languor

First published in Korea in 2015 and recently translated into English by Frances Cha, “Watermelon Pool” unfolds with all the languor of a long summer day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

And this is what Satpathy embodied — now caressing the floor in languor, now twisting herself into knots.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

“Alabama Sky” moves with the languor of a Tennessee Williams drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

For months, I have not writ, having no paper upon which to write and no matter to record; our days passing in the tedium of routine, the languor of inactivity, and the terrors of disease.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

And with this final season coming in two eight-episode tranches, I’m hopeful that we won’t have to worry about the show getting lost in its own languors this time around.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2012

While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alas, Stern makes a better case for the middle-aged languors of Cambridge than for the pleasures of Cynthia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inspiration of the poet, the passion of the lover, the enthusiasm of the martyr, have their languors and shortcomings that often depend on very pitiable material causes.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin