languor

Example Sentences

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For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

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

Not coincidentally pro football only took off as a national sport during the late ’50s and ’60s when it embraced television, which marketed football’s brutality as a counterweight to baseball’s languor.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

It was a trio for hyper-violin, super-cello and oboe-surrogate that now filled the air with its agreeable languor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley