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

Gone are the formal banquets of saffron-stained, rose-scented languor — and the protein-bar and light-beer cravings of the American contractors who roamed the secure confines of Kabul’s Green Zone diplomatic enclave.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

But then I remember that brief moment in the sun, the power of startling that deer, the delicious languor from a full belly, and it’s like the choice was made before we even started barking.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard workers are nearly all long lived, but the sons and daughters of rest pass away from the scene, not of their labors, but of their languors, rather early, as a rule.

From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh