languor

Liu’s Dominique sometimes loses patience and cuts through the languor with some common sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.

From Time Magazine Archive

They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera.

From Time Magazine Archive

But once out in the open, and tramping along a country road, we breathed deeper of an air clean enough to dispel town-bred languors.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson