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

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

From New York Times • May 16, 2022

For the first time we noted the clarity of her complexion, the length and languor of her eyelashes, the undeniably elegant armature of her hands.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri