languor

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

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

Along with stirring up these painful memories, the fall also signals the end of summer’s languor.

Whether nauseatingly explicit or eerily suggestive, the murders shock less for their punishing particulars than for the dreamy languor with which they’re enacted and filmed.

The feud between wealthy neighbors is emblematic of the city’s languor when it comes to building anything.