languor
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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
The feud between wealthy neighbors is emblematic of the city’s languor when it comes to building anything.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
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
The sensation, as always, was pleasant and induced in him a warm languor, like the feeling he got after sitting too long in front of a hot stove.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
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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
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Alas, Stern makes a better case for the middle-aged languors of Cambridge than for the pleasures of Cynthia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was there that the family received company, and took their siesta during those burning hours when prevailed the mighty zephyr of Africa, laden with languors and storms.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
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