languor

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

It was a trio for hyper-violin, super-cello and oboe-surrogate that now filled the air with its agreeable languor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

That deeper hour when Night with Dawn is blent, And Silence stirs, its languors well-nigh spent, I hear her gently sigh with sweet content.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page