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
Along with stirring up these painful memories, the fall also signals the end of summer’s languor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
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
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
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
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
The languors of conventional love and the plaintive accents of conventional grief suited the powers of the younger Corneille.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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