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
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 it was the sadness of an artist, a sadness tinged with languor and a sadness against which his artistry stood out in high relief in a manner that was quite extraordinary.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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