lassitude
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And it carried an implicit warning: If America ever ceases to be as Hilda—godly, uncompromising, moral, dutiful and good—the moss-covered lassitude of Hawthorne’s Rome awaits us too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
His tone, however, belied the lassitude of a man who increasingly struggles to hide his age behind all that makeup.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
There were moments during my screening at which I thought I was attending an exorcism; the movie makes you feel thrown by the power of cinema to shake us out of our lassitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024
That lassitude has created a real shortage of goodwill in Albany, and few are going to feel that they owe Hochul a favor in getting her nominee across the finish line.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2022
They all lounged in glamorous lassitude on the sofa, and on the rug, while heavy rock, which Ifemelu thought was unharmonious noise, played on the CD player.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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