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
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
In a 1936 speech to young people, President Franklin Roosevelt, dismissing experts proclaiming 1930s youth as “lost” to anxiety, depression and lassitude, declared that young people were right to be unhappy.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
Some historians speculated that the 19th century’s fin de siècle might actually have been lassitude caused by sequelae of the Russian flu.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
It was not a physical fatigue—he went to the gym regularly and felt better than he had in years—but a draining lassitude that numbed the margins of his mind.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing lassitude
Frankenstein
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