languorousness

The best way, then, to describe the languorousness of the Narciso Rodriguez show the other night, held in an anonymous black-curtained space, was that it was like a man slowly striking a match and raising it to his cigarette.

One cannot help suspecting that opium played some part in this languorousness,—though there is no evidence that he resumed the habit.

The sight of Irish faces and of Irish scenery and the sound of Irish voices dissipated some Florentine languorousness, and enabled him to set to work spiritedly at his new novel, 'The Martins.'