How To Use Languid In A Sentence

Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
Effortlessly unravelling the twists and turns of medieval Italian politics, Stonor Saunders is stylish in her prose style, languid in her learning and acerbic in her judgments.
He is a marvellous sight on the course, languid but long. Times, Sunday Times
They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera. Travels through France and Italy

Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
And with a languid snap of his heels, he was off, his curled hair swaying ridiculously on his head.
Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
It is languid, thought provoking and compulsively interesting, but, much like its poster, it won't be the most exciting film at the multiplex.
He was lean and rangy and had an easy-going, languid air about him.
Blending green, rooty vetiver and languid exotic flowers fagraea, tiare, ylang-ylang, the perfumer achieved a striking yang-yin, darkness-light sort of contrast of earthy, practically dirty and creamy-floral notes. Archive 2009-01-01
He's got this languid style but many players over the years have had a style not as dynamic as others. Times, Sunday Times
Fran didn't use deckchairs, just natty old towels upon which she languidly stretched as if she was on a feather bed.
His style was too languid; his physique too bulky. Times, Sunday Times
Sitars fade into pianos into strings over languid hip-hop rhythms, lulling you not only into a sense of warmth and comfort, but also a feeling that you're living in the perpetual summer of your dreams.
This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope.
Slowly: he felt pleasantly languid, a shade hungover still.
The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists.
_Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
Katherine was slightly alarmed by his languid movements.
He raised a languid hand to indicate another questioner. THE SCAR
The languid, sensuous curves of his buildings are defined by the effortless lines that poured from his felt pen. Times, Sunday Times
And that when he was simply seeking an all-round nervous stimulant to bring languid people up to the stresses of these pushful days. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
There's lots of physical comedy: Hillary is an amusingly spastic dancer, frugging her heart out, while Bill has a languid, frat-boy lope that makes him look more Animal House than White House. A Song for Monica
There was nothing here to remind her of the languid, scented warmth of summertime. THE WHITE DOVE
Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches.
[23] The _hermandad_ of Castile had never been countenanced by legislative sanction; it was chiefly resorted to as a measure of police, and was directed more frequently against the disorders of the nobility, than of the sovereign; it was organized with difficulty, and, compared with the union of Aragon, was cumbrous and languid in its operations. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
Take it up where you will, and provided only sufficient time (the reading of a dozen stanzas ought to suffice to any one who has the necessary gifts of appreciation) be given to allow the soft dreamy versicoloured atmosphere to rise round the reader, the languid and yet never monotonous music to gain his ear, the mood of mixed imagination and heroism, adventure and morality, to impress itself on his mind, and the result is certain. A History of Elizabethan Literature
It's a great place for a languid weekend breakfast and an even better spot to peer over the top of a nicely constructed Martini at a nicely constructed companion.
She finally stood up, straightening her dress, as her boyfriend propped his weary, languid body up on his elbows.
He is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
the men languidly put on their jackets
Above them, a small incense burner gives off a languid and heavy, musky scent.
He has wide, feline eyes and a languid, precise way of moving and speaking. Times, Sunday Times
As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic. 1 As the grief of a person in this state occasionally recurs and increases into a paroxysm, spasms affect the respiratory muscles, and he feels as if something, the so-called globus hystericus, was rising in his throat. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
I have been off sick with decidedly dodgy tummy and jelly-like legs, and have lain around the house being languid, playing a small selection of CDs repeatedly and desultorily surfing the internet.
“He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking slowed.” and 2009 Delete Key Awards Finalist #8 — Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Host’ « One-Minute Book Reviews
Twenty-six-year-old Cyrille Aimée, with a voice like fine whiskey -- oaky and smooth, with a hint of smokiness -- offered a languid "Ce soir," caressing the French words, and an aggressive "Summertime," both trailing long strands of vocal roulades. Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocalist Competition 2010 at Kennedy Center
As she coils her long, languid body around a chair, it's plain that the hype isn't misplaced - she has presence to spare.
She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
Time is of small importance when there's a tale to be told, a pint of tar-black stout to be enjoyed and a languid holiday cruising the rivers and lakes of this enchanting isle.
The pace is languid and events too abstract to be a children's movie, yet corny stunts alienate mature viewers.
A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice. Literature
It's not something to greet with languid good manners. Times, Sunday Times
A lovely bribe," languidly, "but don't hurry, for mother and I are leaving to-morrow. The Fighting Shepherdess
Wilder's Wonka had the basic cheerfulness from the book, but was more languid; Willy Wonka on 'ludes. MOVIE REVIEW: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Nothing in his languid, arm-over-the-back-of-the-chair demeanour suggests that he moves with the lightness of a gazelle or handles a rugby ball so well that it appears at times to be soldered to the palm of his hand.
It's not something to greet with languid good manners. Times, Sunday Times
There sat a very large, intricately worked silver tankard, around the base of which languidly lay a thin aristocratic-looking hand.
His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it.
Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement.
With its sumptuous bouquet of sunny neroli, ripe, nectarous rose and jasmine and sweet, powdery violet and iris, and a languid, expansive feel of the composition, Baghari stays true to the grand and insolent spirit of the rest of the Piguet collection. Archive 2007-08-01
As such, treat his Lazy faiLurE to finish it properly as 'languid skill', award a free-kick and await vitriolic abuse both on the pitch with his spit in your face and post-match from behind the safety of a shiny suit with his ratty 'tache hidden behind a foam microphone. You are the Ref: Sian Massey
It has a compelling plot and the languid build up of the romance is a nice thing in this ADD world. Book Review: Twilight | Heretical Ideas Magazine
To whom, add Mortimer Lightwood, coming in among them with a reassumption of his old languid air, founded on Eugene, and belonging to the days when he told the story of the man from Somewhere. Our Mutual Friend
How do you render them incurious and intellectually languid, with only nervous energy and shallow greed to fill the mental vacuum?
These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
When people think of country blues, aka prewar blues - roughly the late 19th century to shortly before World War II - music, their thoughts drift to the hot, languid days of the All articles at Blogcritics
The people who moved in the languid yet haughty movements of the ‘proper’ dances of the day seemed like ghosts to her, ghosts from a world which she did not know.
To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
Everything _inside_ the house limp, languid, and lugubrious; the fires are sulky and won't burn; the maids are sulkier still. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won
Some putter along in a slightly languid and desultory fashion.
Tiny children sit passively by their parents, too weak and languid to play or run around, as cars flash past them.
It is a gentle, almost languid waltz, with a simple melody, and even simpler harmonies and construction.
He was pensively turning one of the pieces in his hand, a crinolined woman wearing a beribboned bonnet languidly weeding a gulden path with a slender hoe. The Lighthouse
Leith is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
My perfect holiday involves changing my pace from frenetic to something much slower and more languid. Times, Sunday Times
A silk screen impression of a heroine from yesteryear sitting in a languid pose declaring her self-awareness is juxtaposed with the modern.
How forcibly does this distinguished jurist illustrate the remark of Cicero in his Treatise on Old Age: "Sed videtis, ut senectus non modo languida atque iners non sit, verum etiam sit operosa, et semper agens aliquid et moliens; tale scilicet, quod cujusque studium in superiore vita fuit. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition
He rose languidly from the broken rail; my brother offered him his shoulder to lean on; he placed the little white hand there, and was led into the house. The Scottish Chiefs
To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
I was lying on the sofa, with a book and a wine-glass, at about that time, when the door opened, and a gentleman in a stiff cravat, within a year or two on either side of thirty, entered, in his hat and gloves; walked up to the looking-glass; arranged his hair; took off his gloves; slowly produced a measure from the uttermost depths of his coat pocket; and requested me, in a languid tone, to "unfix" my straps. American Notes
Then they become very languid and slow and their energy is sapped away because they are running out of blood. Times, Sunday Times
The beast began to walk down the mountain, its massive form possessing a kind of languid grace.
We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber. Times, Sunday Times
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
If we are too relaxed, we become lethargic, wasteful and languid.
The citruses are very prominent on me, but, smelled alongside woods and resins, they appear ripe, nectareous and languid, rather than sparkly, fresh and tangy. Perfume Review: Liz Zorn Grand Canyon
Clothed in black, half reclining on a couch, his elbows resting upon pillows, the Prince was languidly touching the chords of his guitar; he ceased this when he saw the grand ecuyer enter, and, raising his large eyes to him with an air of reproach, swayed his head to and fro for a long time without speaking. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The young librarian helped the fatigued-looking wine into the two glasses, where it lay as if thoroughly exhausted by the effort of getting there, and then languidly left the parlour, turning his bulging head over his shoulder to indulge in a pathetic _oeillade_ ere he vanished. The Prophet of Berkeley Square
It is a feast of boleros delivered with flair by Ferrer, who intuitively conjures up the elegance and languid energy of that post-war singing style.
After numerous half-hearted attempts, he arose one day about noon; then, having eaten a tasteless breakfast and strengthened his languid determination by a stiff glass of "hootch," he strolled out of town, taking he first random trail that offered itself. The Winds of Chance
Never did a monarch hold so steadfastly to a deadly purpose, or proceed so languidly and with so much circumvolution to his goal. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
The trees across the river flapped about in the rising wind, their broad leaves languidly enfolding one another, and then the blessed rain came.
Our Sunday lunches are long and languid affairs. Times, Sunday Times
The languid one commented upon the female fetich, the skirt, and condemned "bloomers," whereupon Glory declared that they were just charming, and being challenged (by a gentleman) for her reasons she said, "Because when a girl's got them on she feels as if she's an understudy for a man, and may even have a chance of playing the part itself in another and a better world. The Christian A Story
Subtle movements include curving languid reaches, then tiny rises onto toes or a shift in torso played out in the individual squares.
His seemingly languid style often gives way to fierce attacks. Times, Sunday Times
She stared languidly at him over her small serving of honeydew melon and toast.
This languid spring day while Conny turned over her mail that lay strewn in disorder on her bed, she apparently had one of her worst fits of dubitation. Together
Despite his languid manner, he is actually incredibly industrious. Times, Sunday Times
Only Sit-aken-te was there, and the lanky young woman waved languidly at Peri from where she was immersed up to her neck in cool water. Aerie
Ponder- It just kind of deliciously pops languidly out of my mouth. Archive 2009-08-01
Indeed, the characterization and dramatics play out like the languid day on a calm blue waterway.
There was every kind of marvelling, beatifical, astonished, profound, gay, austere, amidst unconscious smiles and languid postures of the head. His Masterpiece
Frazer writes, "Here is what the last scene in the film meant, he explained, his four - or five-word declamation a stark and numbing negation of the gentle, almost languid spirit of the film, which invites the audience to its own discovery. Undefined
Then they become very languid and slow and their energy is sapped away because they are running out of blood. Times, Sunday Times
To me he is a natural sweeper, he reads the game well for a young player but at times he is too slow on the ball and a little languid.
‘A show about an accounting report,’ he intoned more loudly, sarcasm entering his languid voice.
I once mentioned a little saweiety sheet, published in New York, under the title of Town Topics, because it afforded me a kind of languid pleasure to kick the feculent sewer-rat back into the foul cloaca from which it had crawled to beslime the ICONOCLAST. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
There was a very slim, languid-looking beauty in a gold sari reclining in the palankeen, another plump piece in scarlet trousers and jacket beside her, and a third, very black, but fine-boned as a Swede, with a pearl headdress that must have cost my year's pay, sitting in a kind of camp-chair alongside - even the ladies 'maid standing beside the palankeen was a looker, with great almond eyes and a figure inside her plain white sari like a Hindoo temple goddess. Fiancée
Putridity, from the avolation of its products, promotes levity, and that in proportion as its increase surpasses that of the general acid; and it is not until the action of the acetous becomes languid, that the putrid process gains the ascendency, when it is then difficult to overcome. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
You sit alone in a bright, comfortable room; the clock ticks companionably; there is no other sound in the world except the constant scratching of your pen, and the occasional far-off puffing of a freight-train coming into Lichfield; there is snow outside, but before your eyes someone, that is not you exactly, arranges and redrills the scrawls which will bring back the sweet and languid summer and remarshal all its pleasant trivialities for anyone that chooses to read through the printed page, although he read two centuries hence, in Nova Zembla .... The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards. At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures
The languid, sensuous curves of his buildings are defined by the effortless lines that poured from his felt pen. Times, Sunday Times
A blue and flickering gleam of light, dim, yet persistent, seemed to enhalo a woman's face; and as Stern's weary eyes opened under languid lids, closed, then opened again, the wounded engineer smiled in his weakness. Darkness and Dawn
The angularity of his original Quintergy contrasts with the languid fluency of the following track, Lament.
Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
The music surrounding this sentiment is gorgeous, a languid ballad in which piano and guitar flirt with a jazzy discursiveness that erupts at various points with a whiplash intensity. The Fiery Furnaces, 'Going Away' From Excess
Thy languid pools where nymphs do bathe; thy bowery banks where naiads bask; thy sweet waters where at dusk the unicorn and aurochs sup. THE CALLIGRAPHER
He greeted Charles with a languid wave of his hand.
He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
On a languid day, maybe a half-dozen little boys or girls would stop in with enough change for an orange soda or maybe just a piece of bubble gum, and Connie would read them a story or show them a story-video as an extra treat.
Perceiving that the tears are hurrying fast, she unpins her strings and throws them languidly backward, a touching gesture, indicative, even in the deepest gloom, of the hope in future dry moments when cap-strings will once more have a charm. VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl
The day had been bright until then, but we'd noticed a bank of fog building up steadily on the outside of the island chain, flopping its forelock languidly over the mountain ridges, waiting for a breeze to give it a leg up.
She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
But aside from esoteric views on what may or may not have been a languid past few years in music the question still remains as to whether the next few will see a worthwhile scene or not.
Once at a cocktail do in one of the vast reception areas where archdukes had cavorted, he languidly asked me to fetch him a canapé.
‘That would be great,’ she said, her voice languid.
Our Sunday lunches are long and languid affairs. Times, Sunday Times
We spent a languid afternoon by the pool.
One day Korea may well reunify, and the journey from Seoul to Pyongyang will be a languid day trip taken by families carrying picnic baskets filled with kimchi.
Mr. King stood one side and watched the endless procession up and down, up and down, the strollers, the mincers, the languid, the nervous steppers; noted the eye-shots, the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never can be called to account for the mischief it does; but not a sound did he hear of the repartee and the laughter. Their Pilgrimage
You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
Very remarkable; fittest, perhaps, for an age fallen languid, destitute of faith and terrified at scepticism.
Laurel waved one hand languidly in the air before pulling a pencil from her bag and jotting notes into a small notepad.
Youths seek out shade under trees and adopt poses of nonchalance, but there is an infectious air of languid excitement for the upcoming performances.
He lay under a languid ceiling fan, a muted Beethoven symphony on the hi-fi just at the threshold of audibility. Wildwood
This Italian island has some of the finest beaches in the Mediterranean and a languid charm that makes it ideal for a relaxing honeymoon. Times, Sunday Times
In one, as yet unnamed piece, a woman sits languidly daydreaming, her leg dangling over John's fireplace.
a languid wave of the hand
Even Bottrigari complained that the continued ban on masks made carnival ‘rather languid’ in contrast to the excited affair it usually was.
She paused in the midst of her languid undressing and leaned against the dark old clothes-press. Adam Bede
Beneath the languid demeanour and the aristocratic drawl was what one of his closest civil service allies called a ‘constructive ruthlessness’.
Spaniard's style is languid but his skills are deadly. The Sun
Could oxygene gas mixed with common air stimulate the languid system? Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber. Times, Sunday Times
Hall shut out from all society, was surprised, at the end of a fortnight to observe, that, instead of expressing discontent, or appearing low-spirited, she every day became more cheerful; and the pale and languid look she wore in The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
His seemingly languid style often gives way to fierce attacks. Times, Sunday Times
Since then my pains have been lessening, and the greater part of this day I have enjoyed perfect ease, only I am totally inappetent of food, & languid, even to an inward perishing. ... [email protected], last modified 5/10/99; standard disclaimer; copyright information. Letter to Thomas Poole
It is used as a stimulant in languid states of the system, and as a sialagogue in paralysis of the tongue and mouth.
They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera. Travels through France and Italy
On "San Bernardino," about a couple who give birth in a bathtub in a highway-side motel, cellist Erik Friedlander sent back a score that layered urgent pizzicato over a languid melodic line. Rock Stories: Mountain Goats
This is enhanced by languid cinematography, capturing scenes of the countryside and the small town in exquisite detail.
For all of its languid sensuality, however, The Dreamers is not a film for the faint-hearted or easily-offended.
I was lying on the sofa, with a book and a wine-glass, at about that time, when the door opened, and a gentleman in a stiff cravat, within a year or two on either side of thirty, entered, in his hat and gloves; walked up to the looking-glass; arranged his hair; took off his gloves; slowly produced a measure from the uttermost depths of his coat-pocket; and requested me, in a languid tone, to 'unfix' my straps. American Notes
a languid mood
‘Good man,’ commented Robert, still training the barrel on the man with a languid manner.
If you have sufficient physical energy but are feeling dull and languid, you need a movement pattern with some creative fire to spark your life force.
The languid, soupy air mass surrounded us and wrapped us in its stifling grip.
While Andrew Melville has other claims on the lasting honour of his countrymen than the part he took in securing for Scotland the ecclesiastical system which has been the most powerful factor in her history, it may be held as certain that where this service which filled his life is disesteemed, his biography, if read at all, will be read with only a languid interest. Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
One is a wiry, intense Chicagoan, the other a languid, slow-talking Southerner.
There seemed no flies to vex him and he was languid with rest. All Gold Cañon
This image, in turn, stood in stark opposition to that of the deformed, graceless, debilitated scoliotic girl and to that of the languid, listless, and useless conspicuous consumptive.
He raised a languid hand to indicate another questioner. THE SCAR
Then, as we travel more slowly through a shallow stretch of marsh, an alligator languidly lifts its body from its perch on a mudbank and slinks slowly into the water. US Gulf coast faces disaster as oil slick threatens to destroy fisheries and wildlife
The Poet's Bridge evokes thoughts of romantic trysts, languid lovers and passionate verses.
59 If the psychical pneuma is too cold, Publicius adds, it cannot cross over to the posterior ventricle, thus rendering the memory "dull and languid. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
We all knew of the FO's Arabist bent, and imagined impossibly languid public schoolboys, besotted with T.E. Lawrence and Arab boys, and hating everything Jewish (alibied as anti-Zionism). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
His style was too languid; his physique too bulky. Times, Sunday Times
I always associate Latin American music with languid days and sunshine.
To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
To me he is a natural sweeper, he reads the game well for a young player but at times he is too slow on the ball and a little languid.
Against all expectations, it seems that it actually works to cast languid funster Owen Wilson as a serial killer who moves in mysterious ways.
I'd never seen her flustered or hurried, so that her movements were always languid.
'My adored Mrs. Arlbery!' cried he, (hoisting himself upon the shop counter, and swinging a switch to and fro, with a languid motion) 'your maxims are all of the first superlative, except this; but nobody's civil now, you know; 'tis a fogramity quite out.' Camilla
Sometimes it becomes epidemic, and assumes a languid or typhoidal cast, -- not Positivism, but Agnosticism. The History of Dartmouth College
Personally, I didn’t mind him – even though his languid vowels and premature jowliness not to mention the absurd tailored safari jacket he wore all the time with a check Viyella shirt gave him a certain cartoonish quality. A Special Relationship
The immense dumbbell-shape drew closer, almost languidly there out a wide-focus tractor beam, and anchored our two ships together.
Everywhere women were hard at work, hanging out washing, harvesting, shelling walnuts, building hayricks or even making mud bricks to bake in the sun while the men stood about chatting languidly in every village or squatted together at the roadside wearing their traditional tall Kyrgyz hats of embroidered felt, the ak kalpak, or the ornate pillbox hats of the Uzbeks. Wildwood
Not only is it one of south Ayrshire's favourite places to eat, but as it's within a five-minute stagger of the Troon Yacht Haven, it is a well-known stopping-off point for the more languid sort of gentleman yachties.
They lay in beauteous sleep upon the bosom of the ocean, in colouring half intense, half languid, like the tints of the dog-rose and wild violet. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
His speech - marked with the hint of a drawl, languid like a stretching cat - was punctuated with another chuckle.
But listen hard and you'll hear an attention to detail belied by the languid grace of Le Fumeur de Ciel.
But if these combined to pull out the winner, the real stars of the show were the ageless Tommy Turner, mopping up languidly at the back, and Ricky Gillies and Hugh Murray dominating in midfield.
He is still a charming talker who looks you straight in the eye as he languidly spins out his stories about growing up in Mexico, which he considers his spiritual home.
Bobby spoke the languid, slangy version of English that was developing in the islands ' yeasty cultural and linguistic stew. EDEN BURNING
Two eagle rays came swimming towards us with languid grace.
He worked on architecture at Fontainebleau, and cast the large semicircular bronze relief of the languid Nymph of Fontainebleau, surrounded by beasts.
An old school report marked Clary down as ‘languid and superior’.
_Oui -- oui -- oui_," he continued with a languid drawl, as he drew tighter his lavender gloves, and twirled his tiny cane. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
Spaniard's style is languid but his skills are deadly. The Sun
Without the frisson of danger, however, Brown's illusion was about as compelling as a languid afternoon spent bending spoons.
Her sandy tabby eyed her languidly from the typewritten sheets she had elected to stretch out on. MURKY SHALLOWS
And the next shot is exactly that of a languid, exquisitely shaped flower which picks up and repeats the outline of the bound foot.
If Eno is a British Barthes, a languid sensualist, Ballard would be a British Bataille. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted. In All Her Infinite Variety
He raised a languid hand to indicate another questioner. THE SCAR
This Italian island has some of the finest beaches in the Mediterranean and a languid charm that makes it ideal for a relaxing honeymoon. Times, Sunday Times
The embodied capacity to write and draw seems to rule over the languid group of objects underneath.
Sandalwood and frankincense in the base enhance both the fresh-green-dry and the creamy-ripe-languid sides of the rose, its fragile crystallinity and its heady intensity. Archive 2008-10-01
Their ardor is their crown, before which the languid and the passive bow. Pushing to the Front
Sensibility, and the like, which recalled the syrupy sweetness and languid trickle of Laura Matilda's sentimentalities. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The incredible summer heat and humidity made us all feel languid.
The way she's kind of languidly making the point with her right index finger is priceless! Posthuman Blues
Her sandy tabby eyed her languidly from the typewritten sheets she had elected to stretch out on. MURKY SHALLOWS
We interrupt this languid Sunday afternoon for an announcement of considerable import.

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