How To Use Languor In A Sentence

Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.

I feel languorous about my world, and of my position and importance in it.
After a few minutes I saw a green light winking languorously at me, and realised that his main computer was on sleep mode.
He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again?
Jezrael's body arched languorously; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar.
The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing.
Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor.
He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose. The Most Beautiful Show In The World
Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle. Mary Barton
Aeneidi summam manum, statuit in Graeciam et in Asiam secedere triennioque continuo nihil amplius quam emendare, ut reliqua vita tantum philosophiae vacaret: sed cum ingressus iter Athenis occurrisset Augusto ab oriente Romam revertenti destinaretque non absistere atque etiam una redire, dum Megara vicinum oppidum ferventissimo sole cognoscit, languorem nactus est eumque non intermissa navigatione auxit, ita ut gravior aliquanto Brundisium appelleret, ubi diebus paucis obiit xi. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
Lying there beside her, he was filled with an agreeable languor.
We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Beautiful in Sounds
Languor was still upon the eyes of the dawn, and the dew in the air.
Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults.
Then it was prairie again, to the heel of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and since all this had recently been Mexican territory, there were more olive faces than white in the little settlements, and that unwashed languor inseperable from dagoes began to pervade the scene. Isabelle
He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
The consequences of the strength of the political spirit are not all direct, nor does its strength by any means spring solely from its indulgence to the less respectable elements of character, such as languor, extreme pliableness, superficiality. On Compromise
We learned the difference between mastodons and mammoths and admired their sturdy columnar legs, but given our languor, we resembled nothing so much as the giant sloth.
Yes, says Black, settling in comfortably to the languor of the moment, a number of very curious stories.
They proceeded onward: the earthly Paradise was unfolded to their view; the air was balmy, and laden with rich fragrance from the numberless flowers around; but instead of filling the spirit with soft languor, and indisposing the body to exertion, the gentle breezes imparted new vigor to the frame, and the buoyant, hilarious feelings of early youth shot through the veins, making the thoughtful eye sparkle, and giving to the grave foot of saddened maturity the elasticity of childhood. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before.
A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings). NYT > Home Page
I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
For the non-appearance of satisfaction is suffering; the empty longing for a new desire is languor, boredom.
The sheer tropical languor seeps into your bones as soon as you arrive at the tiny airport. Times, Sunday Times
Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
One of Arthur's sparks of kindly feeling awoke when he beheld his once handsome, high-spirited sister, altered and wrapped up, entering the room with an invalid step and air; and though she tried to look about in a bright 'degage' manner, soon sinking into the cushioned chair by the window with a sigh of languor. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.
I merely cut the seal and gave it to her; she opened it and read it herself, afterwards she gave it me to read, and then talked to me a little and not uncheerfully of its contents, but there was then a languor about her which prevented her taking the same interest in anything she had been used to do. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays. The Beautiful and Damned
The narrow, pulsating streets of Pinar proved the exception to the province's otherwise sleepy languor.
he was sprawling languorously on the sofa
And sitting here surrounded with roses and with that languorous lilt in her ear, Crystal felt as if she too were under the influence of some unseen Mesmer, who had lulled the activity of her brain into a kind of wakeful sleep even while her senses remained keenly, vitally on the alert. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
Each time it came, with its soft beauty, its languor of sweetness -- like a word reclining -- it flayed her soul alive, and showed her red, raw bareness. The Woman with the Fan
She held her head proudly and, even before she moved, conveyed a feline quality of grace and languor.
Lelord - the 57-year-old writer whose own smile exudes a kind of languorous wisdom - would never have been able to write his bestselling French novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, at such a tender age. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent.
Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.
In Pauline this finesse was partially concealed by a languor and indecision of manner and an occasional assumption of 'niaiserie'; or almost infantine simplicity; but this only threw people the more off their guard, and made her finesse the more sure in its operation. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Juliet's coltish, little girl steps soon slink, like Prokofiev's undulating score, into something languorous and self knowing enough to convince us she is now a woman in love.
She, in her languor, had not troubled to eat much.
She gave way to listless languor. North and South
They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow cornfields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow. The Wind in the Willows
There is the obvious connection, as I see it, to lifestyle and aspiration, but whereas Nascar says fast food to me, Mercedes Benz says "slower" food -- hence the all-star line up of languorous dishes and libations. Rozanne Gold: Fast Track: Cars and Food
It has the same languorous sense of vast skies and unhurried pace.
Snail mating is a slow, languorous process, but it also involves some heavy weaponry.
Gentle brush strokes on a snare drum and soft, lilting vocals are all well and good, but pure pleasantness is apt to fall into the category of being dangerously languorous.
With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments.
The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing. DANSVILLE
He saw it in her lovely eyes, the delicious downcast look she gave, so languorous, so seductive. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The second movement is even more luscious, with languorous harmony and much lyrical writing for divided strings supported by a shimmering texture of harps and celesta.
If I had the same kind of languorous pleasure in writing that my younger brother has or that, say, Eudora Welty has, who just gets up with a light in the eye, thinking, "My God, this is a day in which I write," then I could answer your question with a greater sense of hedonism. Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow corn-fields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow. The Wind in the Willows
Indulge your taste buds in an ambrosial meal prepared by a creative Hawaiian chef, then take a long languorous walk, arm in arm, along the beach.
He was reckless to the uttermost stretch of recklessness, all serene and quiet though his pococurantism and his daily manner were; and while subdued to the undeviating monotone and languor of his peculiar set in all his temper and habits, the natural dare-devil in him took out its inborn instincts in a wildly careless and gamester-like imprudence with that most touchy tempered and inconsistent of all coquettes -- Fortune. Under Two Flags
The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish.
The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing. DANSVILLE
Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. On the Sublime and Beautiful
All those long, languorous movements, eyes locked, bodies welded at the breast, legs entwining whew!
A woman, reclining on a green chaise longue, wears a rose peignoir, its ostrich collar languorously open.
The sea breezes, the tropical languor, that old susegad, had conspired to make Goa an oriental fleshpot.
Incapable of finding any satisfaction in mercenary intrigues, they succumb to an indefinable sort of languor, which is called home-sickness, though, in reality, love with them is indissolubly associated with their native village, with its steeple and vesper bells, and with the familiar scenes of home. Recollections of My Youth
But even if population density is regarded as a reason for India's economic languor, it cannot be justified.
Such [28] transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed.
Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow
They remove their clothes with clinical languor. Times, Sunday Times
Original sin is accordingly called the languor of nature. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
She dances like the moonlight -- light, languorous, aswoon. Perpetual Light : a memorial
The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
So Virginia, Laura and Clarissa demonstrate a metempsychosis, a transmigration of souls; the languor of their private breakdowns are cousins to each other.
a hot languorous afternoon
It is a taste for languor, the grotesque and the bizarre.
Only days before he had been duetting fabulously as pianist with Joyce DiDonato at the Gramophone Awards in a languorous version of "Over the Rainbow", on balance a piece that does bear frequent repetition though I can see I may regret that remark. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
Cases of too frequent nocturnal emissions accompanied by languor and headache are usually caused by irritability or lack of tonicity of the sexual apparatus, particularly of the seminal vesicles and the ducts. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
Bob Bowman, longtime coach of swimming phenom Michael Phelps, was once asked why Phelps did not swim the languorous distance sets that were part of some other competitors' regimens.
When necessitated by pain and languor to limit her exertions, her unfeeling employers accused her of negligence. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor.
Sometimes both the languor and the silence are overdone.
She was robed in the costliest of raiment and decked with ornaments the most precious that could be and withal she was of passing beauty and loveliness, a model of symmetry and seemliness, of elegance and perfect grace, with waist slender and hips heavy and dewy lips such as heal the sick and eyelids lovely in their languor, as it were she of whom the sayer spake when he said, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Disease, languor, doubt, carelessness, laziness, sensuality, delusion, impotency and instability are the obstacles that distract the mind.
O thou wine-comrade languor cease to show; * Hand me the morning draught and ne'er foreslow; Arabian nights. English
Theodore lavished on every day inexhaustible fioriture of enjoyment, and he delighted to vary the transports of passion by the soft languor of those hours of repose when souls soar so high that they seem to have forgotten all bodily union. At the Sign of the Cat & Racket
As Kama's nectared goblet steeps in languor human souls; Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Orie
Reaching back, I held my body in a languorous stretch.
Her eyes, as she raises them, have the hazy, dreamy languor, which is so characteristic of the mixed races. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
He is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
Then, too, the greenfinch is overtaken by happy languor, and falters in her flight, smitten with the April madness. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
There had been one sound, only one: the slow outrush of air, like a languorous sigh. Dance Of Death
In the rose garden was an arbour smothered in riotous bloom, and in the arbour was a divan, wide and low and voluptuously soft, meet for the repose of an invalid on a languorous afternoon, or indeed any other time. The Definite Object A Romance of New York
a barrenness, — if it be more condensed, or more thin, or more hardened, or more callous, or more carneous; or it may be from languor, or from an atrophy or vicious condition of body; or, lastly, it may arise from a twisted or distorted position. Essays and Miscellanies
Finn wouldn't be able to sit at languorous dinner parties and trail his long, skilful fingers round the top of his wine glass any more. JUST BETWEEN US
The air had grown balmier of late, and despite his recent agitation, he felt a kind of languor creep upon him. EVERVILLE
Let's be honest: For most travelers, Honolulu has always been about sunning and swimming along the languorous crescent of golden sand that is Waikiki.
And eke, for ignorance, I deemed thy love an easy thing, Thy love in which the noblest souls for languor are forspent; The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
I beheld a damsel, white as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows twain and languorous lids of eyne, breasts like pomegranates twin and dainty, lips like double carnelian, a mouth as it were the seal-of Solomon, and teeth ranged in a line that played with the reason of proser and rhymer, even as saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He would weave through matches, languorously elegant amid the midfield frenzy.
The whole of the dramatic music of the eighteenth century must naturally have appeared cold and languid to men whose minds were profoundly moved with troubles and wars; and even at the present day the word languor best expresses that which no longer touches us in the operas of the last century, without even excepting those of Mozart himself. The Great Italian and French Composers
Cujus fanum aegrotantium multitudine refertum, undiquaque et tabellis pendentibus, in quibus sanati languores erant inscripti. Anatomy of Melancholy
Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’.
Cleishbotham had "opined," and hence comes a languor which does not beset the story of "Old Mortality. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
She is an immaculately dressed despot with a languorous voice and tiny white buttons along the cuffs of her black, leg-of-mutton sleeves. The House of Bernarda Alba – review
The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics.
No, I hadn't come to the Catalan capital for Gaudí, but rather for the seductive mix of languor and classy urbanism that has led Barcelona to be dubbed the southernmost city of northern Europe. Undefined
A previously neutral note might gain an accent or portamento stress as the mood momentarily wakens into passion or leans into languor.
But his long face had nothing of that languor which is associated with long cuffs and manicuring in the caricatures of our own country. The Complete Father Brown
All the burden of the day -- the heat, the languor, the scorching thirst of the fields, the brazen blue of the sky, the stillness as of a suspended breath which wrapt the town -- all these things had passed into the intolerableness of his desire. Virginia
The languor of sleep being still upon him, he lazily watched the quivering of a sunbeam that was caught in the canopying boughs above. Flip, a California romance
My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along.
With its lines of dialogue being few and far between, and its long, vast shots of the golden deserts and the cold white mountains, the film can be accused of languor, and even self-indulgence, at moments.
the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor
This soft palette accentuates the dreamy, languorous quality of the story and makes this film one of the most visually elegant of early three-strip Technicolor works.
The tonal similarities of the two actors lead to some fascinating byplay, and he structures the piece as a series of surprises and sharp contrasts: a languorous song suddenly gives way to ecstatic dancing or bright chatter.
Trip-hop is simply a kind of languorous pop music that learned in general from hip-hop, but also from lots of other types of experimental and even academic music that you don’t need real instruments to make music. Disquiet » Electronica for Dunderheads
An intricate, languorous game in which stones are moved on a board, Go is largely unknown outside Japan and parts of China.
With this melancholy account he left the room; and soon after her ladyship entered, with an air of interesting languor, and most attractingly dressed in an elegantly deshabille, of fine muslin, trimmed with beautiful lace. Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families
It is true that нега has two distinct nuances: voluptuous languor and simple enjoyment; but, instead of using any of the obvious equivalents, Mr. Nabokov has dug up from the dictionary the rare and obsolete mollitude, a word which his readers can never have encountered but which he uses for the first of these meanings; and for the second he has discovered dulcitude. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
To be in with this kind of jetsetting, decadently languorous, transatlantic, nightclubbing in-crowd with their cheekbones and polo shirts. Times, Sunday Times
The nugget of a good album resides within the languor and the lassitude presented here.
Not without its playfulness and deadpan jokes, the uprooted Malay setting serves for a far more morose, empty and searching film, one whose suffusion with the dripping evening heat, lumberingly slow bodily movement, and general languor serve out the dance between the immigrants in a kind of humid, sorrowful slow motion. GreenCine Daily: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone.

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