How To Use Languorous In A Sentence
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There had been one sound, only one: the slow outrush of air, like a languorous sigh.
Dance Of Death
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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.
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The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish.
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The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing.
DANSVILLE
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All those long, languorous movements, eyes locked, bodies welded at the breast, legs entwining whew!
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A woman, reclining on a green chaise longue, wears a rose peignoir, its ostrich collar languorously open.
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She dances like the moonlight -- light, languorous, aswoon.
Perpetual Light : a memorial
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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.
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a hot languorous afternoon
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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
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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.
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Reaching back, I held my body in a languorous stretch.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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He would weave through matches, languorously elegant amid the midfield frenzy.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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An intricate, languorous game in which stones are moved on a board, Go is largely unknown outside Japan and parts of China.
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To be in with this kind of jetsetting, decadently languorous, transatlantic, nightclubbing in-crowd with their cheekbones and polo shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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I feel languorous about my world, and of my position and importance in it.
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After a few minutes I saw a green light winking languorously at me, and realised that his main computer was on sleep mode.
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Jezrael's body arched languorously; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar.
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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
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A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings).
NYT > Home Page
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Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
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Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
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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
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he was sprawling languorously on the sofa
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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It has the same languorous sense of vast skies and unhurried pace.
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Snail mating is a slow, languorous process, but it also involves some heavy weaponry.
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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.
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The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing.
DANSVILLE
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He saw it in her lovely eyes, the delicious downcast look she gave, so languorous, so seductive.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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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.
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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
