Word: languid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climber, would later devote the bulk of his adult life to composing one of the literary masterpieces of the times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...
...priest, Pat O'Brien is skillful, experienced, and excusably languid. The picture's attractiveness, such as it is, comes from good sets nicely photographed, and from its deeply old-fashioned story and general treatment. But that, in turn, becomes pretty hard to bear; you fully expect a ragamuffin, religiously moved, to whisper Hully Chee...
Satchel Paige figures that in 50-odd years he has pitched at least 2,000 games. Record books in the Negro leagues are mostly blank or spotted pages, but even the authenticated feats of the long (6 ft. 3 in.) and languid Satchel are almost as incredible as the legend...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and an elegant English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and an elegant English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...