Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...
...performance in general, however, is less an invitation to lust than to laughter. Miss West's ideas about sex sometimes verge on the impracticable, while her manifestations of it are often a little too gaudy to be glamorous. But the lordly slink and the languid grunt are, for all that, the merely too emphatic mannerisms of an assured and perfected theatrical manner. When, for instance, a new suitor (Steve Cochran) sighs: "My love for you will last forever," it is with genuine mastery of timing and pitch that Miss West inquires: "How about your health?" In any theater world...
...ultimate in their types. The hero is strong, courageous to a fault, and kind to kiddies. The heavy is wealthy, unscrupulous, and abominably clever. A couple of characters like this can make a picture dull under any circumstances, but when the whole improbable business is set in the languid South Seas amid octopi and dancing girls and crusted with miserable dialogue, the boredom reaches epic proportions...
Director William Seiter extracts some dry comedy from the Milquetoastian terror of the little clerk and from Venus' languid, Olympian indifference to the uproar she creates. Dick Haymes has a turn at the songs and Eve Arden is good as a secretary who understands her wolf of a boss all too well...
Just nine years ago, men drinking in languid Paris cafes, staring at the sky from Polish fields, listening to tremulous radios in American living rooms, were afraid of war. Their fears were justified when on Sept. 1, 1939 German bombers started battering Poland to a pulp...