Word: languidly
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...browns, black, occasionally lit by a flash of red, as in Glasshouse Mountains, 1958; forms are pressed into a flat dense surface (stamped there, you feel, as by a Chinese seal), but the space also folds in and out, shallow and buckling, like a screen. Sometimes the brushstrokes are languid and creamy, but they are interspersed with a stuttering, rough calligraphy that might have been drawn with a twig. The broken grid half-conceals figures and friezes remembered from China, India and Bali, mixed with recollections of marketplaces, rituals and washing days...
...make a go of Hipocracy, the upmarket clothing store they decide to open, is not a compelling one. Shopkeeping cannot compare to moviemaking and murder (The Player's topics) in dramatic interest. Peter and Katherine don't even bicker entertainingly as their marriage collapses; they just drawl withdrawal. The languid self-satisfaction of The New Age, the sense that its maker knows most people will hate it and doesn't care because he's issuing "a personal statement," is its most annoying quality. Don't be suckered. Your first instinct is right. It's a terrible movie...
Harvard's languid start my have also reflected new rules instituted in saber competition this year meant to slow down the action and make play more defensive...
This one comes straight out of the movie "Reality Bites," Where Winona Ryder, playing the class valedictorian, sums up the languid angst of our generation: "The answer is...I don't know...
...album by Pink Floyd that stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks, a listener has a distinct sense of deja vu. Mysterious rumbling noises on Cluster One, the first song, set a cosmic tone, and then comes What Do You Want from Me, with its languid beat and spare, spaced-out ambiance. It all seems reminiscent of the band's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, which sold more than 15 million copies and stayed on Billboard's Top 200 album chart for an astounding 15 years. Given that success, who wouldn't want...