Word: languidly
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...lifted and the splendid views were suddenly unshrouded. "Damn it," the President said, "I told them it was going to clear." Like other Golden State boosters, Reagan was rankled that the royal visitors had not been able to see California as it is supposed to be: bright and languid, metaphysically sunny. An aide was ordered,in vain, to radio the royals and bring them back...
...film is an elaborate tribute to Tales from the Crypt and other horror comic books of the early '50s. Five tales play with the theme of moral revenge taken on corrupt humankind by nature, alien forces or the Undead. But the treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. Only the story in which Evil Plutocrat E.G. Marshall is eaten alive by cockroaches mixes giggles and grue in the right measure...
...workout and 45 daily vitamins. At 5 ft. 10 in. and 165 Ibs., Stallone appears slighter in person than he does on the screen. But on the slender legs of a runner resides the torso of Charles Atlas. His face is healthily gaunt: rosy but hollow cheeks guard the languid brown eyes. When the yellow cloth fell from the 8½-ft, $70,000 movie-prop bronze statue, Stallone gazed upon his features on the face of a fiction. That confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading...
...President. "I would be very surprised if he did anything that could be called malfeasance." But one Thompson aide conceded that although the Governor "has not done anything illegal," the accusations of impropriety were damaging "especially when tied to a rotten economy," So Stevenson continues to gain despite his languid campaigning style. The Democrat's coffers, which a few months ago held less than $5,000, are now brimming with $650,000-still less than half the amount the incumbent has raised. White House political operatives acknowledge that Thompson now needs all the help he can get, and they...
...economic hardship is not noticeably high; yet they, like many of the Cambodian children and the Vietnamese to follow, have been starved, brutalized, deprived of companionship, parents, love. It may have something to do with the suddenness of these assaults. Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb. They simply may not have the time to seethe or develop their hatreds. For them the exercise of charity may be an automatic protection, an instantaneous striking back...