Word: languidly
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Thus the director's problem: one must present a succession of languid scenes without permitting one's own pace to become catastrophically slow. The Harvard Summer Players succeed much of the time, enough to make the evening an enjoyable one and to raise the question of why it isn't better...
...could anyone write on resorts in the U.S. and not mention that heaven called Hawaii? The fantastic beauty of the deep blue-green sea and rugged lava mountains drowned in golden sun! The languid, relaxing atmosphere! The feeling of being far away in a foreign land, yet knowing that this is really another facet of that jewel...
Miss Hill's contribution was a flat, dull translation, far worse than the other one available in paperback. Mr. Mullin, in addition, has his performers speak in a languid, graceful, hightragedy style. The humor is drowned by pauses that have no reason to be there, by lines that are stuttered over by the oh-so-slow manner of speech used by most of the actors...
Mediterranean Holiday. A camel fight in Turkey, the Grand Prix auto race at Monaco, the jet pace of life aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri-La-there are some snappy stretches in this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time...
Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above a heavy, sensuous beat laid down by the rhythm section On alto flute, the mood is more softly introspective, evoking languid afternoons by the sea. The music is easy on the ears, mildly diverting in its melodic simplicity and ease of ap proach. Mann plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone, conscious that "some chicks just come to see me move. They're stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn...