Word: languidly
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...played all the notes and played them beautifully, and listeners heard unfamiliar details, but somehow the music failed to billow and surge. It was as if a dry land breeze were blowing over Debussy's sea that day. Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony suffered similarly: the fragrant resonances, the languid rubatos and the snarling brasses were there, but the fantasy was hard to find...
...begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief, only to grow steadily more sober in tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...
...requirement that each public school system display good faith in its efforts to bring segregation to a close, and the power given Federal courts to act against any school board obviously obstructing desegregation, keep the new ruling from being classed as an actual retreat. The new period of languid desegregation, the Court evidently feels, is better than certain tension and possible large-scale defiance of its order...
...Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician, he is an un-Thaipically lively, dynamic leader of a languid, gentle people...
...left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music. Some of his work was jungly, some languid as a slow samba. Villa-Lobos became famed as one of the century's most brilliant composers. Last week, a half century after his first jungle excursion but still a restless wanderer, Composer Villa-Lobos turned up as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced to Manhattan two recent...