Word: languidness
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...members of his patrol were shot dead in an ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward an elementary school; the next, they were getting fired at by strangers who then vanished into the forest like ghosts. Now, at the once languid station where patrolmen used to doze in the midday heat, officers cradle their assault rifles and eye every visitor with tense suspicion. "We're all pretty spooked," says Marohsae...
...awful, seasonally ubiquitous Christmas songs, and Will has lived on the royalties ever since, never holding a job, never marrying, never doing anything with his life but shooting pool, getting his hair done and chasing babes. As islands go, he thinks he's Ibiza, where the emotional climate is languid but you can always find a disco to jump-start a night that looks as if it might loom a little too long...
...usually follows prolonged abuse? True, a few sharpies?William Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, maybe Terry Southern?have managed to pull it off. But most drug memoirs are pretty much alike?either they're heated Hunter S. Thompson rip-offs packed with hackneyed hallucinations (bats, lizards) and heavily-punctuated (!!!!) rants, or languid diaries from naive dopers whose dreamy visions seem as dangerous as an overdose of marshmallows...
...languid luxury on a grand scale that is the hotel's true charm. Rhapsodies about "stepping back in time" or "charming colonial style" tend to ignore that the people actually colonized may not share this nostalgia. Still, that?like most everything else?is easy to forget at the Galle Face. Whether taking tea at sunset or dining as surf crashes beyond manicured lawns, it's hard to overlook another fact: those darned imperialists had exquisite taste...
Come Away with Me is mostly an album of warm, languid pop songs. There are touches of jazz--a stand-up bass here, an offbeat drum there--but Jones' voice doesn't have the rogue spirit required for improvisation or the range for sudden emotional bursts. Her singing is beautiful, but her pacing and delivery owe a greater debt to pop artists like James Taylor and Carole King than to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone. Of course, that could change. Jones is so new to her career that her recent influences leave fresh imprints. "I'm into country...