Word: languidness
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They follow the lead of Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984), which targeted as its audience the cinema intelligentsia bored with both the languid pace of European festival films and the exhausted formulas of Hollywood. These moviegoers want a little kick with their chic. To their rescue ride the art- house outlaws...
...knocking off a diverting lyric with "You're the One for Me, Fatty." In this song he beseeches his obese sweetheart to "say if I'm ever in your way..a-hey,-a HAAAAY." He really wallows in the line, and the song offers hope that his old languid wail may not be gone for good...
Appiah speaks softly in a British accent, and is immensely understated about his background and his achievements. Most of the time he talks at a languid, thoughtful pace, but occasionally the words rush out in the sort of complex sentences most people can only compose with pen and paper in hand. Talking about his years as an undergraduate at Cambridge University, he shows a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor...
...Frustrated, the crowd moved on to an unprotected Thrifty drugstore a block away, which they proceeded to strip. The police waited patiently at Vons until the looters began leaving Thrifty and then -- and only then -- did they move in with sirens blaring to "secure" the area. Meanwhile, in this languid, but lethal, game of cat and mouse, the mob moved three blocks down the street to attack a Find It All electronics store. The police waited from the safety of Thrifty before finally moving to try to capture the last few stragglers at the Find It All store. The police...
...delicate melody-lines are lovingly phrased by Watkinson, and Wilson audibly revels in the remarkably independent keyboard writing. The fortepiano passages contain moments of intense, near-pictorial portraiture, such as in the "Sailor's Song" and in "Fidelity," which speaks of "rushing winds" and the "tempests." There are also languid moments of introspection, most notably in the "Spirit's Song," "She Never Told her Love" (the setting of Shakespeare) and "The Wanderer...