Word: languidness
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...bank's subterranean vaults, and auditors kept combing the records to see if a bookkeeper had erred or a computer had skipped a digit. Finally, with much embarrassment, the bankers called the FBI to report that someone had made off with their greenbacks over the long, languid Columbus Day weekend...
...constantly coming back nowadays, but I must admit that the Yazoo of my truest reality is a languid village on a summer's day of 30 years ago, when one big car whipping through with out-of-state plates was diversion enough. I know what Mark Twain meant when he returned to Hannibal: "I had a sort of realizing sense of what the Bastille prisoners must have felt when they used to come out and look upon Paris after years of captivity and note how curiously the familiar and the strange were mixed together before them...
...most difficult situation for the Communists is in Laos. Most Laotians originally welcomed the Pathet Lao regime that replaced the monarchy in 1975, assuming that their new rulers would be as typically languid as the old ones. But the gray-uniformed Pathet Lao-backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops and 500 Soviet advisers-immediately began building the country according to a socialist blueprint...
...says, and Photographer Francesco Scavullo claims that the "young and exciting fashions in the discos are the only clothes today." Dancing styles have progressed and mellowed. The hustle and the bus stop, the rope and the roach have largely been replaced in the past year by either a languid free-form oscillation or neojitter-bug. There is even an occasional foxtrot, Lindy or waltz-to the 2001 version of the Blue Danube. However the patrons dance, the new discos are designed, says Boston Disco Manager Mark Hugo, to make "everyone feel like a star...
Charleston's clean and narrow streets, cloistered gardens and the pastel colors of its colonial houses readily ratify Menotti's sense of what makes a good set. As the twelve-day festival began last week, the question was whether the exquisitely languid dowager city would prove a worthy audience...