Word: languidness
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Aristotle observed that "drunken and harebrained" women most often had children like themselves, "morose and languid." Eighteenth-century British physicians reported that drinking gin led not only to the widespread debauchery of the time-which was vividly depicted in Hogarth's etchings-but also to a spate of "weak, feeble and distempered children." Modern medicine has only recently confirmed the ancient folklore. Alcoholic mothers often do bear children with a host of birth defects: skull and facial deformations, defects in the cardiovascular system and mental and physical retardation...
...your imagination.") McCarthy, as the arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult job; by the end of the play, all the male characters are pledging her their undying devotion, she plays the part with the languid voice of Joan Greenwood and the elegant mannerisms of Maggie Smith, but it's only during her solos--particularly the hauntingly beautiful "Someone To Watch Over Mc"--that her character develops the necessary magnetic appeal. Both Witham and McCarthy have excellent voices, and their duets are some of the high...
...LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS by Gordon Hendricks. 367 pages. Grossman. $45. A graceful and sympathetic, if somewhat languid biography of the famous Philadelphia artist, individualist, teacher (1844-1916). There is some interesting new material including excerpts from Eakins' own remarkably direct and often charming letters and from contemporary newspaper clippings...
Whether they belong to begrimed children in Pennsylvania coal mines, languid prostitutes in the New Orleans redlight district, or impassive Navajos on horseback in the Southwest, they collapse the distinction between then...
Ideal Somnambulism. At one stroke, Moreau was canonized as a patron saint of dandyism and decadence, the father of symbolist art. His canvases, exotic in their spurts and blooms of color, are populated by pale androgynous youths and languid women encased, like scarab beetles, in glittering carapaces of emerald and embroidery. Such pictures were hailed as setting the tone of an entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual...