Word: languidness
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...march off. A rock crashed into one Negro's chest. Pop bottles and cherry bombs filled the air. Scores of whites surged off the sidewalks and waded into the column with clubs, knives and fists. When some young Negroes began hitting back, the local cops, until then languid spectators, broke it up. "We got to go back," said a shaken King afterward. "This is the meanest town in the country." The marchers did return under heavy police guard, but they also learned that Mississippi had another town to rival Philadelphia for meanness...
...Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with so exquisitely balanced an intellect that once, arriving for an evening party at a house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending by one side or the other. In France...
...some of the suits do not seem just the thing for setting Olympic swimming records, it merely goes to show that the '66 suits are less for the sea than the seeing. In a few, swimming is risky. And languid sunbathing is out, unless one does not mind oddly placed swatches of brown or being crosshatched under the net. If a tan is what you want, advises Vogue, that is something "to do first, naked...
...Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family's fortress of unreality...
...problem seems to me to revolve around the multi-leveled plot. Every character has a carefully plotted relationship to every other, a relationship often twisted by family ties and past animosities. If a production succeeds, every line crackles with the meaning behind it; the languid pace becomes for the audience, as it is for the characters, a veil that covers a nest of suspense...