Word: languidness
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...houses so completely furnished and air conditioned and wired for sound and insulated from the outdoors that the people inside seemed in danger of becoming merchandise too." So he sought freedom, and his true self, by traveling to humanity''s cradle, the Middle East. In Beirut, languid young Lebanese reclined amid cushions and asked him to explain their country to them because it was so "baffling." In Jordan, Knowles was lionized by King Hussein, and titillated by the prospect that he might lend a hand in writing the royal autobiography (a Briton got the job). Knowles pushed...
...funny. Path of Dalliance is modeled on the same book, but is a bore. The trouble seems to be that Auberon has become a little bored with his father's titled ghosts, and he somehow never puts them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...
...Seltzer as Leontes conveys a king's madness with convincing variations of tone. As laughter echoing through the palace seems to mock him, Seltzer's Leontes assumes an insane jealousy which if unfounded is nonetheless real. And from the harsh imperatives and angular poetry of winter to the more languid verse of a summer's resignation and remorse, he is often evocative and always controlled...
...poet, has lived quite comfortably alongside abstraction, profiting from its lessons although he was obscured by its critical acclaim. A major influence on his art was Willem de Kooning, who urged him to paint the whole of his canvas rather than isolated images. Porter does, spreading across his works languid, idyllic colors that seem to be dreams of bygone childhood...
...sites are carefully zoned and restricted to prevent what Darlington refers to as "creeping urbanization." Creeping cuteness has already engulfed the development, which boasts such street names as Languid Lane and Nonchalant Road. Ho Hum Drive separates into Ho Street and Hum Street. The bank is on Wampum Way. The main drag, naturally, is Easy Street...