Word: languidness
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...Socialist Majesties." But Cambodia, like many pleasant and languid places, is now beset by pressing economic problems. The planned $26 million deficit for this fiscal year has unexpectedly doubled, and the government is so short of cash that the current Five Year Plan is literally out of money. Some $24 million worth of public projects have had to be canceled, and foreign exchange reserves are dwindling at the rate of $1,500,000 a month...
...This mutes their bombast well enough--and one can't in all conscience complain about that: there's entirely too much noise in almost every Shakespeare production--but it seems to be of little avail. With the exception of a few actors, like Mr. Abbott himself (who is the languid and ailing King Edward), or Andreas Teuber (a vital Buckingham, and a perfect Charlie to Pickett's Ev), or Phil Kerr (Harry Richmond), whose skills approach those of Mr. Pickett, none of Richard's enemies is much worth listening...
...Newest Sound Around (Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; RCA Victor). And the strangest. Songstress Lee has a foggy, seductive voice that occasionally strikes interesting effects from such laments as Laura and Lover Man. But for the most part, her pace is too languid. Pianist Blake, on the other hand, is a real find-wry, big-toned, and unfailingly inventive...
...time of the infant Louis XV. With the passing of the young Louis' autocratic father, a reaction had set in against everything grandiose and monumental; nothing could have appealed more to the nobility, so recently released from the blinding authority of the Sun King, than Watteau's languid and worry-free world of harlequins and sultry lovers and frolicking aristocrats. Watteau's shingle for the art dealer Gersaint was apparently done on whim, but it shows him at his most graceful and elegant. Watteau himself boasted of it, and it was one of the last things...
...languid afternoon last week, only a few Muscovites were out on Red Square strolling or feeding the pigeons. Then the peace was shattered as a small crowd bustled into the square shouting "Peace and friendship" in foreign-accented Russian. They bore a poster identifying them as "American-European March San Francisco-Moscow" and pressed handbills onto startled bystanders. The peace marchers from the U.S. had hit town...