Word: languidness
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...languid, landlocked little Indo-Chinese kingdom of Laos, a man's rank is told by the color of his umbrella.. Old King Sisavang Vong, who reigns in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, rates a white umbrella. Lesser noble fry rate umbrellas of varying hues and sizes. Viceroys, for instance, are entitled to yellow...
Bing Crosby's languid baritone drifted through the University of Omaha field house-"drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall." The brawny, crew-cut young men in T shirts and gym shorts couldn't wait for the shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded...
...Producer Ted Mills never takes his audience on a Baedeker-guided tour. With his Assignment: India, he probed modern India with a cool, relentless subjectivity that has been his trademark since his early days in Chicago's languid, sponge-rubber school of TV. He used the same technique to provide television fans last week with a highly personal film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon...
...message was even sent; 2) the telegram went not to the Sultan but to the U.S. consul in Tangier; 3) it was written by Secretary of State John Hay, who did not mention a cruiser; 4) T. R. used it as a dramatic device to stir up the languid Republican National Convention in Chicago. Adds Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis: "It remained for historians later to discover that Roosevelt knew when he authorized the message that the American citizenship of Perdicaris was questionable...
...will look at other Caravaggios, notably The Musicians recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan [see cut], you will see the same model reproduced in epicene triplicate, and undeniably recognizable as one of the Roman street boys that Caravaggio delighted to paint in languid poses...