Word: languidness
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...Russian agents are after the stuff. We are now trying to get it to America. The mission is highly dangerous. What we need are fearless, young, patriotic men, willing to work for France." Young (29) Baron Scipion du Roure reflected for an instant on the pallidity of the languid life he had been leading. "Je suis votre homme," said he solemnly...
...lifetime, Gallaudet received little gratitude. A slender, sickly man, he graduated from Yale and the Andover Theological Seminary, but bad health seemed destined to thwart him in everything he tried. He was tormented by doubt ("I am languid, and cold, and slothful ... I am much, very much, too indolent"), and tortured by such weakness that he never dared take over a parish. It was not until he started teaching Alice Cogswell that he knew what his career was really...
...chance to wake and win her with a kiss, and each may choose his own ideal time and place for the trial. Having kidded the colonels, Ustinov now kids their national drama. The Sleeping Beauty is wooed in vain in a French period comedy, an Elizabethan verse-play, a languid bit of Chekhov, a Hollywood melodrama...
...done in tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...
...romantic era, Dubos & Dubos find revealing details of TB's "psychic effects, its influence on behavior and tastes." The ideal of feminine beauty, which the white plague made current, was epitomized by Dumas fils (mourning an ex-mistress) in La Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron before a mirror...