Word: languidness
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...into hurling, razorlike shards. Plaster crashed down from ceilings, doors blew in, walls bulged. The lights went out. All over town, the clocks stopped at 7:26. River mud, coal and metal fragments hurtled down from the sky. From the docks a huge mushroom cloud rose grey-white and languid...
...young novelist, Lamkin has put his story in the words of a middle-aged man. Henry has grown up with the Richardsons, as one of their "poor cousins." All his life he has lived in the double shadow of the Richardson grandeur and his own mother. In a languid, casual prose that reflects his own insipidity, Henry tells his cousins' story, while he himself is changing from an absolute disciple of the noble Richardson myth to a disillusioned old bank clerk who decries its "false majesty...
...true that Tiger in the Garden is made up of old ingredients: miscegenation, aristocratic drunks and flowerlike ladies, languid Southern talk and fiery Southern tempers. By now any writer, even Faulkner, can use them only at the risk of flirting with caricature. It is nonetheless to Author Lamkin's credit that he has almost succeeded in bringing an old story to life and already writes well enough to handle...
...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...
...ultimate in their types. The hero is strong, courageous to a fault, and kind to kiddies. The heavy is wealthy, unscrupulous, and abominably clever. A couple of characters like this can make a picture dull under any circumstances, but when the whole improbable business is set in the languid South Seas amid octopi and dancing girls and crusted with miserable dialogue, the boredom reaches epic proportions...