Word: languidness
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...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...screen, boarded the Gripsholm for her first trip to Sweden since 1939. There were rumors that she planned to direct a Swedish picture (she has not played in one for Hollywood since 1941). Demure in a beige suit and hat, she gave reporters only a slow smile, a characteristically languid line: "I'm awfully tired. I had to get up very early this morning...
Even Poetess Naidu found little warmth in Jinnah: "Somewhat formal and fastidious and a little aloof and imperious of manner. . . . Tall and stately, but thin to the point of emaciation, languid and luxurious of habit, Jinnah's attenuated form is the deceptive sheath of a spirit of exceptional vitality and endurance...
...strong, bold stroke than by the most delicate engraving. To expressing them as I felt them, I have paid the utmost attention and, as they were addressed to hard hearts, have rather preferred leaving them hard, and giving the effect, by a quick touch, to rendering them languid and feeble by fine strokes and soft engraving, which require more care and practice than can often be attained, except by a man of a very quiet turn of mind...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...