Word: languidness
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...Idler's production has managed, despite certain technical limitations, to capture admirably the pervading spirit of the play. Algernon, the most difficult and yet most rewarding role, was happily cast in Carleton C. Brower, whose languid voice and expressive features lent excellent emphasis to Wilde's epigrams; while Cathleen O'Conor was exquisitely amusing as the sharp-tongued, lofty Lady Bracknell. Other notable performances were John Jay Hughes' harried Worthing, Elaine Limpert's highly decorous Miss Prism, and Seabury Quinn's limp and sanctimonious Canon Chasuble. Anna A. Prince, Jr. was, despite a certain tendency toward overplaying, a charming...
...sensitive U.S. censor also frowned on a sentimental ditty called Chinese Night and threw it out for being suspiciously popular. The Japanese smiled, and wondered whether U.S. authorities would be more successful than their generals, who tried to stamp it out during the war because it was "too languid...
Called a "Portrait of America," its 20 prizewinners painted languid river and country scenes, flower vases, Negroes at play. Only one of them even hinted that the U.S. had been...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist Anthony Trollope. In a series of novels (including the best-selling The Brandons and Northbridge Rectory}, Author Thirkell has peopled Barsetshire with 20th-Century "descendants" of Trollope's squires, rural deans, bluebloods, housemaids and self-made men - all of whom breathe an air of whimsy, nostalgia and laconic...