Word: languidness
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Then there are eyes, which are mostly an ordinary brown or blue. Sixteen claimed hazel, and 11 said their eyes were a fiery, mysterious green, while three favored languid, limpid grey. Age was probably the most scattered statistic. Although girls today can enlist from 49 down to 20, this batch was 20 to 40 and had birth certificates to prove it. Most were between...
...first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats and the genteel pat of ball against languid strings...
...revolution hit China before Mei-ling hit Wellesley, and her only excitement about it was what she caught from her sister Ching-ling (who later married Dr. Sun). At Wellesley her favorite course was Arthurian Romance. She joined Tau Zeta Epsilon, spoke a languid Southern accent, and was sometimes vivacious, sometimes somber, always neat. Professor Annie K. Tuell, with whom she lived, says: "She kept up an awful thinking about everything." She used to speak eloquently of China's contributions to civilization, and regretted Western neglect of them. But she wrote a friend: "The only thing Oriental about...
...affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product of one of the few authentically creative minds in contemporary music...
Lucky Lover. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo became French writer No. 1, but his home life took a bad turn. Worn out with childbearing, Adèle became languid. Hugo's best friend, waspish Critic Sainte-Beuve, offered her his sympathy, spread the story that he was her lover. Hugo believed his wife innocent but began to get around a little himself. At the rehearsal of one of his plays he noticed that when Actress Juliette Drouet read the line, "Ah, what is it that fills the whole heart?" she turned "her large dark eyes...