Word: languidness
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...recalled that Shah Ahmad has been leading a notoriously languid and luxurious existence in Europe for the past two years. For him to evince sufficient interest in Persian affairs even to "vehemently protest" is something of an event...
...Metropolitan opens its history with Adolphe Menjou in "The King on Main Street" an amusing and sophisticated farce on the troubles of Kings and things in general. Menjou lifts a supercilious eyebrow, shrugs a careless shoulder, and winks a languid eye with all the nonchalance generally associated with Kings. His affair with the Swedishly attractive Gretta Nisson has all the clever subtlety that made "The Marriage Circle" popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there...
Hawkes, paired with Miss Kathleen McKane of England, defeated Richards and Miss E. H. Harvey of England for the mixed doubles championship in a languid exhibition match...
...Americans grinned, thought of the parades of the Veiled Prophets (see Page 25) which they had often witnessed in the U. S. That sort of thing was admirable for Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, Realtors and the like, but, after all, it was not polo. The game began. The Indians, with languid ease, swamped the Americans...
...POEMS?E. E. Cummings?Dial-Press ($2.50). Upon the pages of a far haughtier, a far less circulated magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore...