Word: languor
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...writing flows with an unforgettable, lilting legato: "October's orange ebbed in the marshes; they stretched dud grey to the far rim of sand." The talk of a husband and wife in bed at night, speaking of their children or their friends, evokes in tone and languor the bedroom conversation familiar to all parents. In the Guerins' home, guests move through "a low varnished hallway where on a mock cobbler's bench their coats and hats huddle like a heap of the uninvited." Houses have windows whose panes are "flecked with oblong bubbles and tinged with lavender...
Under that layer is the work of an attractively gifted singer, her husky, throbbing contralto giving off a languor that occasionally approaches drowsiness, her guitar unexceptional but sufficient. Though a newcomer to solo circles, Bobbie is clearly a pro. Her first song, composed at the age of seven, was picked out on the family's upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working...
...vernal equinox has passed. Soon the graceful languor which invariably overtakes Cambridge this time of year will be attributed once again to a subtle combination of Spring and hour exams. But the real reason for that feeling of being "unaccountably pooped," says Dr. John T. Middleton, a leading expert on air pollution, is a common air pollutant known as nitric oxide...
...spring came last week to the parks and plazas of Brussels, the Common Market's Council of Ministers greeted it by breaking new ground-then retreating into a springlike languor that seemed to rule out any further progress. The new ground was the adoption of an unprecedented common policy under which the Six will coordinate their national economic policies in an effort to halt Europe's dangerous inflation. "This is the first time," said Council President Henri Fayat of Belgium, "that the Six have ever discussed so frankly and so profoundly their common financial problems." But when...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements...