Word: languores
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...anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting, as one described it, "for a Chinese face to smash." The rebellious mood could turn against the government, which is detested by many students for its languor, inefficiency and corruption...
...movie has yet shown quite so cunningly or colorfully as Stardust all the internal battles of superstardom. If it dealt as strongly with the personal struggles, it would be even better. But this is a film that captures surfaces: the high-charged energy of a concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork...
...studious camp follower Roman Polanski (playing a peasant) and the late Vittorio De Sica, who, even acting and primping as broadly as he does, lends the proceedings a few fleeting moments of dignity. Morrissey has little time for dignity, how ever. He has, for the moment, forsaken his customary languor; it is this rejuvenated spirit - perhaps a result of all the blood - that gives Andy Warhol's Dracula its few silly, phantom pleasures...
...Blue Angel. Perfect to contrast to the above. One of the most sensuous movies ever made. You can't hurry this picture--you have to let its pace wash over you slowly, and feel the real, physical undercurrent beneath the stern languor. Set in decadent cabaret Weimar; made in 1930 by Joseph von Sternburg. With Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings...
...expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation into a form than this Spaniard, engaged in his lifelong conversation with Eros and Thanatos...