Word: languores
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...salubrious climate assures salacious longevity. The sexy heroine is a brisk 120 years old. ¶ The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) tells of the unrequited love of a French girl for a royal prince (addressed as "His Weariness"). It is set in an orchidaceous never-never land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells...
Spain's ex-Foreign Minister and onetime heir-apparent to his brother-in-law, Francisco Franco, rose with leisurely languor from a red velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
When he performs with other men (most memorably in The Story of G.I. Joe), Robert Mitchum is a believable actor. But it seems to be a mistake to let him tangle-as a hero, anyhow-with the ladies. In love scenes his curious languor, which suggests Bing Crosby supersaturated with barbiturates, becomes a brand of sexual complacency that is not endearing. Jane Greer, on the other hand, can best be described, in an ancient idiom, as a hot number...
...holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages to stay awake all day on Shamm en-Nesim...
...Hunger." The Viennese, who have eaten probably six or seven hundred calories daily for the past few months, moved with the ominous languor of people who have been hungry a long, long time. Old women, poorly dressed but neat in their poverty, approached jeeps with notes in rudimentary English: "Give me bread please. I am hunger...