Word: languores
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...Galliénne enunciation is crisp, precise. Her sarcasm is spat out with a spasmodic languor...
...placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled, finely acted, richly set, her languor is slightly more girlish and less exciting than that which, in recent films, has ravished U. S. manhood...
...scholarship and a taste for study that he does not get when under the forcing system of daily required work. At Harvard they do not yet know how this will result. The Harvard Bulletin is satisfied, however, that thus far--halfway through the experiment--there are no sins of languor about the Yard, of sudden golden harvests for the tutoring schools, or increase in outside activities or absences. It thinks that everybody is "harder at work than when classes are in operation," that the Library is more used, and that the experiment promises to be a success when the marks...
Unlike most who have made this covenant with God, Robert J. White, Massachusetts district attorney, remembered it after he recovered from an operation last year. With the dark hysteria of fever forgotten, he still could sense the hot languor of his sickroom, he still could feel the curious animation which had come when he handled the holy relic a priest had brought him. Yet he hesitated to fulfill his obligation until, when his mother died, he felt that God was frowning at him for forgetting a miracle...