languorous

How To Use languorous In A Sentence

• Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
• The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
• I feel languorous about my world, and of my position and importance in it.
• After a few minutes I saw a green light winking languorously at me, and realised that his main computer was on sleep mode.
• Jezrael's body arched languorously; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar.
• With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose. The Most Beautiful Show In The World
• A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings). NYT > Home Page
• Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
• Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
• As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays. The Beautiful and Damned