languidness

She began to move with a studied languidness to the music, utterly devoid of passion.

The staging is further marred by a languidness that extends the play to three hours.

The languidness in her manner was gone and she was animated, energetic.

Instead he gave her languidness, indulgence and pure pleasure.

Hugh Bonneville conveys the languidness as well as the brutality of his character.

Despite the languidness of his stance and the drawl of his voice, the actor spoke with authority.

I put a finger on a judge and retorted with scathing languidness: "Ancestor of mine.

The contrast between the momentum of Asia and the languidness of the sun-lashed, sand-lathered sub-Sahara could not be more extreme.

From one of them a liveried attendant rose with calculated languidness and, in a bored and condescending voice, asked: 'Your business... sir?'

There was a languidness to his movements, a loose sensuality about his mouth, and a hungry glint had replaced the usual cool assessment in his eyes.

The film works out a comedic contrast: Tang's languidness versus Mr. Costas's wired, self-aware hyperarticulation.

In contrast to Ms. Baker's languidness is the dense amalgamation of different kinds of strokes and densities of gel achieved by Irene Neal.

When, with a strength that gave a lie to her languidness, she thrust them both off, they stood staring at her helplessly for a moment as her hands went to her heart.

Fatigue (also called exhaustion, tiredness, lethargy, languidness, languor, lassitude, and listlessness) is a subjective feeling of tiredness which is distinct from weakness, and has a gradual onset.

Nowhere else in India will you find the laid-back languidness of a Goan lunchtime, the easy charms of its people or the soothing serenity of a day on its beaches.

His eyes never left her, and his arms stretched, with all the music's languidness, to support her and offer a soft-edged, open cage for the glittering bird suggested by Ms. Nichols's dancing.

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He is at his best in three pieces from Opus 17, conjuring heartfelt wistfulness in the E minor, big-boned joyousness in the B flat and seductive languidness in the A minor.

She's the only Brazilian in the film and in the concert; perhaps she was chosen because her band can escape the languidness of Brazilian jazz and hit as hard as the more Afro-Cuban inspired groups.

Indeed, much of what Mr. Spader has shown on the screen is apparent in person: unexpected movements and gestures; a languidness that changes without warning to passion, marked by sudden rises in the volume of his voice.

The languidness of a small town at night, the train whistle and the tiny century-old cottage drew me to an earlier time: I lighted candles, drew a bath in the claw-footed bathtub, turned off the lights and read by candlelight.

In Anne-Marie Mulgrew's "Counting Backwards While Balancing in Precarious Positions," three women moved in varying degrees of languidness and briskness, only to grow compulsively businesslike as they donned white shirts and black trousers.

An absence of any "what-pots" in the corners with rows of cheerful shells, and Hindoo gods, and Chinese idols, and nests of use less boxes of lacquered wood, might be taken as denoting a languidness in the family concerning foreign missions, but perhaps unjustly.

Ms. Elias, the Brazilian pianist who fuses the main line of postwar jazz with Latin American rhythms and song form, has been one of the more interesting crosscultural musicians on the New York scene; her group can hit hard, escaping the languidness of so much Brazilian jazz.

Placidity becomes languidness in the anguished arioso "Già nel seno comincia a compir" from "La Lucrezia," then quickly gives way to vengeful fury: here, a reminder that for all the sheer beauty of her singing, Ms. Hunt Lieberson can also be a fierce creature of the stage.