Word: languid
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This quest for a more live feel is reflected in Rendezvous to a point, with more straightforward rock songs taking precedence over the more languid shoegazer pieces of yore. But even if it is the most “live” Luna album, it’s still far from raw: the songs are still finely chiseled. One gets the feeling that by now the distinguished Wareham could hiccup out songs that most aspiring bands would kill to write...
...murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fianc. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest was late and languid. Bush won comfortably...
...movie is an uninvolving muddle. At his best, which is often very good (Sunshine State, Men with Guns, Lone Star), Sayles is a master of the multilayered, multicharacter narrative, taking a dim but not entirely hopeless view of human nature. This time, though, he is betrayed by a languid style (long, distancing Steadicam takes) and a group of good actors who resolutely refuse to take charge of their characters' destinies or the plot's point. Aside from a couple of energetic performances by Richard Dreyfuss and Daryl Hannah, the actors stand around doing exposition--or, alternatively, miming puzzlement. The largest...
There is something mesmeric about Ian Thorpe's style. Surrounded by the best swimmers in the world, Pieter van den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps among them, his languid crawl seems almost too slow, too casual, for the race. Van den Hoogenband appears to be pulling ahead on each of the first three laps; each time Thorpe turns beautifully and claws back the difference...
...life all the while fading to gray. Perhaps the most in need of medication is youngest sister Irina, who clocks up dismal hours in the local telegraph office and whose loveless engagement to an army lieutenant ends when he is killed in a duel. With her limpid eyes and languid limbs, Rose Byrne was born to play Irina - as she did in a shrill but memorable Sydney Theatre Company production in 2001. Like a sunflower starved of light, her wilting heroine had barely enough energy to proclaim, as Irina does, "We must work...