Word: languidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Africa, telegraph linesmen, long mystified by the destruction of wires over the veldt, discovered that languid giraffes use them for head rests...
...opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
While he invents witty fantasies on the evening's conversation, Cadell senses the macabre truth behind the feast. He leaves with the other guests. But he returns, sinister and languid, to toy with the nerves of both murderers and audience until he chooses to reveal and confirm his suspicions. One of the slayers is then prostrated with fright. Holding the other at bay with a sword cane, Cadell shrills a police whistle as the curtain falls...
...grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
...Finley opposes twentieth century standards in another, more fundamental way. His book is steeped with a weariness, a languid longing for quiet, that has little in common with the more typical energy of such men as Sandburg. The plot of the masque is of little consequence, and consists of a series of wrangles by a group of characters fancifully entitled Rabbot, Porcupine, Fox, etc., about inconsequential topics and the efforts of Thalia, the Rustic Muse, to restore peace. Around this outline are massed a series of natural descriptions, almost everyone of which is filled with this longing for solitude...