Sentence examples for languished in front of from inspiring English sources

On Avenue Christophe, he had depicted two men with raised forks who fought over a roast chicken and, a little farther down the street, a long line of patients who languished in front of an imperious receptionist, busy with her nails.

I brewed, drank and, languishing in front of the television that night, began to feel a bit more lively.

It dampens the drive to compromise on both sides, it leaves moderates languishing in front of their TVs, and emboldens radicals to violence.

Who cares about being paired with someone who also takes long walks in the woods, spends time languishing in front of a fire, enjoys fine wine, and would consider group sex.

Instead of languishing in front of a laptop and watching a fusion of celebrity tributes and people talking about how David Cameron secretly wished Madiba had died in a noose roll through on Twitter, I headed into central London to speak to those who'd travelled to South Africa House to pay their respects.

A Leibovitz shot of a famous man or woman languishing on a settee or shaving in front of a bathroom mirror owes more to a Thomas Gainsborough portrait of a smirking earl seated in his lovely study, one foot resting on his knee, than it does to any recognizable photographic reference.

The system spent 16 years educating him, only to let him languish the next 60 years stuck at home in front of the TV.

Shiloh skidded to a stop about two feet in front of me, his tongue languishing to one side as his telltale sign of joy - drool - formed on his lower lip.

His predecessor in this post languished in the bowels of North Block, a colonial edifice in Delhi.

American posters have long languished in the shadows of Europe.

Lately, Katie Holmes' resume has languished in a sort of limbo.