Sentence examples for languorous from inspiring English sources

The word "languorous" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone or something that is languid or slow-moving and dreamy, often with a luxurious and sensual quality. For example, you could say: "The languorous heat of the summer day made it hard to be productive."

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languorous

adjective

Lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical

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It's where she is at her happiest, shopping for food, cooking it and serving up the results to the pleasure of all who attend her languorous summer lunches.

Languorous and stylish with a touch of the film set, it's all greys, whites and creams, with tiled floors, marble staircases, beams, shutters and billowing curtains, crisp linens and chandeliers.

Or Julie's personal favourite: "We need it a lot more lazy and languorous, but faster".

Congolese couples had never stopped dancing to his languorous rumbas.

D'Annunzio's lyric poetry (about which the author has next to nothing to say), though languorous and little-read today, can be compelling; his moulding of Italian literary language, of which he styled himself the greatest practitioner since Dante, was innovative and streaked with genius.

Then he added little things: a lightly twitching upper lip, a languorous scratching of the parting of his hair, and a way of holding his cigarette as delicately as a flower.His characters were often sweaty and slobby, but then again they could be, like Capote, super-neat.

A brief but frenzied bidding war greeted "Les Cariatides", a large painting of two languorous women in various states of undress, by Paul Delvaux, a Belgian surrealist.

The upshot is a slew of languorous individual connections, as well as a reduction in the channel's capacity to handle the maximum number of users.

She was also fairly sure that Aunt Adele and Klimt, with his satyr face and wild sexuality, had had a mad affair; her mother angrily denied it, said it had been just "an intellectual thing", but you only had to look at her aunt's dark, languorous, faintly smiling eyes to think otherwise".Golden Adele" haunted Mrs Altmann for the rest of her days.

Many bowhunters fear that crossbows will kill a lot of deer, provoking gun-hunters to demand that the languorous bowhunting seasons be shortened.In the crosshairsThe Pope and Young Club (named for two of Ishi's archery students), which keeps bowhunting's record books and issues its rules of fair chase, calls crossbows "a serious threat to the future of bowhunting".

It is a languorous tale of summer love among pre-war England's country-house set ingredients found in the past to have great commercial appeal.The premiere of Kevin Spacey's first new film for some time is also showing.

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