What is "languorous"

Usage examples of "languorous".

The Polovtsian dances had passed the languorous phase and reached the barbaric and shimmering middle section during which Tamara usually paused to cover herself in Bessarabian Body Oil.

He starts out his career at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg, almost within sight of the statue of Wernher Siemens, burning up in a sconce, one among many bulbs witnessing the more languorous forms of Republican decadence.

There was nothing pretty or frivolous here: no languorous nymphs, no frothily petticoated girls on swings.

I was pleased to see that the breasts of both sexes were covered, a tribute to that original Aryan modesty which has been so effectively undone by the languorous climate of the Gangetic plain.

My art, so to speak, demands the presence, upon these tiger-skins, of a number of young women, some blonde, some brunette, some petite, some Junoesque, some languorous, some vivacious, all beautiful, and they need not be over-dressed.

This was the borough for more languorous indulgence, under the roofs of the establishment houses.

They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathiess as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world.

First came several luxurious and languorous kisses, then a sighing subsidence into each other's arms on the bed, freed from clothing and care.

At Long Duling, final stop on the languorous river-taxi route, Indonesia Today offered the practical suggestion that the adventuresome traveler seek out the services of one Pa Jutoh Den, combination headman, police official, and tour agent, whose sons were highly recommended as guides on any further jaunts into the wilderness up-country.

Her hair was chestnut coloured, and astonishingly long and thick, her blue eyes were at once languorous and brilliant, her skin, faintly tinged with a rosy hue, was of a dazzling whiteness.

At the furthest end of the room, sitting and seeming to stare directly at him, the lattice of its complex killing arms and limbs moving in baffling antiphase, its wings half-open in languorous threat, was a slake-moth.

And fair Yolande, amid these bloomful languors, Blushing as they, as languorous, as sweet, Sighed in the arms that passioned her around: O Jocelyn, O lord of my delight, See how-- GILL: Stop, father, stop, I beg of you.

But when not with her friends or her husband, when she caught herself in a rare in-between time, the house carefully scoured, the groceries put away, dinner prepared, the week's baking done, her vegetable and flower gardens manicured, new squashes drying on racks in the sun, and the time she usually spent every day on exquisite colcha embroidery which she sold at two craft outlets (one in Chamisaville, the other in the capital) over--when those moments of sunny and almost languorous late-afternoon solitude arrived, she would sit by that open rear window gently stroking her scars, feeling slightly dizzy from, and a .

All manner of contemporary river craft plied the languorous yet muscular stream: sailboats whose ultralight fabrics responded automatically to shifts in wind speed and direction,hovercraft built up out of ultralight composites, MAG barges which utilized the minute differences in electric charge between air and water to lumber along several centimeters above the surface of the water, big powerboats, tiny super fast pleasure craft, and land-based skimmers.

The strains of Dancehall and Rap, blunted and languorous, and everywhere Drum and Bass, febrile and poised, savage and impenetrable.