Languid

Tired and languid from the morning in the sun, she found herself thrilling to his touch and half-dreamily deciding that here was a man she could love, hands and all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even in languid humid climes it is the season of matings and revolutions. ❋ Unknown (1919)

I find it interesting that the review says the first half was 'languid' - I thought it was rushed and choppy .. the romance is more assumed than shown, which was too bad. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He walked some turns backwards and forwards in his room; he recalled the languid form of the fainting wretch to his mind; he wept at the recollection of her tears. ❋ Henry Mackenzie (1788)

They might work: but the vanity of spiritual perfection was tempted to disdain the exercise of manual labor; and the industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

After a backbench query about the AV referendum, Bercow rose up again and called another languid halt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The picture is full of magic; and the colour is truly a spirit dwelling on things and making them expressive to the spirit, for the delicate tones of grey, and green, and violet seem to convey to us the idea of languid sleep, and even the hawthorn-blossoms have lost their wonted brightness, and are more like the pale moonlight to which Shelley compared them, than the sheet of summer snow we see now in our English fields. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)

Q: That's why your pace is so languid -- that's "languid" instead of "slow." ❋ Brad Balfour (2011)

Productivity, he explained, is "languid" in construction, so the decline of building as a share of the economy in recent quarters "is certainly going to be positive for productivity" on average. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There were still plenty of touching dramas of childhood and loss, languid paeans to family (hint: "languid" means "half-hour tracking shots of Serbian countryside"), and stinging indictments of people who think moviemakers are dweebs, but I wasn't forced into a kind of Russian roulette ("this film has a one in six chance of being even more languid than Tarkovsky") and could avoid them at whim. ❋ Princeofcairo (2005)

While I prepared for this important evacuation, there came into the cabin a young man gaily dressed, of a very delicate complexion with a kind of languid smile on his face: which seemed to have been rendered habitual by a long course of affectation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The city is buzzing with a kind of languid optimism and I'm thinking that perhaps such weather could last forever. ❋ Sting (2003)

I once mentioned a little saweiety sheet, published in New York, under the title of Town Topics, because it afforded me a kind of languid pleasure to kick the feculent sewer-rat back into the foul cloaca from which it had crawled to beslime the ICONOCLAST. ❋ Unknown (1905)

But mind, before I begin, I don't do so out of despair ever to see you again, because I trust steadfastly to your kindness to come again when you are not 'languid' and I am alone as usual; only that I dare not keep back from you any longer the following message of Miss Mitford. ❋ Kenyon, Frederic G (1898)

It wasn't that he held his head higher than Mr. Dunbar, or that he was better dressed -- for Mr. Dunbar's clothes looked the newest and best; but he had a kind of languid don't-careish way that seems to be peculiar to first-class gentlemen. ' ❋ Unknown (1875)

On this second occasion he had sent for him evidently not as a judge, but partly with a view to try to get a bribe out of him, and partly because he had some kind of languid interest, as most Romans then had, in Oriental thought -- some languid interest perhaps too in this strange man. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)