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Example sentences for: languid
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"I think we've got a better audience worldwide," said Nazar Hamdoon, the languid Iraqi U.N. ambassador.
A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."
Reviews praise the movie's depiction of the repressed Japanese middle class and its "Fred and Ginger sweetness" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). But some critics complain it's too languid and drawn out.
Both little towns have a languid atmosphere and have remained small enough to enable you to really know the place within the first few hours after arrival, yet also offer a pleasant selection of accommodations at very reasonable prices.
I can't be sure what Everett's languid, bare-chested Oberon is up to--posing for a Calvin Klein ad, maybe--and his relationship to Tucci's jaded, aging frat-boy Puck is that of a prissy gamekeeper to a wayward Alvin the Chipmunk.