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Walk around the chestnut and lime trees, and admire Aristide Maillol’s 18 sensual statues of nymphs and languorous maidens, a few of which are coquettishly half concealed behind a miniature maze.
In the Byzantine, languorous U.N. bureaucracy, Annan earned a reputation as someone who actually Got Things Done.
In one crucial scene, the vagabond artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio retires with Rose (Kate Winslet) to her sitting room, where he makes a nude sketch of her sitting on a divan as the languorous hours tick by.
The writer Bill McKibben begins his meditation on television and nature, The Age of Missing Information , by describing a duck gliding around a pond, contrasting a morning spent watching its languorous motion with the rat-tat-tat of images and data on more than 100 cable TV channels--images that, he argues, carry far less information about the way the world works than the back-and-forth of that lone quacker.
And neither is available just for a languorous afternoon.