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Take North's celebrated score for A Streetcar Named Desire : The score's brilliance lies in the way the languorous New Orleans jazz, redolent of sin, plumes out of the dive up the street from the Kowalskis', curls along the block, and squeezes itself through a radio.
Moyers' documentaries are languorous, even soporific.
Ever since its early maritime days and through the 1950s — when gangsters who ran prostitution and gambling rackets made Havana synonymous with decadence — it has always held a slightly seedy, languorous allure.
("That is why," the Economist observed a few years ago, in its trademark tone of languorous hauteur, "when a Russian steel factory reduces output, it is an achievement, not a pity."
In the Byzantine, languorous U.N. bureaucracy, Annan earned a reputation as someone who actually Got Things Done.