Voorbeelden van languishing

• Her hair, her loose clothes, and her languishing posture all contribute to this characterization.

• It seems necessary to repeat this truism quite frequently - and not merely for the benefit of those languishing in ignorance outside the academy.

• This + marked once more by a languishing dominant ninth + occurs in the midst of the most passionate passage, but is again a moment of 'doubt'.

• Sofas functioned ideologically as the opposite of manufactories and of the men who labored at machines; they positioned white, elite, and middle-class women as languishing non-laborers.

• Again, during the 1960s and 1970s we were languishing near the bottom of those leagues.

• Those people are still languishing in prison, labour camps, in exile and in psychiatric hospitals because of their religious activities.

• He had to deal with an industry which had been languishing, and which had become disheartened.

• These values could, however, end up being diluted in rhetoric and languishing if we do not move from words to actions.

• Why does he not say that he is prepared to use the services of his languishing conciliation officers?

• The industrial system is languishing and in a state of decay.

• The fact is that agriculture to-day is a completely languishing industry, and it is obvious, therefore, that there must be something wrong.

• Any trade of that kind that comes from abroad is a competition with a certain trade which is languishing in this country.

• The catering trade cannot be described as a languishing trade.

• They are languishing in those gaols for no other reason than that they inadvertently crossed the border.

• The industries which it is supposed to be its purpose to help are languishing.