Exempel på languid

• But this is a sort of languid afterthought; it is not a way of taking distributive issues seriously.

• It is the lack of satisfaction and the languid trust in public institutions which largely explain the low levels of solidarity.

• Notably, no mention is made in the conclusion to recommend the playing of languid waltzes - despite the report containing clear data on worker preferences for them.

• Craik's novel, in other words, brings together two different models of masculinity: one is based on the languid self-discipline of contemplation, the other on the forward-looking self-discipline of productivity.

• There is nothing languid about my dislike of restrictive practices in foreign countries if they are messing up our domestic industries.

• It reminds me of the story of the rather languid young man whose car failed in a traffic block.

• This is not a languid, academic or spoiling exercise on my part.

• They appear languid and bored by the accusations.

• It would advertise something which is not at present understood, and it would arouse feelings which are, unfortunately, all too languid.

• The attitude became languid and the amount of money collected did not pay for the cost of administration.

• The party will implode upon itself, smiling sanguinely and with a stiff upper lip to the last behind its languid leader.

• When does he intend to shake off that air of languid disinterest and do something about the railways industry and investment before the industry crumbles entirely?

• There are others whose charity is of a more languid description—a charity which needs the stimulus and the excitement of something to provoke and bring it into activity.

• Nor does it help us to say that every extension of the franchise has been given to a class who were languid in their desire to secure it.

• It has been described as an airy and vague poetry, languid and fluid, set in an atmosphere of shadows and dreams.