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- adverb In a
languorous manner, withoutexertion ,lazily .
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- adverb in a languorous manner
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Examples
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Finally, readers languorously floating and swimming in books in an otherwise arid world.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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But, although she starts memorably, looks beautiful in her Caroline costume, and shows her obvious devotion to Marton Csokas's languorously self-indulgent Orsino as he lies with his head suggestively cradled in her lap, Rebecca Hall misses some of Viola's growing mischief and allows her hands to hang limply from her sides for much of the evening.
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St Aubyn's anti-realist trick is to combine the child's perceptions with the perfectly rendered, languorously sophisticated dialogue of the adults with whom he keeps company.
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Finally, readers languorously floating and swimming in books in an otherwise arid world.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Finally, readers languorously floating and swimming in books in an otherwise arid world.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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There are also significant periods of blending and simmering, but it's a pleasure to watch the sauce languorously bubble and spit and to taste it as the flavors meld.
Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011
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Menessos rolled his shoulders and used the bars to stretch languorously.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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He will see this done, for good or for ill, the queen said, languorously rising from her throne.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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There are also significant periods of blending and simmering, but it's a pleasure to watch the sauce languorously bubble and spit and to taste it as the flavors meld.
Holy-Moly Lobster Mole J.J. Goode 2011
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Finally, readers languorously floating and swimming in books in an otherwise arid world.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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