“The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar.”

“Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.”

“After a long day of hiking, John collapsed onto the grass in a state of languor, as his muscles ached and he lacked the strength to stand.”

“In whom can hardness of heart, sloth, rancour, languishment stand before that name?”

“He seems to have wasted life in discontent, by the rage of neglected pride, and the languishment of unsatisfied desire.”

“Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.”

“The intensity of sentiment in these faces is like a disease, sharpening the lineaments and discoloring the blood, and putting all the suffering languidness of fever into the eyes.”

“Such preeminence, and such languidness and inactivity, are things which could evidently not coexist.”

“We meet in Soho, in a tall, skinny office just large enough to accommodate his 6ft 2ins of long-limbed languidness.”

“My languors were suspended by the urgencies of this occasion.”

“Tired of pale languors and the painted smile, His Majesty the Son of Heaven, long time A slave of beauty, ardently desired The glance that brings an Empire's overthrow.”