The trees across the river flapped about in the rising wind, their broad leaves languidly enfolding one another, and then the blessed rain came. |
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Tropical fish moved languidly behind plate glass, while behind another panel of plate glass kitchen staff were at work with somewhat more vigour. |
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In one, as yet unnamed piece, a woman sits languidly daydreaming, her leg dangling over John's fireplace. |
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This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope. |
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You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air. |
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He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice. |
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The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists. |
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There sat a very large, intricately worked silver tankard, around the base of which languidly lay a thin aristocratic-looking hand. |
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Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing. |
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Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour. |
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Laurel waved one hand languidly in the air before pulling a pencil from her bag and jotting notes into a small notepad. |
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She stretched languidly on the soft feather bed and imagined the duke sitting there again, just watching her, smiling at the sight of her asleep. |
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I rolled onto my side and propped my cheek on one hand, watching him as he stretched languidly and opened the small drawer. |
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Love Letters is a languidly paced drama that has moving moments and fine performances, and is well made. |
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Fran didn't use deckchairs, just natty old towels upon which she languidly stretched as if she was on a feather bed. |
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I had a nanny who happened to be an opium addict, and who would lock herself in the room, with me, aged 1.5, and languidly chase the dragon. |
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She stared languidly at him over her small serving of honeydew melon and toast. |
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Turkish soldiers sat by their vehicles in the twilight languidly chatting or cooking. |
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A girl with a pink Mohawk was standing languidly behind the tiny counter. |
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He is still a charming talker who looks you straight in the eye as he languidly spins out his stories about growing up in Mexico, which he considers his spiritual home. |
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Nevertheless, Bill showed the bravery for which Lancastrians are famous the world over, by grabbing the trusty broomstick to send the snake languidly on its way. |
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The days are spent writing music, swimming and reading while Dominic works in his studio, the evenings spent languidly in his arms in the warm evening air. |
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Pleasure boats cruise languidly around the sandbanks that dot the narrow channel leading to the Southern Ocean. |
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At one point a young man lay on his back on the floor, languidly kicking his legs in the air. |
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Many on the right are convinced they are more in tune with the public than Mr Cameron's cautious, languidly metropolitan inner circle. |
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Seen from above, the pearl of the Coast appears to be languidly floating on the sea, surrounded by green hills and scented citrus groves. |
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In addition, the Sonata's style, particularly in cadence configurations and the chromatic progressions of the languidly sensual third movement, is typical of Handel's Italian years. |
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He sits on a mat, his fingers languidly plucking at the strings. |
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The words, widely spaced, drift languidly down the page. |
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Her vision of languidly tranquil ladies carefully dressed and posed in a ht uniqu symbolist light constitute a unique document. |
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He spoke languidly, and only those few words, like a watch with an inelastic spring, that just ticks a moment or two and stops again. |
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He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that. |
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Starting from a family-run tavern, where he learnt his job, in 1983 he decided to take charge of La Criolla, a languidly dying old tavern situated in a typical pub crawl area. |
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In the multi-part works, because Gervais photographs her subjects at different angles, they seem to twist slightly, or move languidly in response to some unknown stimulus. |
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The way his mixes take elements from across the spectrum of electronic dance, from trance, breaks, progressive and deep house, and create a languidly hypnotic liquid groove. |
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Barely seeable, Sufjan Stevens opened his fourth Australian tour at a keyboard playing Redford, from his album Michigan, the mournful piano notes uncurling languidly, an invitation into his ornate, sad world. |
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As the field for the Labour Leadership Stakes languidly trots towards the starting stalls, the answer to at least one of the anguishing questions raised on 7 May becomes apparent. |
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