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 Translation for 'languor' from English to Russian
SYNO dreaminess | flatness | languor | ...
истома {ж}languor
томность {ж}languor
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Translation for 'languor' from English to Russian

languor
истома {ж}

томность {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • All tracks are sung in Mandarin. This album is filled with feelings of lethargy, languor, drowsiness and disengagement, yet most of the songs sound warm and sweet.
  • Melancholic and distressed by slander against her, she sank into a final languor before dying.
  • "The Independent" gave the compilation a mixed review, writing that "the most interesting tracks here are the cover versions of songs like 'Guitarman' (Elvis done in the vein of Dylan), 'Little Red Rooster', and Leonard Cohen's 'Tower of Song', whose exhausted languor makes a surprisingly smooth transfer to Mary Chain mode".
  • The leisure and languor of the belle-epoque pervaded his paintings, which almost exclusively depicted beautiful women.
  • Too involved with his work and in love with one of his famous models who was doomed to die of tuberculosis, Lelong never grew to understand his wife's languor, or her frequent outbursts of temper when she was out of the limelight.

  • n rock algebra you might deduce that they'd worked out some new equation involving the barbed languor of the Mary Chain, the speedfreak urgency of Sonic Youth, and a dash of The Vaselines' sauce – but none of that accounts for the savagely sensual results."
  • All the credit was given to researcher Henri Brivet, who was "chief" of the laboratories at Washington, having experienced "languor and headache" then known to be caused by breathing thallium fumes.
  • Louise, who concealed great cleverness and a strong will under an appearance of languor and a rather childlike beauty (diarist John Evelyn speaks of her "baby face"), yielded only when she had already established a strong hold on Charles' affections and character.
  • A critic in the "Literary Gazette" said that Corbaux had "depicted oriental beauty in all its varieties of voluptuous languor and fascinating vivacity".
  • Antiochus is bedridden, suffering from a sickly languor. His father, King Seleucus, is at the foot of the bed in the dark. To save his son, he called on the great physician Erasistratus.

  • The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "It's Sunday morning soul-jazz, and such is the languor and even keel of most of the tunes".
  • It was greeted at the time as ‘full of the conflicting languor, passion and religious fervour of the Basque Country’, and supplied much of the local colour so lovingly described in the novel but difficult to represent on the stage.
  • The process of cooking in the Russian stove can be called "languor" — holding dishes for a long period of time at a steady temperature.
  • The first part of the stanza, "Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne" ("the long sobs of the violins of autumn") indicated that the invasion would begin within 24 hours; the second, "Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone" ("wound my heart with a monotonous languor") was the specific call to action.
  • It was ostensibly not a portrait of Walters, but the alleged model, the noted horsewoman Annie Gilbert, resembles her, and the juxtaposition of horse, beautiful woman and prevailing mood of languor troubled contemporary critics; some clearly assumed Walters herself had been the subject.

  • The first of the “Three Dances” expresses the languor and melancholy of the Far East; the second, the grace and charm of the Oriental dancers; the third, their poetry and tenderness, translated into an Occidental idiom.
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