I wondered languidly, is this what an orgasm feels like?
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But ultimately, "Residence" is a little too blurry and languidly paced.
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Press the candy gently, and it will languidly return to form.
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I kept my hand over it as I moved my body languidly.
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It whirled and bristled, as languidly as an anemone in the sea.
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Piano-heavy production on tracks like "Tomorrow" leans back languidly into lounge-lite soul.
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"How can you appreciate me?" ask officers, AK-47s dangling languidly from their shoulders.
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Towne spends much of "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" gazing languidly from the couch.
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But where Nesbitt's enthusiasm comes off as languidly awestruck, Varble is all meticulous intensity.
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Nothing—just a scythe languidly resting against the wall and shelves lined with foraged absinthe.
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He moves languidly, effortlessly, covering vast tracts of ground without ever really appearing to sprint.
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When a sip of either hits your throat, your brain just smiles languidly and goes, Ahhhh.
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"My walls are so filled now," he says, gesturing languidly at his collection of Orientalist masterpieces.
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A herd of water buffalo wandered languidly down the sandy beach to drink at the river.
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"In dreams I'm moving through heavy water… I'd rather be sleeping," Liz Harris languidly sang. Same. Same.
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In RaMell Ross's "Giving Tree," a young girl's body is languidly draped over a thick tree branch.
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I languidly eye the leaky part of the radiator that I wrapped in an old T-shirt.
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The cat Towne, above, spends much of "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" gazing languidly from a couch.
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At its edge sat a woman who appeared to be Ms. Kunakey, languidly fanning out her hair.
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He strikes a pose, with his arms languidly outstretched like the wings of a crane, his legs crossed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A mysteriously hovering vantage point slowly rotates above muddy, languidly rippling waters.
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Meanwhile, Calm is composed of languidly moving or static shots in which architectural detail mingles with semi-surrealist monologues.
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No, the mornings here blossom languidly to the chirping of birds and the thump, thump, thump of feed buckets.
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In the park, people spread languidly, smoking dope and playing with their dogs, not a care in the world.
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In "Golden Hour" and "Rainbow," the final two tracks, she languidly sings about how everything is going to be alright.
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Aduba approaches the role with immense care, taking the time to portray the intricacies of her character's complex emotions languidly.
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It's usually found lazing languidly on a plate, projecting a kind of existential angst in the face of impending doom.
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It's a smokey and genuinely sexy scene, as the camera languidly circles the pair, who are sitting opposite each other.
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"It was a totally new world I was brought into" Hilliard languidly explains over the phone as he's looking for parking.
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For her languidly dancing fans, this seemed acceptable — if Björk had sent a doppelgänger, she would have her own, spiritual reasons.
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And unlike basketball, the game unfolds languidly over the course of an afternoon, free from the pressure of flashing shot clocks.
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He was sitting languidly on a couch, a wooden sandal dangling from his toe, interviewing candidates for jobs in sales and marketing.
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In the center of the shop, a few live specimens swim languidly in a fish tank, blissfully unaware of their precarious position.
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How languidly and grossly they intertwine with one another — how clumsily, lewdly, indiscriminately — like lascivious cephalopods merged in seething tangles of prehensile carnality.
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There was a proliferation of dresses in the fall 2018 collections, particularly the long, loose, and languidly printed styles seen at Balenciaga and Gucci.
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Piero, a dog Berajikli says adopted his family, stretches languidly on the porch in the sweltering midday heat, then flops down again to sleep.
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A HOME-COOKED Ethiopian meal is a sensual journey, which extends beyond the warm flavours of ginger and cardamom that spice the languidly served stews.
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While strings are used percussively and sparse piano melodies languidly unfold, it's the spaces between the notes that exert the emotional valence of each composition.
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There are few things better than riding a bike: breeze in your face, legs pushing languidly, mastering physics to balance, miraculously, on just two wheels.
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This was the aha moment: languidly floating in a pool being fed by a waterfall, blessedly alone, surrounded by a forest of emerald-green bamboo.
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The women call out their favorite features — "my eyes," says Lamy; "my face," Reid intones — as they stretch languidly in a faux-Roman bath interior.
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Tracks like "Teenage Fantasy", with its piano trills and ba-dum-dum bass, float along languidly even when she's belting out their soul-R&B choruses.
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Not even a dozen miles away, revelers reclined on the sand, sipping languidly from straws piercing coconuts while they meditated on the color of the ocean.
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But this season had way too many scenes of her getting naked and dead and languidly threatening Felix and Sylvester, without adding anything new to the story.
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Some Republican grandees might languidly reply that angst among Cruz voters does not much matter—they are not endorsing the Texan because they want him to win.
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It's then that we languidly soak in tubs of skin-nourishing oils and mind-quieting aromatics and casually delve into nine-step Korean-inspired skin-care regimens.
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On TV, women lathered up their already-hairless legs with luxuriously thick shaving cream and languidly ran a razor from ankle to thigh in one sexy stroke.
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"Once again I fall into / My feminine ways," Ragnar sings, languidly strumming an acoustic guitar as he lies nude in a claw-footed bathtub full of water.
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Ms. Lacey, Ms. Livingstone, Mr. Thompson and Dana Michel crawled languidly around the asymmetrical room, the audience huddled around the perimeter, to a soundscape of intermittent bird song.
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Alessandra, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who funds the monastery, embroiders languidly until her father can fund her dowry — she wants love (but will settle for sex).
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In his languidly titled autobiography, "Life", Keith Richards tells a story that captures something about the workplace culture of the Rolling Stones and his decades as the band's guitarist.
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But instead of lounging languidly on a beach, she snapped the photo in her entryway at home with her 3-year-old son, Harper, and the family dog photobombing.
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That island, though, is languidly pretty, photographed in tones of butterscotch and cerulean by the Serbian cinematographer Vladimir Subotic (a regular collaborator of the writer and director, Vladan Nikolic).
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What it is not, is speedy, with a narrative that moves carefully, even languidly, and visuals so beautifully patient that we have time to memorize their texture and import.
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The only difference, really, is the hostly persona — manic rather than laid-back, declaiming rather than languidly commenting, muscle T's and baggy shorts rather than jeans and white button-downs.
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And the film is worth watching for one gesture alone, as the Dauphin (Robert Pattinson), Hal's opposite number, lounges languidly, in his matte-black breastplate and greaves, above the fray.
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Edinson Cavani was allowed time and space by Brazil's David Luiz to volley the first Uruguay goal, and the same defender, David Luiz, languidly let in Suárez to notch the tying goal.
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She smokes a cigarette and gazes at a white woman in the nude, who, unlike Manet's stiff Olympia, is languidly splayed onto the bed; both of them are on equal playing fields.
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The town retains an easygoing, transitory vibe, with tourists languidly wandering the streets, and ubiquitous street stalls where white signboards advertise fruit shakes, banana Nutella pancakes, chicken sandwiches, beef bacon burgers and more.
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As he watched their arms and legs move languidly in the air, Mr. Liu predicted that the rest of the nation would soon ease up after the turbulence and tension of Mao's rule.
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Sporting a shimmering monokini and bright yellow Mongolian lamb's wool coat, Yoo languidly wields a 24-inch diamond studded katana sword at the dinner table like it's the most natural thing in the world.
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For 11 ignominious months Lord Pearson, a languidly aristocratic former Tory, trashed his party's prospects: in a television interview shortly before the 2010 election he appeared not even to have read its 14-page manifesto.
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Centered around a woozy lead synth melody, the track's savory, minor key ambiance hangs languidly while its percussive backbone does the lion's share of the work, transforming the sense of slow sensuality into something infectious and brazen.
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The meandering motions that fill the room — from the inked script to the implied ambulatory path — suggest an energy that flows languidly rather than one that is focused and concentrated — although still pulsing — as in the first room.
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It's early in the week and therefore quiet, so most of the girls sit around playing Candy Crush on their phones, while one, her halterneck dress untied and breasts exposed, dances languidly around a pole to The Weeknd.
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In the memoir sections, Skidelsky languidly lays out his desultory youth (county-level tennis player, Doc Martens-wearing rocker) and upper-crust education (Eton, Oxford) through an early-adulthood bout with depression and a difficult time with his girlfriend.
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She wore pigtails, a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, a long skirt, Doc Martens and cat-eye makeup as she languidly tried vocal takes on fuzzy old microphones and sourced sound-effect samples from a pile of dusty floppy disks.
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Dressed in loosefitting pants, a military jacket and black-and-cream heels, her hair curly and buoyant, Tatiana von Furstenberg walked languidly through an exhibition at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side on a sunny November afternoon.
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I wish there were a study that looked at what would happen if all the looped clips on CNN were replaced by this one of Old Man Riverwalk languidly landing blows, and how much it might calm everybody right down.
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Joe Biden—who, as Barack Obama's Vice-President, was his most natural successor and who is still first in the national polls—had been campaigning languidly, with periodic outbursts of worrying verbiage, and his standing had deteriorated throughout the year.
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Bridging the gap between subject and artist is Paul Cadmus, who is best known as a painter of urban grit and male nudes: George Platt Lynes photographed him with his lover Jared French, both lying languidly on a wall-and-ladder-like structure.
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McAndrew's sculpture Norah is featured in the NSFW exhibit, and depicts a plus-sized woman sprawled in an armchair and languidly stroking her pubic hair—grabbing her crotch in just the way that McAndrew found so fascinating when she was growing up.
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I shrug into my cozy bathrobe and put on my purloined hotel slippers (don't act like you don't steal the slippers they give you at hotels) and proceed to languidly lounge about my apartment and pretend my schnoodle is a lady in waiting.
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Zac Goldsmith, the languidly aristocratic Brexiteer who fought a dog-whistle campaign for the London mayoralty in May, had triggered the vote in October by resigning from the Conservatives in protest at plans to build a third runway at nearby Heathrow Airport.
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John Carpenter's synth-based approach to horror and sci-fi film scores is as important as his uniquely dread-filled style of directing (Escape from New York wouldn't be that languidly-paced if it were made now, nor would it have a theme this good).
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After happily losing myself in the spatial and chromatic intricacies of "Owl Lake," I moved on to "Tree With Sleeping Leopard" (143, 214 x 2127 inches), in which a big cat, surrounded by foliage, dozes on a branch, one foreleg and paw dangling languidly.
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He worked with a cast of largely nonprofessional actors speaking only Spanish and Mixtec with English subtitles, and shot in black and white in a series of languidly paced shots that evoke the meticulous rhythms in the life of Cleo, the domestic worker at the film's center.
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But to say too much more about its plotting or its characters would spoil some of its pleasures, which unfold languidly and methodically, but always with purpose, always with a sense that Camille is standing athwart bigger and bigger waves that always threaten, to drown her.
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Sometimes it seems that we can tolerate good women only just as long as they serve us well as towering cake-makers, genial skivvies, languidly biddable Muses, cheeky waitresses, or useful behind-the-arras funders of art movements in the cultural vanguard, steered authoritatively and confidently into the future by men.
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And he used his industry goodwill and star-charm to lure moviegoers into such potential career danger-zones as Interview with the Vampire, Magnolia, and Eyes Wide Shut—the latter being a nearly three-hour-long drama in which members of a Long Island faux-Illuminati wear fright-masks and languidly bonk each other to gregorian chants.
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He conjures Mike's childhood with Proustian ardor, capturing his fond memories of his mother (who smelled of Prell shampoo, making him think of those old TV commercials showing a pearl languidly drifting through the mentholated green) and his worst boyhood fears (convinced that a gaggle of evil-looking puppets were lying in wait, plotting to kill him).
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On a gray morning last October, I found myself on the Great Western Railway, rolling along the same route that Woolf would have taken about a century before, the train hugging tight past a progression of wide swathes of golden sand and languidly sloping green cliffs, with the deep blue of St. Ives Bay and the Godrevy Lighthouse in the distance.
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As Sewell, who examines the commercial, historical, and social aspects of fashion in the courses she teaches at the University of Arizona in Phoenix, told me in a recent e-mail interview, the high-quality corsets and other "unmentionables" the women in Goldman's pictures lounge around in, squeeze themselves into, or languidly peel off were not only parts of their work uniforms but could even be seen as self-esteem-boosting job perks.
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"We were convinced that in the future, the thing that would be most important for our guests would be total silence." austria italy SS44 dolomites Merano Hotel Miramonti Adler Mountain Lodge Hotel San Luis Vigilius Resort SS12 austria Sassopiatto/ Sassolungo/ Alpe di Siusi croatia italy bolzano province Adriatic Sea 10 miles 150 miles By The New York Times As evening falls amid the dimly lit cabins, the only sounds are the occasional bather languidly splashing in the burbling Jacuzzi, and the soft popcorn snaps of newly lit fires, as the last sun rays fade behind the delicate, silhouetted web of pine branches surrounding the ridge.
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Louisa languidly leaned upon the window looking out, without looking at anything, while young Thomas stood sniffing revengefully at the fire.
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Minkhaung was totally heartbroken by his eldest son's death. He recalled Thihathu from Prome, and appointed him heir apparent.Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 50 The war went on languidly for two more campaigns.
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In 1848 Ingres painted a replica that differs in several details. In contrast to his resolute standing pose in the original version, Aretino is shown seated languidly in a chair. In the background at the right is a young woman; at the left hangs a self-portrait by Aretino's friend Titian.Radius, Emilio (1968).
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Samuel Long lights a cigarette and languidly confesses. He met the real Loftus in Egypt and bought his identity for twenty thousand pounds. Smethurst was his fag at Eton and recognised him. He didn't give him away instantly as he had a case of hero worship for the man when he was younger.
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Even so, the relationship between Sinfield and Fripp had become increasingly strained as the band progressed. On their next album, Islands, Sinfield began exploring new lyrical territory, with more sexual imagery juxtaposed with the languidly surreal title track. On 1 January 1972, however, following a tour of the United States, Fripp got tired of Sinfield's fantasy-based lyrics and Sinfield left.
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Because of the Manipuri threat, Ava could only send small armies to the south in 1743 and 1744, neither of which made any mark.Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 389–392 The war "carried on languidly", with neither side achieving any lasting advantage until 1747.Phayre 1967: 146 In December 1747, Binnya Dala came to power in Pegu, and the new king was determined to finish the war.
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Michelangelo: alt= Rectangular fresco. God is in the act of creating the first man, who lies languidly on the ground, propped on one elbow, and reaching towards God. God, shown as a dynamic elderly man, is reaching his hand from Heaven to touch Adam and fill him with life. In 1508 Pope Julius II succeeded in getting the sculptor Michelangelo to agree to continue the decorative scheme of the Sistine Chapel.
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Apollo (September 1, 2007) and Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons, a collection of film installations by Philip Haas. The New York Times review of Warner's book for The Victorians exhibition said that, in addition to the expected "languidly draped ladies of the popular Pre-Raphaelite painters", readers "may be pleasantly surprised . . . by some of the other color plates (and substantial explications)".Ted Loos, "Gaslight Becomes You", The New York Times, May 4, 1997.
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Neil Kulkarni of The Quietus wrote: "You got the sense, listening, that Rudy and Alex were too apart, & consequently the recording process too bitty & piecemeal to make a coherent album." In a review of the album for Option magazine, Bill Meyer wrote that the "languidly crooned vocals, gently insinuating grooves, and smooth arrangements make 'New Clear Child' top drawer make-out music" and that the sparse production separates the album from typical "quiet storm fodder".
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Michelangelo: alt= Rectangular fresco. God is in the act of creating the first man, who lies languidly on the ground, propped on one elbow, and reaching towards God. God, shown as a dynamic elderly man, is reaching his hand from Heaven to touch Adam and fill him with life. In 1508 Pope Julius II succeeded in getting the Florentine sculptor Michelangelo (1475-1564) to agree to continue the decorative scheme of the Sistine Chapel.
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Leonilla is wearing a luxurious gown of ivory silk moiré, with a pink sash around her waist. A deep purple mantle wraps around her back and falls across her arms. She gazes languidly at the viewer while she toys with the large pearls around her neck in an indolent gesture, reinforcing the sensuality of the model. Winterhalter contrasted the sumptuous fabrics and vivid colors against the princess's alabaster flesh to heighten the sensuality of the pose, the model, and the luxuriant setting.
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As court painter he executed his marvelously composed masterpieces: the Surname-i Sultan Ahmed Han and the Surname-i Vehbi ("Book of Festival"). The latter book, still in the library of the Topkapı Palace, depicts the festivals commemorating the circumcision in 1720 of four sons of Ahmed III, However Levni's main concern seems to have been to paint single-leaved miniatures depicting individuals: beautiful girls, languidly reclining ladies, and charming young men. The faces of his figures show little expression.
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In contrast to Rubens' luscious and 'rounded' ideal form, Velázquez painted a more slender female figure.Prater, p. 51. The Rokeby Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility reclining languidly on her bed, her back to the viewer—in Antiquity, portrayal of Venus from a back view was a common visual and literary erotic motif—and her knees tucked. She is shown without the mythological paraphernalia normally included in depictions of the scene; jewellery, roses, and myrtle are all absent.
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The Young Lieutenant received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 79%, based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's consensus reads, "A gritty, languidly paced crime drama that blends old-fashioned ambiance with modern cynicism". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 71, based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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The others eventually decide they are content to stay: Miss Brinklow because she wants to teach the people a sense of sin; Barnard because he is really Chalmers Bryant (wanted by the police for stock fraud) and because he is keen to develop the gold mines in the valley; and Conway because the contemplative scholarly life suits him. A seemingly young Manchu woman, Lo-Tsen, is another postulant at the lamasery. She does not speak English, but plays the harpsichord. Mallinson falls in love with her, as does Conway, though more languidly.
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Jeffrey Thomas writes: > In 1864 Henry James wrote of [Ellen Van Buren] in a letter, 'Miss Ellen Van > Buren is here -- pale, thin, and drooping. We taunt her facetiously with > being in love ... whereat she smiles languidly.' Four years later Henry > James commented in a letter to William James, 'We heard from Elly Van Buren > that she is engaged to one Dr. Morris of New Rochelle, a young physician who > has cared for her for 4 years and never has been attentive to any girl in > the interval. I should think Elly's own conscience should sting her.
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In addition to his contributions to music, Ferry has also come to be known for his distinctive style and artistic sensibilities. In 2005, GQ presented Ferry with its Lifetime Achievement Award, deeming him "pop's original art-school bobby-dazzler" and noting his solo career spent as the "world's best-dressed and most languidly mannered deluxe chanteur". Esquire has noted Ferry's lifelong obsession with clothing and describing any in-person interaction with him as a "bespoke event, a louche ensemble of elegant affectations". In 2007, Belgian fashion designer, Dries Van Noten, created a Fall 2007 collection inspired by outfits Ferry wore during his solo career and tenure with Roxy Music.
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People who knew Lokhvitskaya personally later spoke of the stark contrast between the poet's 'bacchanal' reputation and her real life persona. The author fond of erotic imagery (whom some critics labeled 'pornographer') in reality was, according to Ivan Bunin, "the most chaste woman in Saint Petersburg, a faithful wife and most caring, protective mother of several children." Playing 'Eastern beauty' at home, she received visitors lying languidly on a couch. Still, according to Bunin, there was not a trace of pretentiousness behind this posturing; on the contrary, the hostess greatly enjoyed matter-of-fact chattering about funny and trivial things, displaying wit and disarming self-irony.
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Wozzeck is clearly associated with two motifs, one often heard as he rushes on or off stage, the other more languidly expressing his misery and helplessness in the face of the pressures he experiences. Marie is accompanied by motifs that express her sensuality, as when she accepts a pair of earrings from the Drum Major. A motif not linked to a physical object is the pair of chords that close each act, used in an oscillating repetition until they almost blur into one another. The most significant motif is first heard sung by Wozzeck (in the first scene with the Captain), to the words "" ("we poor folks").
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Jody Rosen of the Los Angeles Times called the song a "stoic look back at a fizzled romance", driven by ringing piano chords and sprightly beats. Roisin O'Connor of The Independent praised the track for its lyrics, characterized by one-liners. Courteney Larocca of Insider dubbed the song "incredibly solid", praising the "breezy attention to rhythm" Swift brings to the song, while painting a tale of a "the-one-who-got-away romance". Vulture's Craig Jenkins thought that the song sees Swift contemplating "languidly", yearning for a "storybook romance of her own or gesturing to some of the great love songs in recent history in her writing".
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Feldon studied acting at HB Studio. Following working as a model, Feldon's break came in the form of a popular and much parodied television commercial for "Top Brass", a hair pomade for men by Revlon. Lounging languidly on an animal-print rug, she purred at the camera, addressing the male viewers as "tigers". This led to small roles in television series. In the 1960s, she made appearances on Twelve O'Clock High (season one, episode 24: "End of the Line"), Lorne Greene's Griff, Flipper (season one, episodes 12 and 13: the two-parter "The Lady and the Dolphin") and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (in "The Never-Never Affair" aired spring 1965).
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Reed, B. DownBeat Review, October 2017 On Allmusic, Thom Jurek observed "Blue Maqams is lovely. It's a nearly perfect illustration of balance between cultural and musical inquiry, underscored by the confidence and near symbiotic communication of this gifted ensemble. This is an exceptional outing, even for an artist as accomplished and creative as Brahem". Writing for The Guardian reviewer John Fordham stated "Brahem’s oud often sketches in the themes, sometimes shadowed by the others in dreamy twilight reflections, more often accelerating into languidly swaying nightwalks such as the title track. Spanish-tinged guitar- like jams end in drum flurries, while thumping Holland bass vamps release scintillating jazz breakouts ... It’s a real meeting of hearts and minds".
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Allison Shoemaker, from The A.V. Club, compared the episode unfavorably to season 5's "Underneath", which also focused on specific characters with limited participation of the remaining cast. According to her, "we know these characters [Diaz and Lance] a lot less well than we know Oliver and Felicity". She also said that both episodes "slow the hell down with stories that are languidly paced by their very nature", but only "Underneath" had positive results. She criticized what she saw as the writers making Black Siren a character whose main characteristic is not being Black Canary and found that the scene in which Diaz burns Jesse alive contradicts the character's development throughout the episode.
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" Lane Billings of Paste noted the song as whispy in nature, and made a case for Ocean as an R&B; revivalist. Consequence of Sound's Harley Brown of stated that the song moves languidly, "like perfect thoughts about someone missed, until the muscle memory of Ocean’s falsetto bursts into the song’s upper register." She continued, "while Ocean might feel this more acutely than either woman who sung those songs, there’s a reason Bey shed a tear the first time she heard it. Regardless of how much these lyrics were influenced by lines like, 'By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless,' the ache in Ocean’s voice is universal.
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He is seen in a hunching position resting his head in the lap of his daughter to the left, while the daughter to the right leans back on him for support. As he is laying down it is uncertain whether Lot is sleeping, frightened by the terror going on in Sodom, or simply drunk. His facial expression is not completely visible to the viewer, however, his eyes are closed and his brows are furrowed citing some form of discomfort that he is having, whether it is a result of his intoxication or his reaction to the sounds of Sodom. His right arm languidly falls over the leg of his daughter that he is laying on and is devoid of tension.
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In early August 1942 Bruce and Hunter arrived at Colditz Castle (then prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C), where fellow persistent escapees were highly engaged in planning more escapes, and Hunter was soon involved in the various projects. The three Royal Marine officers (Capt Courtice, their company commander at Calais, was also at Colditz) had a reputation for bravery and good humour, and Hunter was noted as being particularly outspoken, a persistent nuisance to his captors and equally amusing to his colleagues. He once stole the cap of the German officer who was expounding on the merits of Wagner during a musical evening. Another incident even made the Germans laugh when, late for a roll-call, he called languidly from a castle window to the parade below "I'll come down and join you all in a minute".
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Corseting girls and the health (mental and physical) problems it could create was a frequent discussion point. “In 1867 an innocent letter from a mother worried about the use of corsets in her daughter’s school sparked a long discussion, in which the connection between tight-lacing, torture and pleasure was made explicit. Right when the “corset correspondence” ended, a more sadistic subject rose, concerning the habit of whipping to control female servants and girls”. Furthermore, “a letter, which started the long discussion of tight-lacing, came from a mother complaining that she had left her “merry, romping girl” in a “large and fashionable boarding school near London” when she went abroad. On her return four years later she saw a “tall pale young lady glide slowly in with measured gait and languidly embrace me”; her absurdly small waist explained her change in demeanor”.
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Certainly, observation of the sculpture seems to bear this out. The martyr almost turns away from the pain, his upper body and head reaching upwards towards the skies, with his clear, almost peaceful eyes, focussed in the direction of God. Others take Bernini's depiction of Lawrence even further: describing the martyr as being "reclined on his left elbow languidly as any Roman banqueter", and thwarting his torturers with "a carved attitude of rapture". Another art historian, Avigdor Poseq, interprets the expression a little differently: “the calm face was apparently meant to convey the intensive of the martyr’s fear of God.” He continues by suggesting that Bernini presented Lawrence with an outstretched to hand to indicate the martyr’s desire to be turned over by his torturers, thus exposing even more of his flesh to the flames below.
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On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 60 percent based on nine reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100 based on six critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film's visuals and the lead actors' performances, writing "the movie nonetheless casts a spell, thanks to the hypnotic visuals [...] and the very effective, understated performances by the two leads". Kimber Myers of the Los Angeles Times found aspects of the film problematic, stating that "there's an interesting approach to the standard amnesia story somewhere in this languidly paced drama, but it largely seems engineered to show its lead actress nude for the pleasure of her much-older 'husband,' the director himself and those in the audience unconcerned with Kitty as a human being".
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Drowned in Sound said the album has "the sound of atrophied romance, obscure regrets and flickering confetti set to a shoegaze siren call that brought to mind the likes of Mazzy Star and Slowdive whilst gently asserting a hushed authority all of its own," further stating that the "funereal organ and sparse, chintzy beats remain, but the sound is more fleshed-out and vivid with harpsichord and lushly textured keys, Alex Scally's slide guitar in particular more languidly expressive than ever." Slant Magazine stated the duo are "the Gillian Welch and David Rawlings of folktronica, dream pop, or whatever", adding that the album is "mostly quiet strumming, jangling percussion, and busy, elegiac keyboards." According to AllMusic, "You Came to Me" is a "stunner, melding dark chamber pop ambience with lyrics that feel like they came from a surreal '70s AM radio hit." "Heart of Chambers" is "downright soulful, with Legrand's keening voice and swelling organs giving it a truly devotional cast".
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John Frederick Lewis's The Harem portrays Circassians as the dominant mistresses of the harem, who look down on other women, as implied in the review of the painting in The Art Journal, which described it as follows: > It represents the interior of a harem and slaves at Cairo, wherein is seated > in luxurious ease a young man, attired in the excess of Moslem fashion. Near > him, and reclining upon cushions, are two European Circassian women, whom > also dressed in the extremity of Egyptian Oriental taste of Cairo ... On the > right is seen a tall Nubian eunuch, who removes from the shoulders of an > African Black slave the shawl by which she had been covered, in order to > show her to the master of the harem; this figure with her high shoulders and > the characteristics of her features, is a most successful national > impersonation. The Circassian women look languidly to the African with an > expression of supreme contempt, which is responded to by a sneer on the face > of the Nubian eunuch.Art Journal, Review of the Old Water-colour Society > Exhibition, 1850 Orientalizing paintings of nudes were also sometimes exhibited as "Circassians".
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