http://wordie.org/words/languid Comments for the word 'Languid' http://wordie.org/ http://wordie.org/words/languid#comments "At Combray and in Paris, all my grandmother's friends were in the habit of greeting one another at a social gathering with as seraphic an air as if they had caught sight of someone of their acquaintance in church, at the moment of the Elevation or during a funeral, and were offering him a languid greeting which ended in prayer."<br />--<em>Sodom and Gomorrah</em> by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 110 of the Modern Library paperback edition Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:26:40 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/languid#comments http://wordie.org/words/languid#comments "As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold." Jonathan Swift. Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:27:43 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/languid#comments