Posted on 10/12/2011 5:01:54 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
languid \LANG-gwid\ - adjective
1. drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion; weak
2. sluggish in character or disposition; listless
3: lacking force or quickness of movement; slow
Example sentence:
The trial proceeded at a languid pace as each attorney called up a whole roster of witnesses to testify.
Extra Example sentence:
"From Gadhafi to Irene, the month that ended yesterday was hardly languid: London erupted, Steve Jobs resigned and the markets returned to crisis mode. Oh, and that earthquake, huh?" -- From a post by Zachary M. Seward on the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog, September 1, 2011
Did you know?
The letter L holds claim to a payload of words in English that connote a lack of energy or enthusiasm. Two of them -- "languid" and "languorous" -- derive from the same source, the Latin verb "languēre" ("to languish"). "Languid" describes the kind of sluggishness that one often experiences from fatigue or weakness ("the illness left her feeling languid"). "Languorous" applies more to someone who just doesn’t feel the will to get up and do anything ("he felt languorous on a rainy Sunday afternoon"). There is also "lackadaisical," which implies a halfhearted effort given from lack of care ("lackadaisical seniors just floating along until graduation"), as well as "listless," which suggests a lack of spirit caused by physical weakness, dissatisfaction, or sadness ("she was listless for a few weeks following the breakup").
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
The former Predator, Stevie Sullivan had a very good game.
Lang-Wed. == Mid-week sluggishness
Where are you this week?
we coaches are developing men for others.”
Men for Others is Gonzaga's motto.
They used to administer the company network through a command prompt, but then they got the lan gui’d.
It makes me want to read that book, Season of Life.
Glenn Beck had a great video from the wall street protesters - you could almost smell them from just watching. One girl wanted us all to go back to being hunter gatherers, sort of, she did admit that those who could not gather their own food would die. The guy doing the documentary asked for a moment of silence for Steve Jobs and some douche yelled out how Jobs was an example of capitalism, while many there held up their iphones.
seriously, i wish someone would just turn a firehose on them, but better yet, wait til its chillier out!
I’ve been thinking about their message - they hate corporations and capitalism so that means their “wymens studies” degrees can’t get them a job at Planned Parenthood, because it is a corporation. Their “Tribal Crafts in New Guinea” degrees aren’t going to be utilized at Toys R Us or Acorn - so their demand for jobs, non corporation backed, leaves independent tatoo parlors and outdoor yoga groups
Littleton CO
To visualise the word “languid”
One could picture a sleeping cat,
Or Michelle Antoinette eating cake
While lecturing on kids and fat
Like Miss Muffet on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey-
I’ll bet no spider is big enough
To scare Mrs. Michelle away
As she gobbles her way through
Many courses to thunder thighs
And clothes cut to hide her big ass
So no one will notice her size
Oh you got me - good catch!
Aaaaaaaaaargh! I’m of hispanic ancestry, but I think I can say this-
Maybe a park where Chavez duped lots of useful idiots should have a museum with a video of all the farm workers who became unemployed and lived in squalor because of his ridiculous demands. Or maybe some murals of Spanish soldiers slaughtering Indians on BOTH sides of the border, like the ones I’ve seen in Mexico-or a slide show of communist Lazaro Cardenas trying to turn his home state into a Marxist hellhole-the list just goes on...
"we coaches are developing men for others."
Men for Others is Gonzaga's motto.
"It's a cookbook!" (No pun intended ... no, wait!)
You see Jonah was at Gonzaga the other day?
I did! Wish I knew whose class he spoke to!
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