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The art of moving like time owes you money and you're in no hurry to collect.
means Moving or feeling slow, relaxed, and pleasantly lacking in energy or haste.
from From Latin languidus, 'faint, sluggish, weak,' built on the verb languere, 'to be faint or unwell.' It's a close cousin of 'languish' and 'languor,' all drawn from the same root that hints at a drooping, slackened state — possibly related to a wider family of words meaning 'to be loose or slack.' It drifted into English through French (languide) around the 16th century, softening over time from outright weakness into something more like luxurious idleness.
- latin root
- From languere, to be faint or weak
- poet's pet
- Keats and Byron worshipped its drowsy beauty
- heat link
- Tropical climates breed languid afternoons by design
- not lazy
- Implies slow elegance, not failure to function
for instance
venetian lagoon at sunset — shallow waterways of venice, italy moving imperceptibly at dusk