languorous
81sleepy — sleepily, adv. sleepiness, n. /slee pee/, adj., sleepier, sleepiest. 1. ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy. 2. of or showing drowsiness. 3. languid; languorous: a sleepy gesture. 4. lethargic; sluggish: a sleepy brook. 5. q …
82stained glass — stained glass, adj. glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, esp. by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc. [1785 95] *… …
83Adams, Ansel — born Feb. 20, 1902, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died April 22, 1984, Carmel, Calif. U.S. photographer. In 1927 he published Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, photographs that imitated Impressionist painting by suppressing detail in favour of… …
84Rameau, Jean-Philippe — (baptized Sept. 25, 1683, Dijon, France died Sept. 12, 1764, Paris) French composer and music theorist. Son of an organist, he held organist posts until he was 49. His Treatise on Harmony (1722) established him as a major music theorist. In it he …
85South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
86West, Mae — born Aug. 17, 1892/93, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 22, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. film actress. She performed with a Brooklyn stock company around 1901, and by 1907 she had become a performer on the national vaudeville circuit. She made… …
87chuanqi — ▪ Chinese drama Wade Giles romanization ch uan ch i a form of traditional Chinese operatic drama that developed from the nanxi in the late 14th century. Chuanqi alternated with the zaju as the major form of Chinese drama until the 16th… …
88passive — pas·sive / pa siv/ adj: not involving, deriving from, or requiring effort or active participation imposed a passive duty not to interfere; specif: of, relating to, or being business activity in which the investor does not have immediate control… …
89languor — noun a) a state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid feeling: lassitude languor of convalescence b) listless indolence; dreaminess …
90languorously — adverb In a languorous manner, without exertion, lazily. I stretched languorously, and then remained in bed …
