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  • Bajaj is protective of the provenance of the Bombay Club's culinary and atmospheric appeal, which channels a colonial-era langor, or as lobbyist Boozer puts it, feels like walking into the movie 'Casablanca.'

    Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011

  • Bajaj is protective of the provenance of the Bombay Club's culinary and atmospheric appeal, which channels a colonial-era langor, or as lobbyist Boozer puts it, feels like walking into the movie 'Casablanca.'

    Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011

  • It turns out that about 6 point mutations have shown up in the langor which are the same in the cow.

    Demarcation as Politics 2006

  • The langor and the cow use an enzyme for digestion which also is used as an antibacterial in other animals.

    Demarcation as Politics 2006

  • The kicker is that the langor has been ruminating for 25 million years, and has pulled off a total of 6 "beneficial" mutations in this enzyme in that time.

    Demarcation as Politics 2006

  • In this case it is the langor monkey, which chews its cud like a cow.

    Demarcation as Politics 2006

  • The emphasis on sin, perhaps inevitable in a place so overtly dedicated to the material majesty of God, and in which the spiritual majesty has to be taken for granted by those less than entirely gullible, gives one a feeling of turpitude and langor.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • The thought of new difficulties to encounter wakened his fighting spirit; he was strangely elated and the dreadful langor which had seized him during his journey disappeared.

    The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Elma Ehrlich Levinger

  • All that Earth has of most sweet, softest, easiest, most suggestive of langor and love, of fertility and abundance -- here is seen in one vision beside all that Nature has most hard, most cruel, most unkind to

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885

  • If we search for eminent piety, we shall be likely to discover it, not in scenes of prosperity, not in the dwellings of the healthful and vigorous, but in the house of affliction: and on the bed of langor and pain.

    A Word of Comfort for the Sick Soldier. 1861

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