languishing

A decade ago, Alber Elbaz was a designer out to prove that he had the capacity to revive the languishing house of Lanvin.

He did not seem to her like a man; he reminded her rather of the languishing angels she embroidered.

Then the weapon fell from the hand of the odalisk, and the madly-distended eyes and lips resumed their languishing smile.

Another five minutes found them eating like young wolves around a languishing fire.

The sun was higher, the dew exhaled in warm and languishing perfume, the mocking-bird filled the air with ecstasy.

Could it be possible that under the sting of rejection he had made his grotesque threat of languishing effacement real?