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When these displaced, grief-laden men lingeringly intersect late in the novel, nothing really changes in terms of the plot but everything changes in terms of the book’s spiritual design.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

I'd like to have a relationship with his child, and for my children to know their cousin, but contact with my brother is always deeply, lingeringly awful.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

Notably, the record’s tendency to look at women – lingeringly, lovingly – extended to Marling herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2017

He then gave lingeringly searching gazes into our eyes.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2012

He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald