How to Use lassitude in a Sentence

lassitude

noun

• Symptoms of the disease include paleness and lassitude.
• Resistance begins to wane, and lassitude starts to set in.
  — Luc-Christophe Guillerm, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2021
• There has been, perhaps, no greater demonstration of strategic lassitude since the West watched passively as Germany rearmed in the 1930s.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• The movie is dogged by wobbly reasoning and dramaturgical lassitude, but at least one actor tries to spice it up.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
• But despite these peaks, the city still feels off, gnawed by anxiety, lassitude, and resignation.
  — Curbed, 15 Dec. 2022
• The movie’s rhythms are unhurried, though for the most part not indulgently so, and fit both the period and Antonio’s uneasy lassitude (which makes a stark contrast with the slaves’ work).
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• Paul Valéry wrote that a work of art is never completed but abandoned, perhaps through lassitude, yet that note of troubled exhaustion finds no echo here.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2017
• But in keeping with the troubled lassitude that marked the whole season, the consequences were muted, and more depressing than violent.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 8 June 2016
• In response to the fiscal lassitude, Indian government 10-year bond yields are ticking up, despite the slower growth.
  — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
• But this is a case where the infamous lassitude of the federal bureaucracy may work in America's favor.
  — Tyler Cowen, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
• This could be due to lassitude or desire to shirk responsibility for tough questions.
  — Mark Medish, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• But the contrast between the strength of the preshow exhibition (all those video eyes, making contact) and the lassitude of the show itself highlights how much even our finest theater artists are struggling to choreograph an actorless space.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 July 2021
• Today, paralyzing lassitude is often seen as a symptom of disease rather than of turpitude.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• A lot of it was simple apathy, and the steady abandonment on the part of the country of the obligations of self-government, and the concomitant lassitude as to their duties by the politicians elected by an apathetic electorate.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 July 2015
• This lassitude is enabled by an arrangement that is virtually unique among major directors: Allen is answerable to no one on his films.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• In an extremely subtle way, this may suggest a kind of lassitude and saiety which may well have been his intention; in all events, it is pronounced. and finally exasperating.
  — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• On a task of the utmost urgency, disarming the militia fighters who had dethroned the dictator but now threatened the nation’s unity, Mr. Feltman reported an alarming lassitude.
  — Scott Shane and Jo Becker, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2016
• Even minor characters—like the dead-eyed, constantly texting office manager, Stacy, played with droll lassitude by Salahuddin’s sister Zuri—have their own story arcs and funny quirks.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• The ensemble presents a relatively broadminded approach in its three concerts at Carnegie Hall, under the command of Valery Gergiev, who, depending on circumstance, will project either fervor or lassitude.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
• A quarter of Iran’s population is under the age of 14, close to half are under the age of 40, and almost all are struggling at a time of severe financial austerity and deep political lassitude toward their government, but also forces abroad.
  — Tara Kangarlou, Time, 18 June 2021
• More broadly, the lazy river is a sign of American indolence, of our collective postindustrial lassitude, the nation that once tamed the Mississippi now slumbering poolside, scrolling through Instagram.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2018
• In the lead-up to a big race, such lassitude can be compounded by a sudden severe case of germophobia, characterized by obsessive hand-washing, decreased displays of physical affection, and reluctance to take care of coughing toddlers.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2021
• The President’s lassitude was inversely related to his fiefdom’s pointless industry.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• The Ethics Committee cannot complete an investigation, or release to the public any details of an investigation, without Democratic and Republican support, which, in our era, helpfully explains its lassitude.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 June 2021
• Trump is not just aggressively but lawlessly exercising the interests of his place, counting on Congress, after decades of lassitude regarding its interests, being an ineffective combatant.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024