Bright Words, Word #1

Languid

“Some reefs,” he says, “are kinetic, like an abstract by Jackson Pollock.” Kimbe – Doubilet’s memory reef – is languid, “like an Impressionist painting, a Monet.” -- Newman, C. (2013, November) Paradise Revisited. National Geographic, 224(5)70.

Dictionary: (adj.) showing or having very little strength, energy or activity; sluggish; weak; lacking force or quickness of movement.

My take: U.S. Olympic gold medalist Shaun White’s dominance on the halfpipe was wiped out by his languid snowboard run over the powder in Sochi 2014, he fell to fourth and halted America’s 15-year reign in the sport.