languor of convalescence

JAMES CARTER: You smell a little funky; I think you stepped in some rat shit.

However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have. It certainly worked for me, I would get really aggressive and get fired up 'cause it's a motivational device they used.