YOU SAID:

Did not so much as fall as saunter vaguely downwards

INTO JAPANESE

漠然とした下向きの賢いほどには落ちなかった

BACK INTO ENGLISH

It did not fall like a vague downward wise

INTO JAPANESE

それは漠然とした下向きの賢いようには落ちなかった

BACK INTO ENGLISH

It did not fall like a vague downward wise