torpidity
Example Sentences
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Reva worries about her friend’s torpidity, at the way she is self-eaten, like a consumptive.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2018
“We have gone through a very long period of diplomatic stagnation, torpidity and rigidity.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2012
PRO: With Oscar-telecast expectations at an all-time low, his all-singing, all-dancing, even-more-singing hosting gig managed to goose ratings, and almost rescued the show from its self-imposed torpidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
No mention is made of Purgatory or torpidity.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
Is there not some danger, we ask, that the mind will be benumbed into perpetual torpidity by the influence of this soporific sapience?
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
