inertia

As the same scenes at the fair are repeated, if gradually expanded, inertia sets in, despite all the to-ing and fro-ing in time.

Dogged management will also be essential to break bureaucratic inertia and turf wars among the services.

Wasserman called the skyway remodel a “zombie project,” left over from a paused terminal expansion that included plans for two new concourses, “still moving forward on its own inertia.”

Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe—a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.

History is full of ambitious international agreements that collapse under self-interest, misaligned incentives or inertia.