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
We do not know what conditions, what natural provisions precede torpidity and are essential to it; but possibly there are some, which in these cases were compulsorily precluded by human interference.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
A sharp observer, however, would have seen that it was not mere torpidity which made the headman sit so quietly.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
