torpidity

The jumping mouse goes into an even deeper state of torpidity.

Oppressed with grief, She continued for some time in this state of torpidity.

And here, they may actually win, thanks largely to Microsoft's famous torpidity in releasing software.

The manatee is, in principle, much like a small whale, but the torpidity of its movement makes it unique among aquatic animals.

This has created uniformity, insularity, risk-aversion, torpidity and often mediocrity.

In this town of 21,000 just west of Newark, the community pool is the foremost ecstatic escape during the summer torpidity.

He opened the door for Gwen and Ollie, stepping out of their way with creaking torpidity.

He had cooled off during the night, since the tremendous muscular dynamo of his body had cut down into torpidity.

The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding, shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.

There are seasonal variations in torpidity.

After only a few successful uses, the mentally coupled Navigators had collapsed into brain-dead torpidity.

My reasoning is perhaps not the same as Paul's-but I say again that without risk there can be no evolution, only torpidity and finally extinction.

Churchill was attempting to build a victorious war machine from the remains of years worth of overconfidence and torpidity.

What Yale Repertory didn't count on was the tepidity of the play and the torpidity of the race.

Intelligence set free from molecular torpidity could dash across immensities, unchecked by all but the gritty limits of matter's innate resistance.

Carpe Diem--it's the only way from consumer slavery and torpidity.

Have I got to stand another month of this torpidity before I can begin to browse among the lively capitals of Europe?

His words sounded like thunder to her ears: She awoke from her torpidity only to be sensible of the dangers of her situation.

Mr. Cuomo, often blamed for the party's ideological torpidity, said: "That's what's wrong with the Democratic Party.

Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is, but by a supposed necessity, which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight.

The Crocodile was an old freed- man of Agrippa's whom we called that because of his torpidity and greed and his enormous jaws.

Perhaps it's left to us, the Dining section's tasting panel, to rescue brown ales from marketing torpidity and reveal the vitality within, for these beers are anything but dull.

They are even more surprised when they find all the Krath guardsmen huddled around a fire in the semi-hibernation torpidity that extreme cold induces in their species.

Later on, after thorough studies and discussion, Brenta and Bacchiglione rivers were excluded owing to their torpidity and the presence of bacteria.

Respond to violence, speed and noise not with violence, speed and noise but with ponderous torpidity, envelop each new threat in slownesss."