torpidity

As to my being a torpedo, if the torpedo is torpid as well as the cause of torpidity in others, then indeed I am a torpedo, but not otherwise; for I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself.

I think, according to the good-hearted word of Plato, "Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth." Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight.

But you can only build characters from the script you have, and this is lifeless material, its torpidity exacerbated by its flabby runtime.

Various metabolic rates, torpidity, sleep and migration are all discussed in this section.

mexicana roosting in the bridge included a general visual and auditory assessment of bat activity during each visit (e.g., flight activity, bats moving in slots versus torpidity, presence of vocalizations, etc.).

For Nietzsche, the sign of decadence is "that life no longer dwells in the whole." Its fruits are a loss of vital, animating spirit, a constriction of the "exuberance of life into the smallest forms." "Everywhere paralysis, arduousness, torpidity, or hostility and chaos: both more obvious the higher one ascends in forms of organization.

The 50 minute therapy will certainly be unwinding while a current of sound and light power permeates with the skin and begins to break up the blockage and torpidity with the Lymphatic System.

The question of whether, and if so to what extent, the emphasis on empiricistic principles and scientific method and the transcending of the realm of the spirit and values had entailed a sort of "moral torpidity and complicity in the abominations of the Hitler regime" (8) was also taken up by Ross.

Which is no excuse for yesterday's torpidity, merely an explanation.

This stable but stagnant state is one where irony's sharp and unsettling power to dissatisfy and admonish has largely dissipated, resulting in torpidity and apathy.