Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily. |
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All the members called him Sloth, which perfectly reflected his sluggish and torpid personality. |
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Later on, the caffeine seems to wear off, and torpid ballads take over as the singer ventures repeatedly into a strained falsetto. |
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The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible. |
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As the discerning stare of the procuress suggests, the eagerness of the suitor is by no means matched by his torpid purchase. |
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David, perhaps you could say more about this than I can, but I think in the most extreme case it leads to the animal becoming completely torpid. |
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They may survive the winter, when fewer insects are available, by becoming torpid. |
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In the evening, if you stand on the Roman bridge, you can watch men wading the torpid cressy river, carrying pans. |
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The white bass are on their annual spawning migration out of torpid Toledo Bend and into the living, breathing Sabine River. |
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It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state. |
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Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour. |
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We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate. |
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A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow. |
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Whatever it is, they like it that way, and bleary-eyed and torpid they fin, in just enough slow motion to keep themselves in accurate alignment. |
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Sheep were torpid, and even with binoculars, there wasn't a walker moving anywhere. |
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This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst. |
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Energy requirements when euthermic and torpid, as well as the frequency of arousals, vary strongly with ambient temperature. |
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Brain waves, absent when the animal is deeply torpid, return spontaneously. |
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Sweeping lawsuits like the ones brought by Lowry have long been a favorite tool for shaking up torpid child welfare bureaucracies. |
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But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid. |
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Beholding it, I feel that my usual ways of looking are torpid to the point of dishonoring the world. |
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Some might say that this torpid pace is the price of unimpeachable justice but, rightly or wrongly, it smacks of failure to the public. |
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Few would quarrel with efforts to clean up Hungary's torpid and sleazy public sector. |
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The bureaucracy is torpid, state industries creaky and banks take a month to cash a cheque. |
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He who arises disregarding the purity and perfection of Mary is torpid, because in his ignorance he defies God, denying His power. |
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The body being torpid, the spirit tries to break his chain, and seeks, in the past or in the future, for the means of doing so. |
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Yes, you often hear words, and even whole sentences, especially when your senses begin to grow torpid. |
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This Narcisse so torpid and shy allowed Skouratoff the entrance in the young ballet' world, already on its full effervescence. |
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Beware of meningeal, vascular or cerebral complications, as well as torpid frontal osteitis, extremely rare but very serious! |
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If, after your frustrating rush-hour road-rage journey to the gym, you're still a bit torpid, keep your wits by reminding yourself that it's all in your mind. |
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The Academy Awards ceremony this year was a largely boring and torpid affair, dominated by the deeply misguided self-satisfaction of nearly all involved. |
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Several nights and hours of the same, torpid information pouring out of tired talking teacher types did not suggest deep emotional or entertainment value. |
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Yet the field of Italian economic history is anything but torpid. |
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His now torpid brain couldn't remember his former master well, but he knew enough to recognize him as the cause of his current level of frustration and pain. |
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But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle. |
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The fire of course revives the torpid scorpion, which then menaces Margaret but is eventually subdued when they manage to throw it into a pot of boiling water. |
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Dead moths had been glued to tree trunks, or moths released in desired positions during daylight, when they are torpid and remain where they land. |
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One day I saw a striped snake run into the water and he lay on the bottom more than a quarter of an hour, perhaps because he had not yet fairly come out of the torpid state. |
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To conserve energy, heterothermic bats during long migrations may go into a torpid state while roosting in the daytime, and flying at night. |
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It is even not beyond the bounds of possibility that a torpid, retrospective approach to domestic and foreign policy will take hold based on asset maintenance and aversion to change. |
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Indeed, maritime pollutions are often torpid, just like the numerous boats that degas with impunity, taking profit of a badly established legislation. |
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Today the shade was being enjoyed by a herd of torpid earthpigs, gorged on a feast of ants. |
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Though it still has a torpid air, Vientiane is growing fast in the hands of a Communist kleptocracy whose members queue up on Saturdays in their big cars to cross the Mekong for a dose of shopping across the border. |
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Or there's Ed Cowan, master of the gritty, run-every-10-balls knock that finishes in the mid-20s, a strokeplayer so torpid he's more like a specialist nightwatchman than a genuine top order batsman. |
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He was a German scholar who launched himself in 1933, among charming but undirected English amateurs, into the torpid field of architectural history. |
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There's also an almost too-thorough documentary about the World Trade Center and a tepid, torpid docudrama about the White House's response to the attacks. |
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Rush developed a variation of this spinning approach called the Gyrator, a horizontal board on which torpid patients were strapped and spun to stimulate blood circulation. |
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So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. |
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