| The history of the Bank provides ample testimony to its propensity for torpidity. |
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| I know I'm handsome, but that is no reason for you to stand there in torpidity. |
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| Their lives are an endless chain of moments of torpidity, but the pain of these soulless beings is so visibly real it is impossible to be bored. |
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| We have gone through a very long period of diplomatic stagnation, torpidity and rigidity. |
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| An all pervasive sense of intolerable torpidity hangs heavy in the air. |
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| Despite the enthusiastic overtures which the dawn of a new season brings, Clark admits he will quickly lose his appetite if matches descend into torpidity. |
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| The torpidity of this sick animated humaness is a figuration of the total energic flow of this world-body in which life-and-death are its metabolic currents. |
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| Widespread torpidity on the part of our elected representatives does little to improve public perceptions, either. |
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| A short but surprising chapter explores daily torpidity among hummingbirds, swifts, poorwills, chickadees, and vultures. |
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| In another case, involving illegal slot-machines, federal police questioned one of Lula's brothers over alleged influence-peddling. The government seems trapped in torpidity. |
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| Some nightjars are able to cope with temporary food shortages by entering into periods of torpidity, a faculty they share with some swifts, hummingbirds, and a few others. |
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| 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. |
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| Torpidity in the White-throated Swift, Anna Hummingbird and Poorwill. |
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