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Sentence Examples It remains to be seen whether the American populace will wake from their torpor, put down the remote, and do something. However, he markedly improves in his soft-spoken soliloquies, as he brings a genuine depth of feeling in conveying his domestic torpor. She is living with them in conditions of domestic comfort but emotional torpor in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth. These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt. The icy torpor and infertility of the Pontic landscape become indices of the poet's own frozen creativity. The lash cracked in the air, the sharp sound waking all the slaves from their torpor. This may also be due to the apathy, bordering on torpor, concerning most elements of conventional politics and theories of power. Hasn't the Church always regained her strength in times of moral torpor by recalling the heights from which it has fallen? Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor. Behind the picture-book porticos, manicured lawns and mile-wide smiles lie anxiety, self-loathing and torpor. The chorus has that air of resigned lethargy and torpor which regularly lowers over those with little or no hope. The conventional view now is of an uneducated, largely illiterate proletariat sitting in moronic torpor until the beginnings of state education. When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor. Indeed, if they find themselves restrained by a new gripping torpor, they will soon weary of being part of the EU family. The Young Patriot Essay Contest will be discontinued due to the indolence and torpor of the modern youth. The grass snake is less active during the winter, and this condition is often referred to as torpor. Montrealers are ruminating on the uncharacteristic torpor that has struck since Christmas. That should keep people busy denouncing my moral torpor today! The use of torpor by the Mohave ground squirrel contrasts sharply with the behavior of the antelope ground squirrel in the same desert environment. Birna shopped till I dropped, then dragged the children off towards the Vatican leaving me to blear about the piazzas in a dreamy Lemsip torpor. Show More Sentences In the Middle Ages, acedia, spiritual torpor or gloom, was regarded as a sin. Three years of frustration at the torpor he found at the centre of the party spills out. United, on their part, must throw off this torpor before Liverpool arrive on Sunday. More than a decade of economic torpor, and a vicious national downturn in 2001, hit the region especially hard, however. If that cannot shake the international community out of their torpor, nothing will. Not until 15 April was the general torpor disturbed even a little, at the time allotted to resolutions on individual countries. The devastating French raids in Newfoundland in 1696 and 1697 shook the authorities in London out of their torpor. Between periods of torpor, chipmunks wake up and consume part of their food supply. If the Church in Quebec some day rises from its current torpor, She will owe much of it to this humble yet great Jesuit. It's considered to be the sword of Monju, the sword which cuts through torpor and ignorance, and it is treated as such. We are going to have to fight against the social torpor that threatens to engulf us. It is the waiting of a heart that is alert, that awakens from its torpor, and every day nourishes itself and strengthens Love. The curtains of her eyelids had been drawn for a little while now, and torpor was beginning to take hold of her body. Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow. But this is a guy who was lifted out of his generic teenage torpor only by endlessly listening to records, and who really believes music is the only reason for existing. During the spell of inertia that weaves around the village and the scorching heat which regularly topped 100 degrees we fell into a state of not unpleasant torpor. Montgomery's is a confident production that doesn't need to sensationalise to express the moral torpor and emotional immaturity of the characters. But it was first and foremost an attempt to wake up America from the torpor of the daily grind under its meritocratic overlords. But we do not accept this fate with the torpor of other city dwellers. What matters is that this Europe does not stay looking on, in its torpor and its rhetoric, but instead makes itself active and efficacious in practice on the international scene. Show More Sentences These are times of torpor in Paris, politically as well as economically. However, the people of Europe are gradually overcoming their torpor following the overthrow of socialism in Europe and are preparing for a counter-attack. The wake-up call has already sounded, based on projects that enjoy wide support, and which are pragmatic and fit the needs of Europeans, who alone will enable Europe to shake off its current torpor. Since bats, when they are present, enter a state of torpor under such conditions, the recording devices were not installed, and no recordings were made at that time. The heat is calming, torpor civilizes, you are warmly welcomed. If no one will stand up, they had better sink into their natural torpor and inertia and follow Mr. Bachand's advice to stay home and avoid all festivals in Quebec this summer. The United States representative ought to have awoken from his political torpor and refrained from delivering sermons at the very time when 185 Member States had voted against the embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba. Bats, like other mammalian hibernators, arouse periodically between torpor bouts during hibernation. A combination of political torpor and economic fragility has once again raised questions about the precariousness of the country's position. A few months ago things looked rosier. In the past year, a plethora of think-tanks sympathetic to Labour have been founded a marked contrast to the general intellectual torpor that distinguished much of Labour's 18 years in opposition. The surveys point to further malaise extending into the fourth quarter, adding to the impression that there are few signs of the region pulling out of this torpor. The mild oceanic torpor of Essaouira is an invitation to rest and let go. With other elements, the odor of tear gas, the fires, the city shaken out of its torpor on the day of the death, it has remained etched, palpitating and inexhaustible. A diffuse, light torpor, unlike that of so many other Senegalese villages. Most powerful stimulants, they can never be required except by the torpor of an unawakened, or the languor of an exhausted, appetite. Smell fresh, invigorating, sweet and sparkling, use to promote concentration, stimulate creativity, eliminate the torpor and fight against procrastination. Touted as outsiders for the championship and arriving in town with the avowed intention of reaching the final, the side coached by Eduardo Rergis only roused themselves from their torpor when time had run out. Despite the modern look that distinguishes Caltanissetta from the other towns of the interior, this provincial capital lies in the same listless torpor that characterizes many countries in the Sicilian hinterland. In hibernating species, males are known mate with females in torpor. Examples from Classical Literature Everywhere there was the same torpor, the same wornout, desiccated life in death. The bodies prone in them seemed startled out of their torpor by his movement. His Polonaises, characterized by an energetic rhythm, galvanize and electrify the torpor of indifference. But after this brief display of energy the Spartans relapsed into their wonted torpor. He only issued from his torpor at night to fall into blind and puerile fits of anger. I did not want to move again, and the torpor seemed to me thoroughly delicious. As a condiment it is useful in torpor and coldness of the digestive organs. These completed, he sank into a state of torpor from which nothing seemed to rouse him. Garden dormice were found to use a short sleep called torpor to save energy when there isn't much food around. In India you will easily believe that the torpor is still unbroken. Suddenly, amid her torpor, she sprang out of bed and ran into the studio. She was the only one of his family who could rouse the old man from the torpor in which he seemed to live. With the world at large lapsing into an Americanised torpor we want something we can identify with, and that is a local accent on local radio. Feelings of weakness, limpness, torpor are fatigue and often attend feelings of inadequacy. Germaine got out of her torpor, and complained of indigestion. The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness. In this torpor the echinoderms and even the molluscs live to-day. It was the invigorating breath of a fresh outward atmosphere, after the long torpor and monotonous seclusion of her life. In my state of torpor I was not, however, long left in peace. The snarl of the wolf had roused the sleeper from his torpor. Show More Sentences For the most remarkable aspect of the affair was, that, at the cessation of the music, everybody was petrified at once, from the most extravagant life into a dead torpor. The same torpor, as regarded the capacity for intellectual effort, accompanied me home, and weighed upon me in the chamber which I most absurdly termed my study. But at last the roar of a bigger and nearer break than usual brought her out of her torpor, and she looked up, and her practiced eye fell upon that telltale rush of water. Protecting him is Dante's son Pietro, who welcomes the plots and intrigues of the Veronese court, hoping they will shake the young man out of his torpor. On the level of incident, The Pregnant Widow is a 300-plus page 'What I Did on My Summer Vacation' essay, duplicating all too well the sunstruck torpor of an extended holiday. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of torpor? Words that rhyme with torpor What is the plural of torpor? What is the adverb for torpor? What is the adjective for torpor? What is the noun for torpor? Translations for torpor Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words torpidly torpidity torpid torpedos torpedo-like torpedoing torporific Torquay torque torqued torques torquey 6-letter Words Starting With t to tor torp torpo