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Meanings of torpidity in English
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Examples for "torpor"
Examples for "torpor"
1
This spot was the one point of energy in the universal torpor.
2
The stench was crisply nauseating, with a cold torpor of lukewarm sea.
3
The rest of the afternoon he dozed in a species of torpor.
4
She had recovered from the fatal torpor in the cool night air.
5
The shock had been too great; his deadly torpor deepened into death.
1
He dropped his pen in sudden listlessness, crossed aimlessly to the window.
2
Hildegard submitted with demure listlessness, and soon re-appeared in her walking costume.
3
Next to madness occur the different stages of spleen, dejection and listlessness.
4
So he worked on, no longer in listlessness, but with contemptuous amusement.
5
The childish expression left the girl's eyes, the listlessness left her attitude.
Usage of torpidity in English
1
The extraordinary torpidity of the surrounding objects gradually affected the persons.
2
Life in the tropics, I take to be a placid torpidity.
3
Oppressed with grief, She continued for some time in this state of torpidity.
4
Do you know that you have roused the torpidity of Clarke at last?
5
It was only a temporary torpidity of the nerves, which I mistook for calmness.
6
When the door closed behind them, the cavaliers seemed to awaken from their torpidity.
7
I wonder now, how long this torpidity in the psychic germ has lasted in you?
8
The Russian delegates at this congress were impressive only for their arrogance and mental torpidity.
9
The period, however, is not one of general torpidity or repose for animal or vegetable life.
10
Hibernation, half hibernation and just torpidity and laziness.
11
But notwithstanding this torpidity, She was coming, and that day stood apart from all other days.
12
The torpidity leaves the snakes and the turtles, and they come forth and bask in the sun.
13
A strange torpidity had come over him; every rising day gazed into his eyes with a fierce unmeaning glare.
14
After a year and a half of congealed torpidity, the March wind once more began to blow in his soul.
15
His usual thoughtlessness and torpidity upon the subject of religion leaves him, and he becomes a serious and deeply-interested creature.
16
His dulness, torpidity and indecision, and her frivolity, narrow-minded prejudices and suspiciousness, are among the causes of our present calamities.
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Torpidity through the time