Sentence examples for but inert from inspiring English sources

But inert?

The production was handsome but inert.

These are longer acting and are active when taken by mouth but inert if injected.

Active gases are pumped by chemical combination, but inert gases are not pumped.

He may not know how to create anything else certainly his movie adaptation of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" was all but inert.

He also presents two monumental but inert nude torsos, one male, one female; bland portraits carved from flat panels; and two small giraffes.

Without criticizing anyone too much, the local television one finds on broadcast television tends to be more tabloid-oriented news or obligatory Sunday-morning do-good-but-inert material.

Forced to maintain the illusion of romance with dreary Peeta (square-jawed Josh Hutcherson) but actually devoted to smouldering-but-inert Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Katniss simply accepts that the problems of three people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, leaving the boys to do the angsty moping while she gets on with the more important task of saving her community.

Almost all long books have their longueurs – few readers are riveted by every single page of War and Peace – but here, the slow passages are not just slow, but stonily inert.

Paula Cooper features an enormous but comparatively inert concrete block work, a six-sided structure you can see into but can't enter (Johnson).

There were four already, but economically inert.