He was felled by a chronic kidney ailment, having succeeded quite nicely nevertheless, even over such a minute stretch of history, at restoring the never-dormant atmosphere of Big Fear throughout the land, as well as at inching the world ever so much closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Politicized crackdowns on communal living and the revival of long-dormant town ordinances have resulted in curbing the party atmosphere in many areas.
The febrile US political atmosphere seems to have stirred something long-dormant in three major American novelists, all of whom publish fine new books in the coming months.
The fact today is that Mars orbital environment includes orbiters and perhaps debris, and that its atmosphere and its surface include terrestrial compounds and dormant microorganisms.
Earlier in the week — an evening in late spring — I had landed in Quito, Ecuador's capital, which sprawls at 9,350 feet along the base of an active volcano in a distinctive atmosphere of thin air and diesel fumes that aroused dormant memories of the semester I had spent there during college.
We have volcanoes: after lying dormant for centuries, Mount Pinatubo, in Luzon, erupted in 1991, spewing so much ash into the atmosphere that global temperatures fell almost a degree.
Yet the globe continues to pour heat trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in record amounts and U.S. policy to reduce domestic emissions is virtually dormant.
The emotional atmosphere that we've come to associate with mass murder does not typically stay dormant and unrecognized for half a century.
"Since warming Mars effectively reverts it to its past, more habitable state, this would give any possibly dormant life on Mars the chance to be revived". She and her colleagues created a computer model of the Martian atmosphere, and tested it with a series of fluorine-based gases.
They were comfortably dormant.
