Sentence examples for immobile things from inspiring English sources

Science thus requires that it bear on immobile things.

The thing's immobile, too heavy to be theatrically manhandled like Mercury's mic stand, too expensive to smash up like Townshend's Rickenbacker.

He was holding it in his arms, pronouncing the thing draped there, immobile, "fine" and rushing to a jeep with it, his smile so sincere she understood that she had never truly been loved.

But one thing that is inherently immobile is our infrastructure.

Where before, the citizens felt passive and immobile, part of the furniture of the world, a thing among things, they come to experience themselves as agents, as actors in their own drama.

Matter of itself is immobile.

He was overjoyed by Barack Obama's election, but could not forget the poor, immobile blacks revealed by Hurricane Katrina.He yearned to improve things, but wondered how.

The studies are part of an emerging picture of life among plants, one in which these organisms, long viewed as so much immobile, passive greenery, can be seen to sense all sorts of things about the plants around them and use that information to interact with them.

This case is one of merely confused mobile supposition, and where not even this sort of thing can be done, we have merely confused immobile supposition.

That there is now continued research dollars — and significant media space — being spent on debating the notion that having a small child sit immobile before a screen can in any way be beneficial shows two things: the amazing power of wishful thinking and the problem too many parents have with taking ownership of their actions.

(1903, 6-7) {§5.1} [Analysis] operates always on the immobile, whilst intuition places itself in mobility, or, what comes to the same thing, in duration.