Decades ago, I saw "Grey Gardens" as a story of a festering delusion of the American aristocracy and the closed circles of high society decaying into inanition and dependency.
For all this, periods of decline and inanition may be expected, though not everywhere at once.
I was starting to think that the marriage of Wallis and Edward was one of those relationships, like that of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, of which we have heard enough, and that all books and films on the topic should be outlawed, for fear of public inanition.
Inanition and mere things have overwhelmed the human presence, as in one of Antonioni's empty urban landscapes.
On the pavement, Bernhardt erected his tripod and his tilted umbrella, and I prepared myself to enter the usual trance of inanition — forgetting that in this part of Eurasia, at least for now, there was no longer any small talk.
The lack of noise and temperament may be soothing, but inanition is hardly, in itself, a source of spirituality.
It's a film devoted to inanition, made with considerable artistry, but it's far from a work of art.
And he was appalled by sloth and inanition.
According to his death certificate, the cause of death was "malnutrition and inanition" brought on by "personality disturbance".
This state of inanition is splendidly summoned in the play's opening, silent moments, in which Burns stares forlornly at a blood-stained wall (remember Murray?) and Quinn, frozen in a Charles Atlas stance, ponders something that is definitely not cooking on a cold barbecue grill.
