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The crucial difference is that with Hamlet I felt it was important to be provocative because the play is so famous it is inert.
The first breakthrough in this quest was the discovery that gold utensils, as well as looking fabulous, are inert and so do not interfere with the flavour of food or drink.
The great-painter biopic can be an inert subgenre: many film-makers assume that merely showing artistry, with furious brow-furrowing and brush-stabbing, amounts to sharing it.
Silver is quite inert , but has a lower electrode potential than gold and so does react with some foods and indeed the mouth, producing a mild metallic taste.
Over time, even the nominally inert among us were made increasingly aware of their own inertia.
Another is to separate fissile uranium from the inert sort in a gas centrifuge.
Luxembourg's freeport, which is scheduled to open next summer, recently conducted a roadshow for insurers that highlighted the facility's state-of-the-art safety features, including fire-fighting systems that suck oxygen from the air while releasing inert gas instead of water, so as not to damage art.Insurance is cheaper for those willing to park assets in remote places.
It needs to do something drastic to downsize its bloated, rigid and inert financial system and make it fit, flexible and fleet of foot.
Aristotle argued that an inert commodity like silver, which did not bear fruit, should not carry interest.The concept of usury (an excessive interest rate) was developed by the Catholic Church, although the parable of the talents implies that money should be set to work.
Liberal Democrat MPs, who see their seats threatened by a revived Tory party that has learned to whistle many of their best tunes on green and social issues, are no longer willing to tolerate Charles Kennedy's inert leadership.
His typically donnish assessment of the first few times he slept with Consuela might have served as a blurb for the novel as a whole: "controlled by narcissism, by exhibitionism, and despite the energetic display, despite the audacity...strangely inert".
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The word "inert" primarily functions as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something that lacks the ability or tendency to move, react, or participate actively. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in describing states of inactivity or non-reactivity.
Expression frequency: Very common
