Sentence examples for inert arm from inspiring English sources

He looked down at his inert arm.

Yes, death and grieving are at the center of "The Year of Magical Thinking," but the play is also, unmistakably, an epic catalog of love, of happiness detailed with the same clinical precision Ms. Didion brings to bear on the paraphernalia left by the paramedics on her living room floor and on the pharmacopeia of antibiotics dribbling into her daughter's inert arm.

As a 12-year-old, he suffered irreparable damage to his spinal column during a football game; at first, he could manage with crutches, but later, inert in arms and legs, he was confined to a wheelchair.

However, the use of efficient catalyst base; the use of hydrophilic and inert spacer arms; and the careful selection of the enzyme residues involved in the immobilization are some of the strategies toward curbing the steric obstacles.

In 2004 Wager and his colleagues applied an inert cream to the arms of 50 volunteers, then pressed a painfully hot ceramic plate against their arms while the subjects were inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine.

The traffic halted near Fifth Avenue so I had time to frantically scan the grassy rise for signs of an arm waving for help or, worse, an inert body.

Prissie lay in his arms with rigid limbs hanging from loose attachments, inert, like a doll.

It is a biphasic variant of gene therapy in which a bacterium, armed with an enzyme that can convert an inert prodrug into a cytotoxic compound, induces tumour cell death following tumour-specific prodrug activation.

The device was determined to be a three-foot (.9-m) long TOW missile used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs; although actually inert, it had been marked "live" in order to mislead arms traffickers in a planned law enforcement sting.

Third, there is debate over the use of active (i.e. designed to mimic expected side effects of trial drug) or inert placebos, and the effect of this on the ability of doctors and patients to guess which trial arm they are in.

Mr. Williamson — head forward, arms dangling impotently at his side — has the look down, but the character's anger remains inert.