Sentence examples for inert person from inspiring English sources

You'd have to be a bit of an inert person not to respond to them.

Another component of the teen lexicon is the jargon of videogamers, origin of campet, an inert person (someone who "camps" on the fringes of the game); glicther, a cheat (a corruption of "glitch"), and zerg, to aggress (from the name of a race of hostile aliens).

He forces us to confront that after a person kills himself, the ruined, inert body stays behind.

(Eiffel's mother, he tells us, had to get him his first job, "seeing in the person of her son an inert object that wouldn't move unless pushed").

"A fragment of blue-and-white willow export porcelain thrown away in 1894 lies inert for 107 years until someone from the dig team finds it," Mr. Dion continued, "creating a momentary bridge to the person who lost or threw the object away".

Though there are no formal parameters in this aesthetic -- one person's inspiration is another's inert rock -- he has learned by experience that not all stones are equal.

This involves a special sort of category-mistake: 'Monads' Ward says—"are conative, that is are feeling and striving subjects or persons in the widest sense, not inert particles or things" (260).

The victim is perceived first as a person of consequence, then suddenly as an inert body subject to the laws of physics: authority is debunked by gravity, mind by matter; man is degraded to a mechanism.

I've long been fascinated by the idea that something as inert and harmless as a sugar pill could relieve a person's pain or hasten their recovery just by the expectation that it would.

She is encouraged to treat her whole person as a doll, "a passive object … an inert given object" (306), and learns the need to please others.

No person shall be required to submit to testing for inactive and/or inert residual cannabis metabolites as a condition of any right or privilege including employment or insurance, nor may the presence of such metabolites be considered in determining employment, other impairment, or intoxication.