Sentence examples for inert phrases from inspiring English sources

Sustaining such a long book is a tough endeavor, and every so often his prose slackens into inert phrases ("his mind would be tumbling like a dryer").

The first movement depicts the vivification of inert matter, its shuddering phrases gradually assuming musical form as life takes shape.

Phrases are so polished that they become inert; narrative dissolves into immaculate moments.

Osborne himself has written of his despair, as a young actor, of trying to learn Somerset Maugham's dialogue: "Dead, elusively inert, wobbly like some synthetic rubber substance," was his typically damning phrase.

Inert ingenuity.

But inert?

It's inert.

The story remains inert.

An inert gas?

Aminta is often inert.

Mostly I was inert.