Sentence examples for kind of torpid from inspiring English sources

Since 1840 the regime had settled into a kind of torpid stability; but it had provided the nation with peace abroad and relative prosperity at home.

"I cannot tell how," this is the second paragraph of our translation, "I cannot rightly tell how I entered there, I was so full of sleep at that moment". It's a kind of torpid lethargic, the lack of consciousness, the lack of any — everything — his faculties are dormant — let's paraphrase it like that.

It's July 2014 in a monsoonal, enervatingly humid New Orleans, the kind of feverishly torpid, exhausting Louisiana day that makes you hallucinate about fjords and ice-fishing.

(Anderson) ★ Eyehategod (Tuesday) Devotees of torpid, detuned sludge metal, your ship has come in.

Whether Hicksite, Wilburite, or Gurneyite, all branches of Quakerism began to show vigour unknown in their days of torpid unity.

By age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame.

The city is wilting in a summer heat wave, and the movie conveys a mood of torpid enervation.

However, a significant increase in acetyl-histone H3 in the heart of torpid lemurs indicated a possible stimulation of transcriptional activity of this tissue.

Lynchings, vultures, orgies and a barren landscape slowly dissolve into a cataclysm of torpid color (from Goya to Rothko), with a soundtrack of hip-hop cellphone rings.

His latest work to be published in English concerns a quintet of torpid young men who share a taste for karaoke, rock-paper-scissors, and "droolingly mindless" laughter.

It was also reduced in the cerebellum of torpid Syrian hamsters.