The opposite side had looked inert, he thought, so he imported a white storefront from Amsterdam.
They are meant to show "wilderness reclaiming its power," according to the news release, but at this scale they look inert and unthreatening.
The Yankees looked inert in the early innings, and felt the same way, as if they all needed a good dose of caffeine.
Either way, you looked inert and withdrawn, as if you had been fatally influenced by the catatonic character you played in Awakenings.
But scraps of architecture, even big ones, ultimately look inert, while Matta-Clark's actions entailed forms of pyrotechnical, swashbuckling athleticism that come across best in the films and the photographs, and which speak to his glamorous roots.
Because the wing cannot lift itself without electricity, it looks oddly inert as it ascends.
The collages on which these tapestries are based, along with related prints and bronze sculptures — all looking fairly inert — are in one gallery.
Only Alexei Ratmansky's choreography for "Symphony No. 9" has brought her into full focus; in other roles her long waist and slender neck look strangely inert.
In last week's basement duel at Mainz (a 0-0 snoozer) he'd looked positively inert, as if he'd just about given in.
When the film was revived in London on Imax screens about a decade ago, some of the background looked weirdly inert, like the illustrations of a much-loved children's storybook projected on to the side of a building.
