How To Use Immobility In A Sentence
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When they notice Jim, they freeze into immobility, and only when he has stayed still for a considerable length of time, making no sudden moves, do they return to their slow hunt for nuts and roots.
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Each was implied when he lamented the 'agitation' and 'immobility' of recent presidencies.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was drunken to the point of incoherence and damaged to almost physical immobility.
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No mechanism can tolerate long periods of immobility.
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They are making up for the years of enforced immobility by becoming the world's most adventurous travellers.
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Although fixed fortifications can deter assault, they have one exploitable weakness: their immobility.
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Unmoving, but in her immobility lay a new freedom, one that was fundamental but unfathomable, simple but unknowable, pure but ungraspable.
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Looked back upon from revolutionary times, the old regime, good or bad, seemed an age of immobility and changeless routine, when nothing of importance had happened, or could happen.
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Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the
Swann's Way
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The wish for security may be represented by position, mere immobility; the wish for new experience by the greatest possible freedom of movement and constant change of position; the wish for response, by the number and closeness of points of contact; the wish for recognition, by the level desired or reached in the vertical plane of superordination and subordination.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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She presented with pain and stiffness and immobility of the neck and upper back.
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The semiochemical is even strong enough to awaken lab sharks from tonic immobility, an induced, ‘death-feigning’ state during which researchers can go so far as to perform surgery without arousing the animal.
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Avoid immobility, especially after surgery.
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He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Ankylosing (immobility and fixation) of the back gives rise to the ‘poker back’, and sclerosis or fusing of the sacroiliac joints leads to immobility and low back pain.
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Her very immobility, her stillness in a world running after vanity, makes her a heroine.
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These include problems of servicing loans, high maintenance and repair costs, and geographical and social immobility caused by unsaleability.
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That alone which he describes as immobility belongs to the circular movement.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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When spinal deformity, weakness, or immobility is present, height measurement is difficult and inaccurate.
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For a nine-year-old boy, the immobility was the worst form of torture.
Hope Unseen
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The ‘bridging loan’, a loan to tide you over when you have bought a new house but have yet to sell or complete the sale on your last home, is vital to the property market which would almost certainly become superglued as housing chains become jammed into immobility.
More Serial Labour Incompetence
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Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet.
Try Anything Twice
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Sorry about the immobility, it was a strong dose they gave you this time.
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Over doing it can cause excessive pain and immobility, thwarting your training program.
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He is resented by his wife, who feels déclassé because of her husband's unambitious upward immobility, which includes his taking unchic banjo lessons.
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Public transport was finally restored on Thursday, after three days immobility.
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These factors include hypogonadism, alcoholism, chronic steroid use, previous gastrectomy, chronic lung disease, pernicious anemia and disorders of movement and balance that increase the risk of immobility.
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In dumminess, or immobility, the hanging position of the head and the stupid expression are rather characteristic.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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This natural protective reaction needs to be discouraged after surgery to avoid the complications of immobility.
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No one has ever filmed these "killing machines" mating, but they are assumed to use an ocean form of date-rape called tonic immobility: the male knocks the female into a trance-like state then plunges his two sperm-delivery "claspers" into her.
The Guardian World News
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Prolonged immobility and cramped seating are present in many forms of travel.
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This natural protective reaction needs to be discouraged after surgery to avoid the complications of immobility.
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A twig cracked loudly underfoot and he froze into immobility.
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In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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The immobility, or bruteness, of Nature is the absence of spirit.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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Preventive care prevent long periods of standing or sitting that impair venous return elevate legs when sitting, dorsiflex feet at regular intervals to prevent venous pooling if edema occurs, elevate above heart level regular exercise program to promote circulation avoid crossing legs at the knees avoid wearing constrictive clothing such as tight bands around socks or garters use elastic stocking on affected leg do leg exercises during periods of enforced immobility such as after surgery explain purpose of bed rest and leg elevation use elastic stockings monitor pt. on anticoagulant & fibrinolytic therapy for signs of bleeding monitor for signs of pulmonary embolism - sudden onset of chest pain, dyspnea, rapid breathing, tachycardia
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He agreed that the immobility caused by her illness could have played a part in her decline.
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The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.
Nature
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But there's less evidence that the problem of income immobility is growing.
Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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"The ' two factors' are clearly the immobility and gastrostomy feeding.
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It is, in fact, the immobility and abstraction of the Discharged Soldier that disconcerts the onlooker: no visibility is to be found here in the eye of the seer.
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
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Immobility for any reason contributes to the risk of pressure sore.
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Paralysis agitans (shaking palsy), with its coarse tremor, peculiar facies, immobility, shuffling gait, the ` bread-crumbling 'attitude of the fingers, and deliberate speech, would be readily eliminated even by a novice.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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A life endured in total immobility is, though conceivable, wholly unsatisfactory.
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Abnormalities of blood flow or venous stasis normally occur after prolonged immobility or confinement to bed.
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All these things are based upon the idea that the child should grow in immobility, and upon the strange prejudice that, in order to execute any educational movement, we must maintain a special position of the body; – as we believe that we must assume a special position when we are about to pray.
The Montessori Method
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Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia: ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’
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At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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It is probable that after passing several months or years in a state of immobility fakirs no longer experience any desire to change their position, and even did they so desire, it would be impossible owing to the atrophy of their muscles and the anchylosis of their joints.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
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Her eyes confronted the stone and her whole being froze in immobility.
Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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Medical writers of the era even discussed a fourth clinical condition, marked by immobility, which they termed ecstasy, but this was not a state that might lead to premature burial.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Residents of the former East Germany are making up for the years of enforced immobility by becoming the world's most adventurous travellers.
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His immobility did not deter him from writing a report.
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One of the major consequences of stroke is immobility, as the parts of the brain involved in controlling movement are damaged.
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But, on the other hand, the phenomenon I would call segregation, in its proper meaning of isolation or immobility, is very pervasive.
Distribution of Income in Canada
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A dedicated bus-only lane would cure this pointless immobility.
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Sports therapists and physicians have long been suggesting various forms of rehabilitation for this injury to suit their active needs, but what is the most favorable therapy for vigorous individuals who wouldn't settle for long-term immobility?
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Confined within the window frame, this complex amalgam becomes an image of worldly flux contrasting sharply with the quiet immobility of the recumbent figure.
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They desire a stillness and immobility they can never attain, for the activity of the world never ceases.
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What they are tired of is the immobility and politically correct constraints over economic debate that have left unemployment at 8.5 percent.
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Draining the pus was the only thing that helped, and I got a tetanus shot just because of the immobility.
The Neighbour’s Cat Won — Climb to the Stars
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Someone as active as he would not have been able to cope with a long period of immobility.
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Conversely, because epidurals can provide excellent analgesia, patients will require no systemic sedative analgesia, which is also identified in the editorial as a cause of immobility.
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The flies, despite their immobility, seem to dance playfully like marionettes on a stage.
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Total darkness, total immobility, and a certain ocular adjustment will also be necessary.
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But the shark's sudden movement belied its previous immobility.
