How To Use Torpidity In A Sentence
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If you really do not want a clutch pedal, there is no better transmission than this: none of the surge-pause-jerk of a regular robotised manual such as Alfa Romeo's Selespeed, none of the stodge and torpidity a regular automatic can suffer.
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His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Despite the enthusiastic overtures which the dawn of a new season brings, Clark admits he will quickly lose his appetite if matches descend into torpidity.
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No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either.
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The torpidity of this sick animated humaness is a figuration of the total energic flow of this world-body in which life-and-death are its metabolic (anabolic and katabolic) currents.
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So, too, I said I would treat a negative disease, such as amaurosis or torpidity of liver, with the negative pole, placing the positive pole on either some healthy or morbidly positive part.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
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The naturalist says they are mostly torpid; yet evidently that little pocket-faced depredator, the chipmunk, was not carrying buckwheat for so many days to his hole for nothing; -- was he anticipating a state of torpidity, or the demands of a very active appetite?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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There is no better transmission than this: none of the surge-pause-jerk of a regular robotised manual, none of the stodge and torpidity a regular automatic can suffer.
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Their lives are an endless chain of moments of torpidity, but the pain of these soulless beings is so visibly real it is impossible to be bored.
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The history of the Bank provides ample testimony to its propensity for torpidity.
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An all pervasive sense of intolerable torpidity hangs heavy in the air.
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I know I'm handsome, but that is no reason for you to stand there in torpidity.
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The common Greek tortoise, hawked on barrows about the streets of London and bought by a confiding British public under the mistaken impression that its chief fare consists of slugs and cockroaches (it is really far more likely to feed upon its purchaser's choicest seakale and asparagus), buries itself in the ground at the first approach of winter, and snoozes away five months of the year in a most comfortable and dignified torpidity.
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