torpor

How To Use torpor In A Sentence

• Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow.
• As to the first point, it is probable that any torpor, or even _lentor_ in the blood, such as scarcely expresses itself sensibly through the pulse, renders that fluid less able to resist the first actions of disease. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
• The consequences you described to a friend: extreme torpor, fatigue, dizzy spells in public places, frayed nerves.
• This would weaken incentives and lead to periods of torpor and stagnation.
• The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
• She was in that blessed closing stage of childhood before the onslaught of adolescence with all its torpor and miseries. AN OLDER WOMAN
• The soloist rhapsodizes in quiet ecstasy, and the orchestra reacts torporously, but with increasing movement.
• The state of torpor she had been living in -- for to stifle remorse she had been drinking heavily on the quiet -- now began to wear off, and her brain to uncloud itself; and A Mummer's Wife
• Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
• Hasn't the Church always regained her strength in times of moral torpor by recalling the heights from which it has fallen?