How To Use Torpor In A Sentence
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Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow.
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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
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The consequences you described to a friend: extreme torpor, fatigue, dizzy spells in public places, frayed nerves.
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This would weaken incentives and lead to periods of torpor and stagnation.
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The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
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She was in that blessed closing stage of childhood before the onslaught of adolescence with all its torpor and miseries.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The soloist rhapsodizes in quiet ecstasy, and the orchestra reacts torporously, but with increasing movement.
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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
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Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
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Hasn't the Church always regained her strength in times of moral torpor by recalling the heights from which it has fallen?
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During the spell of inertia that weaves around the village and the scorching heat which regularly topped 100 degrees we fell into a state of not unpleasant torpor.
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The chorus has that air of resigned lethargy and torpor which regularly lowers over those with little or no hope.
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This torpor of the stomach is attended with indigestion, and consequent flatulency, and with pain, which is usually called the cramp of the stomach, and is relievable by aromatics, essential oils, alcohol, or opium.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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It can enter a state called torpor in which the body temperature, normally more than 105 degrees Fahrenheit, falls to below 70.
Birdology
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However, he markedly improves in his soft-spoken soliloquies, as he brings a genuine depth of feeling in conveying his domestic torpor.
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he fell into a deep torpor
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He had fallen at the hands of sloth and torpor; of avarice and complacency.
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One is the continued success of the Bric economies in helping to pull the West out of its economic torpor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conventional view now is of an uneducated, largely illiterate proletariat sitting in moronic torpor until the beginnings of state education.
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The lizard refused everything and was slipping into torpor.
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The exquisite passages of intelligence that typified this writer's early pensive novels are present, but are lost in the torpor of his protagonist's vacant gaze, best summarised in the novel's last, and snappiest, paragraph: "Nirmalya sighed as he refolded the aerogramme.
Undefined
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When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
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I have thus described and illustrated my intellectual torpor in terms that apply more or less to every part of the four years during which I was under the Circean spells of opium.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor.
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Mimi, war, astonishment torpor, slavery, will daily wipe out those holy principles of thine.
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The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
The Last Man
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Dr. Hakewill, in his Apology, tells you Harriot was the first that squared the area of a spherical triangle; and I can tell you, by the perusal of some papers of Torporley's it appears that Harriot could make the sign of any arch at demand, and the converse, and apply a table of sines to solve all equations, and treated largely of figurate arithmetic.
Thomas Hariot
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A lot of that went to Robin Wagner's sets, which manage to be both amusing and beautiful, from his cubistic jumble of Broadway signs to a Deadrock that slowly assembles itself in all its torpor.
Crazy For 'Crazy For You'
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One Torporley, long since, left a manuscript treatise in Latin in Sion College, wherein is a much more copious table of figurate numbers, which I have caused to be transcribed, with what he says de combinationibus, to send to Mr. Strode.
Thomas Hariot
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That should keep people busy denouncing my moral torpor today!
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But Japanese governments have a history of making big promises while presiding over economic torpor.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had slumped into a state of torpor from which nothing could rouse him.
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The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney.
The Silicon Mage
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Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with
Redgauntlet
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This torpor of the general system remains, till the accumulation of the sensorial power of association has increased the associability so much as to overbalance the defect of the excitement of association; then the torpor ceases, and if the first affected part has recovered its activity the other parts are all thrown into excess of action by their increased associability, and the hot fit of fever is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Montrealers are ruminating on the uncharacteristic torpor that has struck since Christmas.
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The root and leaves, before the flowers are produced, are acrid and astringent, and are serviceable in passive hemorrhages, diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, and gonorrhoea, and are highly recommended as a deobstruent in obstructions of the spleen, and in diseases arising from torpor of the liver,
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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However, he markedly improves in his soft-spoken soliloquies, as he brings a genuine depth of feeling in conveying his domestic torpor.
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But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.
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Rather than titillate or horrify, MTV's Skins elicits a certain acedia -- a lingering spiritual listlessness or torpor that the ancients counted among the Seven Deadly Sins.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children
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Montgomery's is a confident production that doesn't need to sensationalise to express the moral torpor and emotional immaturity of the characters.
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This may be a sign of American democracy's torpor; or of our preoccupied sleepwalk with cults of brand-name products.
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Hibernation: Each winter bears enter a sluggish state called torpor, which is not true hibernation.
Press of Atlantic City: Editorials
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has broken the spell under which we lay in torpor for ages, taking it to be the normal condition of certain races living in certain geographical limits.
Tagore and His India
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And a credible challenge is what the Democratic incumbent needs to rouse him from his torpor.
Times, Sunday Times
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It remains to be seen whether the American populace will wake from their torpor, put down the remote, and do something.
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The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney.
The Silicon Mage
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These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt.
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Behind the picture-book porticos, manicured lawns and mile-wide smiles lie anxiety, self-loathing and torpor.
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And without me the school might sink into torpor. Passive acceptance would be the order of the day.
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The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
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She is living with them in conditions of domestic comfort but emotional torpor in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth.
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But we do not accept this fate with the torpor of other city dwellers.
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After a soaring early winter, they lost altitude and backslid into Same Old Knicks-type torpor.
Buzz Not All There for Knicks-Heat II
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Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
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Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
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That might sound worthy to the point of torpor, but this study of desperation and acute poverty is as tightly wound as a thriller.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as a greater torpor follows this exhaustion of sensorial power, as explained in the next paragraph, and a greater exertion succeeds this torpor, the constitution frequently sinks under these increasing librations between exertion and quiescence; till at length complete quiescence, that is, death, closes the scene.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The lash cracked in the air, the sharp sound waking all the slaves from their torpor.
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Practitioners of ‘silent illumination’ came in for criticism on the account that their practice led to mere laziness and torpor.
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In inflammatory fevers with great arterial action, as the stomach is not always affected with torpor, and as there is a direct sympathy between the stomach and heart, some people have believed, that nauseating doses of some emetic drug, as of antimonium tartarizatum, have been administered with advantage, abating by direct sympathy the actions of the heart.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The Young Patriot Essay Contest will be discontinued due to the indolence and torpor of the modern youth.
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In this scenario the single currency recovers strength as overseas investors see hints of growth after years of eurozone torpor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chorus has that air of resigned lethargy and torpor which regularly lowers over those with little or no hope.
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Certain physical disabilities had now been added to the malaise which had befallen him years before, a malaise of which I had no precise knowledge, but interpreted as something like accidia, the monk's torpor or disease of the Middle Ages – which was how his great security, his excessive worldly blessings, had taken him.
V. S. Naipaul – Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival
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For the circle around the insertion is seen to increase, and to inflame; and I believe, undergoes a kind of diurnal paroxysm of torpor and paleness with a succeeding increase of action and colour, like a topical fever-fit.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
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Elizabeth alone had the power to draw me from these fits; her gentle voice would soothe me when transported by passion, and inspire me with human feelings when sunk in torpor.
Chapter 22
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This may also be due to the apathy, bordering on torpor, concerning most elements of conventional politics and theories of power.
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In this subdued metabolic state, called torpor, hibernators ratchet down their inner thermostats, precipitously lower their heart and respiratory rates, and tune out nearly all external stimuli.
Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter
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Indeed, if they find themselves restrained by a new gripping torpor, they will soon weary of being part of the EU family.
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The scent of roasting coffee beans jolted me out of my postflight torpor.
The 310: Boy Trouble
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But this is a guy who was lifted out of his generic teenage torpor only by endlessly listening to records, and who really believes music is the only reason for existing.
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Torpor in the tody, and its association with season and sex, illustrates the unusual character of this tiny bird's thermoregulatory physiology.
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Unlike torpor, diapause is a long - term state of suspension.