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torpor
1. K perhaps half a notch above torpor wil
2. and white injury, deep down in the torpor
3. hold definite opinions amid the general torpor that they felt in
4. The media had thankfully sunk into a state of torpor, when the news came of a noisy group of belligerent teenagers having a sit-in inside the local Television Station
5. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life
6. Shouts of warning leaped from campsite to campsite as night guards, aroused from their torpor, conveyed the alarm engendered by the sounds of battle
7. torpor, sleep in tree nests made from leaves; the nests are
8. built-up in the tail for the period of torpor, as Lemurs do not
9. Our higher self is a state of unfettered limitlessness, just as our lower self is a state of crabbed dissatisfaction and torpor, symbolized by the prison of the body
10. ” The remark caused Ronald to rouse from his miserable torpor
11. mostly in a state of torpor when that is done to prevent any stress to them
12. To care enough to try to end the torpor
13. 'Do you suppose that if she hadn't had those four children and heaven knows how many besides she wouldn't be different from what she is now?' asked Charlotte, leaning her elbows on the table and fixing me with eyes whose brightness dazzled me, 'As different as day is from night? As health from disease? As briskness from torpor? She'd have looked and felt ten years younger
14. While she was with him he overpowered her into a torpor, into a shutting of her eyes and her thoughts, into just giving herself up, after the shocks and agonies of the week, to the blessedness of a soothed and caressed semi-consciousness; and it was only when his first letters began to come, such simple, adoring letters, taking the situation just as it was, just as life and death between them had offered it, untroubled by questioning, undimmed by doubt, with no looking backward but with a touching, thankful acceptance of the present, that she gradually settled down into that placidity which was at once the relief and the astonishment of her aunt
15. There was normally a feeling of torpor about Wednesday afternoons
16. helped to awaken Spainfrom its torpor
17. They emerged from their torpor an hour later
18. With the resigned torpor of a condemned man, he turned slowly and stepped into the road
19. Just shy of midnight she was shaken from her torpor by, of all things, a meteor shower
20. They believed indeed more or less vividly in a survival of souls in Sheol or Hades, as we shall attempt to show in a future chapter; but that state was thought of as one of comparative torpor and incapacity
21. We acknowledge that the associations of holy blessedness and sinful misery occasionally, as in the cited passage, come forward into vivid prominence in the use of the terms life and death; and not only that, but also that other secondary associations of these terms and their correlatives, such as the ideas of force and liveliness, of weakness and torpor, of a spiritual and of a carnal condition, occasionally are made prominent in the use of the words, as perhaps in such passages as these: 'Quicken you me in thy way’—Psalm cxix
22. But soon recalling herself to the necessities of the situation, with an effort she shook off the torpor of her memories, and began stammering a few hurried words
23. How long I was sunk in this torpor I cannot estimate; but when I awoke, it seemed as if the sun were settling toward the horizon
24. I was wondering what could have caused this urgent need for sleep, when I felt a dense torpor saturate my brain
25. "For Peppino!" cried Andrea, who seemed roused from the torpor in which he had been plunged
26. FLORRY: (Sinking into torpor, crossing herself secretly) The end of the world!
27. Morrel, overpowered, turned around in the arm-chair; a delicious torpor permeated every vein
28. Back on Hawaii, he sank into a cold torpor
29. —You have to, he said adamantly, and he shook me from my torpor, helped me to dress, and drove me to the church
30. “What is it, Ana, honey?” Mom asks, startled from her torpor
31. When there she threw herself on the bed with her clothes on, and lay in apparent torpor, as she had done once before on a memorable day of grief
32. On certain days she chatted with feverish rapidity, and this over-excitement was suddenly followed by a state of torpor, in which she remained without speaking, without moving
33. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes
34. The feeling was not like an electric shock, but it was quite as sharp, as strange, as startling: it acted on my senses as if their utmost activity hitherto had been but torpor, from which they were now summoned and forced to wake
35. Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair
36. They were almost in a state of torpor
37. Furthermore, autocratic governments directly forbid the printing and circulation of books and the delivery of speeches that might enlighten men; and those teachers who have the power to rouse the people from its torpor are either banished or imprisoned
38. Governments are aware of their weakness and helplessness, and men of the Christian faith are awakening from their torpor, beginning already to realize their power
39. How men reconcile the legitimacy of murder with the precepts of morality, and how they admit the existence in their midst of a military organization for purposes of violence which incessantly threatens the safety of society—Admitted only by the powers for whom the present organization is advantageous—Violence sanctioned by the higher authorities and carried out by the lower, notwithstanding the knowledge of its immorality, because, owing to the organization of the State, the moral responsibility is divided among a large number of participants, each of whom considers some other than himself responsible—Moreover, the loss of consciousness of moral responsibility is also due to a mistaken opinion as to the inequality of men, the consequent abuse of power by the authorities, and servility of the lower classes—The condition of men who commit acts contrary to their conscience is like the condition of a hypnotized person acting under the influence of suggestion—In what does submission to the suggestion of the State differ from submission to men of a higher order of consciousness or to public opinion?—The present system, which is the outcome of ancient public opinion, and which is already in contradiction to the modern, is maintained only through torpor of conscience, induced by auto-suggestion among the upper classes, and by the hypnotization of the lower—The conscience or intelligent consciousness of these men may awaken, and there are instances when it does awaken; therefore it cannot be said that any one of them will, or will not, do what he sets out to do—Everything depends on the degree of comprehension of the illegitimacy of the acts of violence, and this consciousness in men may either awaken spontaneously or be roused by those already awakened
40. In a little while he sank into a deep reverie, or rather into a sort of mental torpor
41. Raskolnikoff, who until then had been riveted to the landing with fright, was at length able to shake off his torpor, and hastily reentered the apartment, closing the door behind him
42. Once more at home, he shut out everyone and flung himself on his bed, in a state of stupor that weighed him down till night—a sort of dull torpor of brain, with utter exhaustion of physical strength—a misery of formless thought
