| 单词 | inertness |
| 例句 | Despite an interlocking, puzzle-box narrative, there is a curious inertness to the proceedings. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z This new special is for only the super “Wicked” fans because despite several lovely performances, there’s a baffling inertness to this “celebration.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The movie’s inertness certainly isn’t the fault of Naomi Watts, who more than holds our focus. 2 movies open March 25 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The film’s inertness is unexpected, and a tad disappointing, considering that first-time screenwriter Joshua Rollins has unearthed some genuinely fascinating details about Bales’s backstory that were not in either published account of the rescue. Review | ‘Infinite Storm’ movie: Most of the bad weather is in these two characters’ heads 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “But she is ultimately ill-served by both the inertness of the story and Chen’s awkward approach to the material in the final half-hour.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Without Remorse,’ ‘Percy vs. Goliath’ and more 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, it is the inertness of the potato metaphor that is most at odds with the jitteriness of digital life. What Ever Happened to the Couch Potato? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z In the case of plutonium-bearing solids, demonstrating chemical inertness presents a huge challenge. Policy: Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z And thus in this period of psychological blindness or inertness, our art has become dull. Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Bruce Hornsby’s gorgeous acoustic score seems to have been composed for an entirely different movie, and Williams is recessive to the point of utter inertness as a man governed by unquenchable, restless appetites. Spike Lee loses tonal control in the leaden ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z There is a plaguing sense of inertness, of skating in place, while suffering a steady seepage of confidence. U.S. speedskaters wore their old suits; what they needed was security blankets 2014-02-15T22:05:53Z At one moment to all seeming as lifeless as a log, the next he is a raging monster, ready to tear and rend any hapless creature which his inertness has beguiled. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z But then in the case of Clovis, the inertness and hesitancy of his character called for consideration. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z For it was the quiescence, it was the inertness of the gazing crowd which most appalled the spectators at the window. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z His own happy constitution and experience never led him to adopt the cheap optimism with which so many of us cheat our conscience, and justify to ourselves our own selfish inertness. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z He longed to confide, to justify himself before a fellow-citizen of his miserable inertness. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Hungry and weary himself, and sympathising with his men's hunger, he145 saw the danger of this reckless gluttony, which produced a reaction of inertness as dangerous as intoxication. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z Iner′tia, inertness: the inherent property of matter by which it tends to remain for ever at rest when still, and in motion when moving.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z But when I see what my living contemporaries are doing, I am shamed out of absolute inertness and silence. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Lazy inertness causes individuals to accept ideas that have currency about them without personal inquiry and testing. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Once or twice she thought of Looey, but with native inertness she let the thought slip. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z It was the year in which he was preparing for his examination; he felt that he should fail if he did not conquer his inertness and return to his studies. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z The tips of the fingers touch, the Lord’s and Adam’s, and the huge frame loses its inertness and rears itself into action. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Surely inertness, supineness, stupidity, and even torpor may be made to excite emotion in an audience. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Without him I am reduced to silence and inertness; for I repeat to you, that he is the thought of which I am the action. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Randolph was in the plight, most harassing to a hot and impatient mood, when there is nothing immediately to be done, and the spirit chafes and rages at its forced inertness. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Other mine owners in the vicinity had taken these precautions long ago; but Mr. Chattaway, whether from inertness, or regard to expense, had not done so. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z My mother well understood my inertness and worthlessness; she knew too that my pride would not long allow me to be a dependent on those upon whom I only had the claims of kinship. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z They were interrupted by no wars; not because the nation desired or profited by peace, but in consequence of the general inertness, the universal languor, the unqualified anarchy. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Society is terrorized through its inertness, and when society enters on an active warfare you gentlemen cannot make a show of resistance. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z The inertness and pallor of the saggers seemed to be the physical result of their fiery trial, and one wondered that they should have survived the trial. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z It is a fair type of the inertness of the people of that region at the time. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z It was only for a moment, however, and then the former inertness returned, as she repeated, "Pearl!" Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z Base your social order on the inertness of the mass. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z But he survived during twelve years in which his inertness, considered by some to be unexplained, suffered the eastern empire to undergo irreparable losses. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Argon is manufactured in fairly large quantity from air, making use of the inertness of the substance compared to oxygen and nitrogen, the chief constituents of the air. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Each one is bound to bring every talent into use—to leave none in the dark quarry of ignorance, the quagmire of negligence or to rust by inertness. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution In the door stood Asa Gregory, his hands hanging at his sides with a studied inertness as his eyes travelled slowly, appraisingly, about the place. The Tempering As an actual social phenomenon egoism is merely a disclosure of a certain present narrowness and inertness in the nature of the individual which may or may not be definitive for him. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The habit of self-depreciation had, besides, got hold of him, and he employed it as an excuse to cover his inertness. Tony Butler The young men who formerly raced horses, for lack of other things to do, and in order not to die of inertness, now became the hilarious teamsters of each valley. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop The rule of these two princes was destined to be the last period of literary inertness in the long interval following the confinement of Wales to her inaccessible highlands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The ordinary repose of the surface implies, on the contrary, an inertness in the internal mass which is truly wonderful. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Greater breadth than sharpness, or more vitality than action, causes sluggishness, dullness of feeling, and inertness, while too great action for strength, wears out its possessor prematurely. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Something of this unconscious wish roused him to-day from his inertness, and as a keen east wind blew towards him from the mountains, a more powerful energy obtained the mastery within him. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Indignant at his own inertness, he compelled himself to something like repose and interest in his work. Edelweiss A Story But the improvement was not maintained; the pauses gradually grew longer and more frequent, and soon after ten o'clock the ladies succumbed to the general inertness, and disappeared below. The Red Rat's Daughter Inwardly she thrilled with a luxury of inertness. Ewing\\'s Lady Cape Colony, though much is due to it for its support of the Bechuana railway, is not wholly free from the blame of inertness in the past. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Its flesh was good for food, and from its inertness and incapacity for defence, the race was extirpated in a few years. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The sluggardly inertness of that people passes all belief; entreaties, objurgations, curses, even bribes could not move them. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance It is possible to imagine a universe of experiences in which the only alternative between neighbors would be either physical interaction or complete inertness. Essays in Radical Empiricism In the minds of most people it stands for an insect either contemptible from its size and inertness, or positively obnoxious from its attacks on many articles of clothing. Folk-lore of Shakespeare I exclaimed, startled for the moment out of the inertness that paralyzed my brain. The Red Symbol Then the coldness and dumbness and wretched inertness that had bound him, body and soul, were gone. Prisoners of Conscience Most things said to be impossible are so only in the mind of the man whose timidity or inertness keeps him from making the attempt. The Training of a Forester So the Slavonians, who tell only in the mass, and whose influence is ascertainable sometimes by adding to the momentum of active forces, sometimes by impeding through inertness the progress of mankind. The History of Freedom A profound weariness and inertness settled slowly over every sense and limb, and falling back, he fell into a deep sleep. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia Stas overcame with the whole force of his will the inertness of his limbs and advanced farther. In Desert and Wilderness She did not perceive his decline, for he talked bravely of his future, and called her attention to his increasing weight, which was indeed a sign of his growing inertness. Money Magic A Novel But all the while, pain, the darkness, the still inert unconsciousness in existence that oppresses and drags back into its own dead inertness, is laughing still more heartily. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author The Church had less to fear from the violence of the majority than from the inertness of their opponents. The History of Freedom As the days passed, he dwelt in an outward inertness, while his dreams and longings incessantly rehabilitated the home whose desolation he had seen with his own eyes. The Quality of Mercy Hence the activity of the young and healthy as contrasted with the inertness of the exhausted and aged. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion His big form rested in his chair with a ponderous inertness which was a telltale witness to his essential helplessness. Money Magic A Novel All the sounds and activities of the day––the merriment of the little ones, the oblations of the priests, the greetings of friends––were followed by inertness and languor. The Strollers The experiments furnish several examples of inertness, ineffectiveness or failure to produce profit when the fertilizers were applied under any of the conditions named. Manual of American Grape-Growing This removes from the whole terrestrial organism every similitude of inertness and gives it a fundamental refinement, activity, and potency of the highest order. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Oh, Marion!” she cried, suddenly conscious of the inertness of the burden in her arms. Whispering Smith The government of the country, with its accustomed inertness, has not yet established a law for the suppression of this evil; 'and so,' says the tobacconist, 'sorcery flourishes, and the brujas prosper.' The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba In youth, love of action may employ the leisure to the promotion of vice in age, a tendency to inertness may induce the abuse of the leisure to total inaction. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 But he caught his breath sharply as he made out a long, dark shape which lay, with the inertness of death, under his port-hole, blending with the shadows. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Man had settled into the dull inertness of a stagnant pool, and the fierce winds of war were needed to break up his mental slothfulness and stir thought into healthful activity. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution I conclude that an impression of existing inertness or ignorance is not a sufficient reason for withholding responsible government or restricting the area of the suffrage. Liberalism Ideas, once broached, are usually, if they contemplate action, opposed, at least by inertness; but after a time they reappear as if native to the minds which would have none of them by reasonable approaches. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study No! penury, inertness, and grimace, In some strange sort, were the land's portion. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Mere bluntness and inertness of intellect, which the name would suggest, he never confines himself to. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 A grievance, however, which pressed upon a single class was maintained from the necessity of the case and the inertness of the administrative system. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. The notion of her heading into the vastness and the gloom was appalling; the inertness of that increasing group, formed now of both men and women collected from all the camp, maddened. Desert Dust And 'tis a decent instinct of gratitude, not mere inertness, which causes us to keep them, honoured pensioners of our affections, in honourable places. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life In others, it is simply the inertness, "coldness" of the peat, which is not positively injurious, but is, for a time at least, of no benefit to the soil. c. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel She laughed hysterically when she saw him sink to the floor and stretch out with a queer inertness. 'Drag' Harlan Especially unfortunate, and finally disastrous to the American arms, was the inaptness and inertness of the Secretary of War, General Armstrong, in failing to adopt, promptly and adequately, measures to meet the emergency. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 All his will power was used in the effort to control his breathing, and reduce his body to absolute inertness. The Secret Witness The thwarting of our cherished plans is beneficial, because our plans are often mere routine, born not of wisdom, but of inertness. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life His education was deficient; it had not been carried on steadily, and he had been allowed to indulge a constitutional inertness. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration He was of that type so often seen in the South, tall, gangly, and very dark, with a sallow complexion and a general air of inertness that always misleads the stranger to the type. Stubble And as a matter of statistical fact, all tragedies, crimes, vices, scandal, gossip and misery are direct products of mental inertness or idleness. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies But, on the theory of special creation, it is impossible to understand why there should be any such correlation between the prevalence of gales and a comparative inertness of creative activity. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions It requires a strong will, or a great amount of inertness, to be able to withstand the impetus of such national, or rather ethnical, movements. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion To come to a decision has always been too much for my Creole inertness, and I find it easier to obey the wishes of others. Hortense Makers of History Series The necessary attributes of matter, according to our conception of it, are extension, figure, impenetrability, and inertness; the properties of mind are thought, sensation, activity, and will. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Less fitted, both by nature and training, for passive endurance, they could not understand his inertness. The Path to Honour It is a symptom of inertness when Stella is sung as though it were the only 6-8’s tune. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet The peddler lay at full length, a bundle of strange travel-wrecked clothes, suggesting a lay figure in his limp inertness and the loose sprawl of his limbs. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Hence the Spaniards are remarkable for an inertness, a want of buoyancy, and an absence of hope, which, in our busy and enterprising age, isolate them from the rest of the civilized world. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Her inertness vanished; the sudden anger and wonderment in her eyes met the passion in his. Under the Rose It is absurd to see the blank astonishment, or dull sleepy inertness with which some tourists look upon the castles and other great show-places of our country. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands This may be easily accounted for by the feeling that modern as well as ancient authors have, viz., that of laziness and inertness; revising the first 100 pages carefully, but decreasing from that point. Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The body, its inertness, the still sprawl of the limbs, were puppet-like, with none of death's pomp and menace. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories All other forces have phenomena of repulsion and of inertness irrespective of distance, as well as of attraction. The Book of the Damned O soft ones! surely will ye soon create some greater evil by this inertness: but do each of you in his mind ponder on the shame and reproach; for certainly a mighty contest hath arisen. The Iliad of Homer (1873) One saw how inertness passes into the climax of activity and how that climax is perilously near its antithetic decline. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches There will always be conservatism enough in Congress, and inertness enough in the Democratic party, to hold in check even as brilliant a man as James G. Blaine. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The plan was decided upon in a few hours; and the disorder that prevailed throughout the country, the inertness of the authorities and the want of harmony among the soldiery, all favored its execution. Which? or, Between Two Women If your new life is worth anything, it will flame to sharper power when it strikes against this dogged inertness of things: for you need resistances on which to act. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People It would be a type whose recurrent "evil" would take the form of a sneering and malignant inertness, the form of a cold and sarcastic disparagement of all intense feeling. The Complex Vision The Master seems to chide the inertness of his servants when he says, “the fields are white already to harvest.” The Parables of Our Lord Its moral inertness, its lack of spiritual enthusiasm, gave it less and less hold on the religious minds of the day. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 It is true there is a darker side—much bigotry, pride of race, scorn of other creeds, and, speaking generally, a tendency to inertness. The Faith of Islam Activity is good for the child, and rest, which, is the complement of activity, is good for the child; but the combination of inertness with strain is good for neither his body nor his mind. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular But for Bergson this creative impulse is not confronted by evil or by malice as its opposite, but simply by the natural inertness of mechanical "matter." The Complex Vision The unaccountable inertness of the Eastern army of the Union, under McClellan, gave them time to strengthen their defences, and reinforce their army, which had dwindled to a very low ebb during the winter. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure As in atonement for past sloth and inertness, the reformists became more active in their several departments than ever before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems It is a declaration of war, and was needed to arouse apathy and inertness to action. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry There is no forced inertness in Utopia, no slackness, no boredom, no yawning. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular It is a melancholy which descends upon us when in any disintegrated moment the creative energy in us, the energy of love in us, is overcome by the evil and inertness of the aboriginal malice. The Complex Vision If haste is harmful, inertness and indolence are a thousand times worse. The Secret of Divine Civilization Jude, lazy with the inertness of a too sharply defined ancestry, became rapidly a well-developed parasite. Joyce of the North Woods It is light, sprung from void darkness; power, waked from inertness and impotence; being created from nothing; and the contrast may well enkindle wonder and delight. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry My doctor called the next day; he said the headache from which I was suffering arose from inertness in the liver. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle For malignant inertness is the true adversary of creation. The Complex Vision But successive vibrations gradually remove this inertness, and recovery is then hastened. Response in the Living and Non-Living From the old into the new, from the tried to the untried, from inertness to action, from the Greek marbles to Saxon men and women, from Rome to Britain, from breathing to living. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 And the reaction and fatigue together stunned him into inertness. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Michael's body, which had so far profited by the inertness of his faculties, resented the change, and gave unmistakable signs of relinquishing the slight degree of strength it had regained. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Bergson's monism, as we have seen, resolves itself into a duality which may be defined as conscious activity confronted by unconscious inertness. The Complex Vision It now exhibits itself merely as a relative inertness, and the responses, though positive, are feeble. Response in the Living and Non-Living She it was, doubtless, who then struck Kutusoff with the palsy of inertness. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 “Father, wake up!” she called out in her little, trembling, sweet voice, and that reached Andrew Brewster in the depths of his own physical inertness. The Portion of Labor But after a few days he became uneasy at his brother's inertness of mind and body. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Thus it remains perfectly true that what we sometimes call "brute matter" possesses an element of malignant inertness and malicious resistance to the power of creation. The Complex Vision He took hold of him to draw him under the forecastle head, where he would have shelter, and was alarmed at the inertness of the body under his hands. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories But the sentence is intended as a protest against our continued inertness in failing to establish any suitable naval bases whatever, especially in the Caribbean. The Navy as a Fighting Machine And your solid log has a certain irritating inertness. Certain Personal Matters "The stupid inertness of the puzzled negro," says B.-P., "is duller than that of an ox; a dog would grasp your meaning in one-half the time." The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' According to the revelation of the complex vision, evil or malice is a positive force, of malignant inertness, resisting the power of creation or of love. The Complex Vision Let us put off the robes of sloth and inertness, and put on the dress of zeal and earnestness. The Women of the Arabs Through countries enamelled of nature's best offerings, as fine as ever spread out before the eye of man, we travelled; but all seemed wasting away in the inertness of bad government. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth The north was safe whatever happened, and, as the inertness of midnight passed off, he felt satisfaction in any prospect, however hazardous. The Half-Hearted Perhaps the Church activity which, at all events in many notable instances, distinguished the first few years of the eighteenth century, is thrown into stronger relief by the comparative inertness which set in soon afterwards. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century We cannot but contrast the inertness of Northumbria and the lukewarmness of Mercia with the stubborn resistance finally made by Ælfred in Wessex. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain For they are, as was said, the endings and closings of the atmospheres, whose heat has died away into cold, whose light into darkness, and whose activity into inertness. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom This appeal was not disregarded: in due time official apathy and inertness fled before the national cry for reform. Elizabeth Fry No! penury, inertness, and grimace, In some strange sort, were the land's portion. Browning's Shorter Poems He sat with the contented inertness of old men on his well-worn bench, waiting to see what would be the result of the interview."I don't believe she'll have him," he thought. The Bread-winners A Social Study Cursing himself for his inertness, Jack soon shook off this drowsiness, and set to work in earnest. Jack Sheppard A Romance The nation is sent back into passiveness, inertness, nothingness, and the legislator takes possession of omnipotence. Essays on Political Economy For a breathless stretch of time she was frozen to inertness by sheer terror. The Seeker It is not humanity, but laziness and inertness of mind, which produces the desire of this kind of indemnities. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) All Lionel's inertness was gone at the sound of the name. Verner's Pride It would seem as though the constitutional stability which formed the secret of the strength of Venice was also the source of comparative intellectual inertness. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Their duty, then, was evident: to fling all the forces of their lives, and by all social and political means, right against this inertness, and shatter it if they could. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. The inertness you complain of in the ministry starts early. Around The Tea-Table Impostor! thou knowest well that the angels, disgusted at thine inertness, abandon thee! Là-bas And even when he knew that there was nothing behind it, that it was indeed little more than an imaginative inertness, he could still admire and respect her steady dignity and her consistent honourableness. Mr. Britling Sees It Through On the contrary, such inertness as the sheer exercise of will could compass was added to his dead weight. The Frontiersmen It was organized as a remonstrance against what many men in the old Liberal party regarded as the inertness of their leaders to carry out changes considered necessary in the political interests of the country. Lord Elgin The little chances, the unguessed-at accidents, the undeserved blows of a capricious destiny, which batter so many of us into helpless inertness, are the aspects of life which interest him most. One Hundred Best Books Out of which comes the Moravian expedition; by inertness of allies turned into a mere Moravian foray, "the French acting like fools, and the Saxons like traitors," growls Frederick. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Swift and decisive action was pitted against inertness. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Cooper resented his authority over himself and Stand Watie interpreted his waiting policy as due to inertness and ineptitude. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War Of this inertness of disposition Johnson had all his life too great a share. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Then he reproached the duke with his inertness against the English, with the capture of Pontoise, and with his alliances amongst the promoters of civil war. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 The inertness and shortsightedness of the frontiersmen, above all the exhaustion of the States, and their timid selfishness and inability to enforce their commands, baffled all of Clark's efforts. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 It was made for them by their exceptional and outcast men, and in the end it will be lost, I fear, by the intellectual inertness of their commonplace and dull-minded leaders. An Englishman Looks at the World The love of life, and still more a hatred against oppression, steeled my heart against that species of inertness. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are The character of society depends on the strength of the nobler incentives, that is, the social inclinations and intellectual vivacity in opposition to the egoistic impulses and natural inertness. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time He was in a manner devoted to it with a sort of inert fanaticism, or perhaps rather with a fanatical inertness. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale In a vague way, she realized her own inertness, and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again arouse to the full horror of her plight. Within the Law Outside her window helpless immobility seemed to be combined with intense consciousness; a meditative inertness possessed all things, oppressively contrasting with her own active emotions. The Woodlanders "This that I mixed with truth, motions of mine That quickened, made the inertness malleolable O' the gold was not mine,"— I. The Ring and the Book, v. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry There was a tremor through the man's form—then inertness. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale In this celestial ocean were the germs of all the living things which afterwards took form in heaven and on earth, but they existed in a state of inertness and helplessness. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations Yet simultaneously he derided himself for the inertness of his imagination. Casanova's Homecoming That empire had been forced upon her by the inertness of Sparta, and by the cowardice and sloth of her own allies in the Delian league. Stories from Thucydides Of this dismal inertness of disposition, Johnson had all his life too great a share. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 The monads completely fill the world; there is never and nowhere a void, and never complete inanimateness and inertness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Out of this ocean Khepera raised himself, and so passed from a state of passiveness and inertness into one of activity. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable, to counterbalance the inertness and fossilism making so large a part of human institutions. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy In some regions of the East, the sultry and oppressive heat, the general relaxation of the physical system, dispose constitutions of a certain temperament to a dreamy inertness. The Hermits But the apathy and inertness are, I fear, too profound—too providential. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge And it was drawn out by His disciples' denseness and inertness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark But besides this sort of general favour, he enjoyed a very pleasing little personal popularity which came from his interest in other people, from his good-nature, and from his inertness. Indian Summer In a brave man this terror may happen to be strong; in a pusillanimous man, simply through inertness and original feebleness of imagination, may happen to be scarcely developed. Autobiographical Sketches The drama of "Laura Secord" was written in 1876, and the ballad a year later, but, owing to the inertness of Canadian interest in Canadian literature at that date, could not be published. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. He judged him mature enough in principles, strong enough in sense; and feared lest, by being kept too long under guidance and the easy life of home, he should fall into inertness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Both to-day and in the Cabinet on Friday last I was surprised by Lord Melville's inertness. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II A great hero may fall, a great nation may be enslaved; but the cause of human freedom will in time triumph over all despots, over all national inertness, and all national mistakes. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders That awful inertness looked so terribly like death. The Bars of Iron Those white wrists held in steel, that pale face and blanched lips, the inertness of her movements, all told their own tragic tale. The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love Apparently he was satisfied from their inertness that the drug had worked, for he muttered to himself rapidly in the unknown tongue as he concluded his examination. The Boy Aviators in Africa The inertness of the young Sultan was not from want of will or zeal. The Prince of India — Volume 02 He wanted to push the walls out, tear the rugs into rags, and scatter them contemptuously before the scandalized inertness of Eastlake. Cytherea The sermons of Mrs. Booth already re-published under the title of "Aggressive Christianity," came to American Christians as a tonic to their weakness, and a stimulant to their inertness. Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 But the inertness of party organization and party tradition held back the inevitable process of cleavage. From October to Brest-Litovsk Into this atmosphere of tamed inertness, suddenly flashed a little figure whose quivering vitality communicated electric thrills. Fran This was quietly effected through the cooperation of the family physician, who successfully drugged poor "Doc" into pacific inertness. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Thus we shall speak of matter as showing the attribute of 'inertness', when it is subject to mechanical causation, of 'alertness', when it is subject to magical causation. Man or Matter Now, there is no doubt at all that there is inertness somewhere. The Recreations of a Country Parson Dull inertness now hangs its lifeless festoons over the whole, from the vaulted hall to the iron railing enclosing the whole. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter The battle of the world is that of force against inertness: and our fears are the shadow of that combat. Where No Fear Was And, on the other hand, it would be very unwholesome to be left to my own inertness—to be as good for nothing as I feel.' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 We were able at once to tackle the question of inertness by bringing to our immediate observation matter in the state of diminished inertness, or, as we proposed to say, of alertness. Man or Matter But the author of this book declares that this inertness, though in the phenomenon, is not in the fact. The Recreations of a Country Parson He had a strong sense of responsibility, with a temperament made up of tenderness, refinement, and inertness, such as shrank from the career set before him. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 But this troubled inertness was the soil of his inspiration; his conceptions took slow and stately shape. Where No Fear Was As the volts of an electric shock quivering through a body are suddenly withdrawn, and the rigidity becomes a ghastly inertness, so Jasmine's hands, and all her body, seemed released. The Judgment House By reason of its inertness N is very easily set free from its compounds. An Introduction to Chemical Science We must look for the source of nature's apparent or felt inertness in man's condition. The Recreations of a Country Parson We shall see later the magnificent problem raised by this inertness. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography "Oh, it's only his church," I said, proceeding to give her an account of Robbie Muir's silent, solid inertness, and how he had blocked The Pilot's scheme. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills The honey may prevent the cement from adjusting itself to the orifice, in which case the insect's inertness would merely be resignation to an irreparable evil. The Mason-Bees I may, however, call your attention, briefly, to the singular fact, that English and American practitioners are apt to accuse French medical practice of inertness, and French surgical practice of unnecessary activity. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Now comes the very essence of the new theory; I give it in its author's words:— The inertness is introduced by man. The Recreations of a Country Parson Through inertness, fear, or disgust, the great majority of electors had not voted, while the voters at the polls fought among themselves, the strongest or least scrupulous expelling or constraining the rest. The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Perhaps it sprang from the inertness that pervaded me, perhaps some mysterious hand detained me. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... After the time for conscription had long since passed, an inertness of will had made him consider a return to his country as somewhat absurd and useless. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Here, as elsewhere, we have evidence of that inertness, apathy, and want of spontaneous vigour which form one of the most characteristic traits of Russian national life. Russia To say that man introduces inertness into nature implies a deadness in him: it is to say that he wants life. The Recreations of a Country Parson And yet, what seems more pertinent to note here, there is a stillness, not of unobstructed growth, but of passive inertness, and symptom of imminent downfall. The French Revolution Some even make a pretence of justifying their inertness. God the Invisible King Here are the two things, Man and Nature; with which thing does the inertness lie? The Recreations of a Country Parson This kind of being has shaken off the reproach of inertness. The Recreations of a Country Parson We cannot argue from inertness in that which appears to us, to inertness in that which is. The Recreations of a Country Parson If harmless inertness could save him, it were well; but he will slumber and painfully dream, and to do aught is not given him. The French Revolution Matter is the vain imagination of man through his wrong idea of Nature's inertness. The Recreations of a Country Parson How does the notion of inertness come at all, then? The Recreations of a Country Parson We have no ground, therefore, in the inertness which we feel, for affirming of nature that it is inert. The Recreations of a Country Parson This kind of action is quite consistent with the general notion of inertness. The Recreations of a Country Parson Since we have no reason, from the inertness of the phenomenal, for inferring the inertness of the essential, can we know whether that essential be inert or not? The Recreations of a Country Parson Hear the author:— To this clear issue the case is brought: Man does introduce into nature something from himself: either the inertness, the negative qualily, the defect, or the beauty, the meaning, the glory. The Recreations of a Country Parson As there is inertness somewhere, and as it is not in nature, of course the conclusion is that it is in man. The Recreations of a Country Parson I do not grant that by taking from matter the reproach of inertness, you would make it spirit. The Recreations of a Country Parson As astronomy has transferred the apparent movements of the planets from them to ourselves, so, says our author, has science transferred the seeming inertness of Nature from it to us. The Recreations of a Country Parson Thirdly: Why cannot 'inertness, as being absolute inaction, belong to that which truly is?' The Recreations of a Country Parson |
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