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Inert in sentence

76 examples of Inert in a sentence

It's inert, without direction and a true chore to finish.
"Batalla en el cielo" is one of those inert, enervating art movies that comes along from time to time and has highbrow critics reaching for the superlatives.
In a lazy case like this, certainly the costumes and local color should suffice--but with such an inert storyline, attention is more focused upon the performances given by Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Rita Hayworth, which are uneven at best.
Special effects oddly hold up because they are fairly inert, but the stories are either boring or indirectly have something to do with Mormonism.
However, these clinical trauma theorists do not argue that “repressed” or “dissociated” memories of horrific events are either inert or benign.
The End of Liberal InterventionismNEW DELHI – As the sand-storm season in Libya gathers power and pace, the bright early colors of the Arab spring are fading alongside the hopes and promise of change for peoples too long suppressed by despotic and inert governments.
While ASEAN rejected previous calls to impose sanctions, or even to expel Myanmar, this step shows that it will not remain inert regardless of what the generals do.
Abdullah’s octogenarian line of successors recalls the final years of the Soviet Union, when one infirm leader after another succeeded to power for a brief period of inert rule.
Russia’s not-so-ex-communists never assumed power again, because reformers were succeeded by Viktor Chernomyrdin’s inert government.
The Conservative Party is deeply split; the Labour Party is inert under a nostalgic leftist leadership; and the Liberal Democrats have more or less left the scene.
That the traditional left is so inert in the midst of today’s economic crisis is more than strange.
It is when money is spent that it becomes more than an inert bundle of useless paper.
One example is the belated recognition that seemingly inert and benign halogenated hydrocarbons were interfering with the ozone layer.
Yet many other philosophers have rejected the autocracy of reason in humans’ moral lives, agreeing with David Hume’s assertion that “reason, in itself, is perfectly inert.”
At the nanometer scale (about 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), matter behaves in unusual ways: weak materials become strong, inert materials become active, and benign materials become harmful.
How can an inert sugar pill have therapeutic value?
Although placebos are biologically inert, as many as 26% of placebo-treated patients drop out of clinical trials after suffering intolerable side effects, which are usually the same as the possible side effects of the drug being tested.
First, because of their large numbers and their associated (and often expensive and extensive) infrastructures, prime movers are remarkably inert.
The citizens of the partner countries must become the real beneficiaries if this partnership is to become more than the inert agreement that it has been.
We have yet to build a living organism entirely from bottles of chemicals, so anyone who believes in a “life force” that only a divine being could imbue into inert matter will no doubt continue to believe in it.
One-party systems, one-man charismatic dictatorships, or a mixture of the two, as in Tito’s Yugoslavia, are a guarantee of sclerotic minds and inert governments.
This is, of course, at odds with one of the fundamental principles of physics: the second law of thermodynamics, which holds that entropy - the degradation of all matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity - increases as a result of each and every process.
The fury of impotence threw him on to the bed, which he struck with his fists, belabouring the places where he saw the imprint of their two bodies, enraged with the disordered coverlets and the crumpled sheets, soft and inert beneath his blows, as though exhausted themselves by the embraces of the whole night.
The twilight was already darkening the room; it was five o'clock when a disturbance made M. Hennebeau jump, as he sat dazed and inert with his elbows in his papers.
They showed each other the bleeding fragment as an evil beast from which each of them had suffered, and which they had at last crushed, and saw before them there, inert, in their power.
I was no longer an inert mass, and I had, comparatively speaking, great freedom of movement.
While I was contemplating this inert mass, suddenly a dozen of these voracious melanoptera appeared around our longboat; but, paying no attention to us, they pounced on the corpse and quarreled over every scrap of it.
At once inert and flexible, she has against her the weakness of the flesh and legal dependence.
She was left broken, breathless, inert, sobbing in a low voice, with flowing tears.
For hours she remained tranquil and inert, absorbed in her despair; then she was at times seized with attacks of weeping, shrieking and delirium.
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