torpidly

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Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies.

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Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy.

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They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.

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Black, bewildered, a horseshoe in his pocket, he sprawled torpidly on a bench behind his counsel.

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I could remember staring torpidly through these windows a hundred times out at the elms of the Center Common.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles