torpidity

In the late 1940s, he became the first naturalist to observe “profound torpidity” — a state like hibernation — in birds while studying the poorwill in the Chuckwalla Mountains southeast of Desert Center.

After the torpidity of the Eisenhower years, Kennedy made the office more youthful and glamorous.

Visually, her inky lines and warm colors evoke the heat and torpidity of Greer’s tropical pregnancy in all its beauty and frustration.

So over the weekend I installed the app and let torpidity reign.

“We have gone through a very long period of diplomatic stagnation, torpidity and rigidity.”