torpor

While their immune systems keep the fungus at bay when the bat is active, the fungus gains the upper hand once the bats enter their state of torpor.

To call for structural change would require a kind of systemwide cognitive reboot for American voters that seems almost inconceivable in the generalized torpor and despair of July 2024; it would necessitate asking an electorate that has in large part lost all confidence and trust in the high court whether it believes that something might genuinely be done to change it.

“These drugs he was taking, in the period of time when Zuccarini was arranging the secret wedding and having him sign oppressive documents, are known to have significant effects on cognition, including confusion, hallucinations, torpor, depression, memory loss, and dissociation.”

Owen’s torpor — his froggy, monotone way of talking, his incessant, suppressed discomfort — is draining.

What unfolded was the exact opposite of the torpor in Calcutta.