But that never happened: there was no continuity in reflection, we pushed ahead inertly, without necessary meditation and without ever trying to really improve the situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Small children sat inertly in rows, some on benches and others on the floor, and I was struck by the lack of noise in a space where there were more than 70 children. ❋ Jennifer Morgan (2011)
Lauren digs and explores, I kiss back inertly, rubbing his crotch for fun, trying to align our lips in a secure airlock for the least amount of smear. ❋ Brett Rosenblatt (2011)
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. ❋ Eric Liu (2010)
Sometimes, the government stood by inertly as people withered—for example, in Kenya, where drought was threatening to wipe out hundreds of thousands of nomadic herders. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)
As the crimes and criminality are in an increasing upswing, this leadership is just looking on inertly and listlessly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Anyone looking into his cell while he was so engaged would have seen only a discarded Algerian in prison clothes, slumped inertly on a filthy mattress, staring dully at a wall. ❋ Langewiesche, William (2008)
Their books were reissued but now sit inertly on bookstore shelves, incapable of inspiring younger readers, or even nostalgic baby boomers, to purchase them. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But obviously, I could accomplish that feat of blogging in less than an hour a day -- in a lot less time than other people are spending just watching TV inertly. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
But this world has still to discover its will, it is a world that slumbers inertly, and all this roar and pulsation of life is no more than its heavy breathing .... ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The concept is the same: take carbon which is sequestered inertly in a solid or liquid form, consume the product, and release much/all of the carbon as methane, carbon dioxide, etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But then after a while, we just thought, well it might have been just a coincidence, but inertly, that she was something to do with it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So when he came into his hotel room and found his young wife huddled inertly beneath the bed-clothes, he picked up the telephone to summon tea and biscuits, administered a quick dose of contraband brandy, and then proceeded to an alternative not generally permitted a consulting detective when faced with a distressed client: He bundled Russell into the bath, undergarments and all, and turned the taps on hot and full. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2005)
She floated inertly while he clutched her, his face wet against her neck. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His limbs yielded inertly to the rude men that handled them, and down he went into his grave, so roughly bundled in that his neck was twisted by the fall, so twisted, that if the sharp malady of life were still upon him the old man would have shrieked and groaned, and the lines of his face would have quivered with pain. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He shut his eyes wearily, let his head roll to rest inertly, and quickly relaxed what he had regained of muscular control. ❋ Unknown (2003)
