Unit 3, Lesson 16

His smooth, placid demeanor is perfect here, which make the few times he does snap seem that much more startling. Seattle Times (Sep 11, 2012)

Pure gold is chemically inert and passes through the human digestive system without being absorbed into the body. Slate (Jul 16, 2012)

Inside, the sickest lie listless, too tired to get up, or perhaps beyond caring.

As demonstrated on Earth, the organic remains of long-ago life are far better preserved in the muddy deposits of a quiescent lake bottom.

The Delaware Water Gap is a quiet, serene stretch of river surrounded by green forest. New York Times (Jul 20, 2012)

Thus, these rules are not static; they are living and breathing all the time. Forbes (Sep 24, 2012)

He reported to training camp overweight, slow and lethargic. New York Times (Jun 4, 2012)

Such a study is not easy to conduct, however: A moratorium on chimp breeding has made young chimp brains hard to come by, Sherwood says.

He was always moving, never stagnating, even with his own music. Seattle Times (Aug 7, 2012)

Here and there a man leaning over a broken cask was guzzling at its contents in a torpor of drunkenness. Cahan, Abraham

His troops were relieved as mine came up, to give them a respite till morning. Longstreet, James

In the meantime murder, which never goes on hiatus, continues apace.

For perhaps twenty minutes Vaughan sat alone in the library, his mind, after the long strain of all he had undergone, singularly torpid. Clark, Ellery H.