torpid

(of a hibernating animal) dormant; having greatly reduced metabolic activity

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Anandpur Sahib torpidly sprawls in the foothills of the Shivalik range.

Waiting that night at the train station, he realizes, "There was no opening, no road cut out for what he was waiting for--only these cold red shooting stars, this numbed and inattentive world, this dreamy station torpidly waiting to go to sleep" At the end of his quiet, painful story, Simon is paralyzed.

Julien Gracq. The Peninsula

The Opposition was visible no more than as a contest of power, whilst the mass of the nation stood torpidly by as a prize."

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