Word: inert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...therefore demand that you publicly retract your piece entitled 'Sleazy Letters'. We are not inert objects which can be used for your pleasure any time you want. And we will not be placated by your patting us on the heads and telling us "we're sorry" or "it was only humor." Your 'comedy' presupposed that we are all equal in this society but your racism ensures that the conditions of our oppression remain the same...
...those exquisite oblongs of color, he coaxed an amazing range of effects from a nominally simple format. Sometimes the paint has the grainy opacity of stone, sometimes it is no more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough...
...fertility hormones, like those that have been responsible for the rash of multiple births in recent years. That encourages the ripening of several eggs at one time. To get at the eggs, Steptoe turns to laparoscopy. While the woman is under anesthesia, an incision is made near the navel. Inert gases are pumped into the abdominal cavity to expand it and separate the organs, and the laparoscope is inserted to seek out appropriate eggs, which are then sucked into a small hollow needle...
...symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims to the contrary, progress is not forthcoming...
...this inert fleck?still unfamiliar to the vast majority of Americans?has astonishing powers that are already transforming society. For the so-called miracle chip has a calculating capability equal to that of a room-size computer of only 25 years ago. Unlike the hulking Calibans of vacuum tubes and tangled wires from which it evolved, it is cheap, easy to mass produce, fast, infinitely versatile and convenient...