Word: inertia
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...boycott of CRR has flopped and is continuing only on its own inertia. Like so many meaningless Harvard traditions, it should be abandoned. Gregory S. Sergienko...
Once we are compelled to recognize Harvard's venerable past and accept it as such, we must then look at its present. Do we choose the approach of Harvard's faculty and allow inertia to paralyze our minds and our motivation, or do we discard the indulgence of self-admiration that seems to grip the University today...
...wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace with the wife and daughter he deserted, the father he fought with and the town he despised for its conformist inertia. What follows is what the British critics call "the American barroom confessional play," in which the characters gorge beer and disgorge bathos. By play's end, nothing much has changed. Mansfield is still a place where worms do not turn, and Bobby is still a man who, despite his raging...
...first two books were published simultaneously, and on the whole the claim that she is one of the most promising writers around right now seems justified. Both Chilly Scenes, a novel, and Distortions, a collection of short stories, center on the same theme: the emptiness of relationships formed through inertia, the bleak mindlessness of lives without purpose...
...dislodge great lumps of space, they also have a light, affable air to them. The larger, recent mobiles are rather less exhilarating, at least when hung in a museum: the response to air has gone, and it takes a shove, not a zephyr, to overcome their inertia...