Word: inertly
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...more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed form begins to emerge from mute matter...
...savages have not had the preparation and education necessary to achieve grace, and that therefore they will be unable to comprehend or enjoy the abstruse doctrines which we must propound. Those who oppose the spreading of doctrine say that our construction of the Gospel will find the savage inert, with his wick untrimmed, unprepared for the marriage, and generally unannointed. They contend that our doctrine will fall upon barren ground...
...opened and shut like the gates of a canal lock. But what to make it of? Holter began a frantic search for a suitable material. He worked evenings and weekends, got only three or four hours' sleep a night. The valve had to be durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping his son alive until Holter could find his material. Finally Holter hit upon silicone plastic fins in a stainless steel body...
...than in this election. As a door-to-door campaigner, as a driver of voters and motorcades, as a poll-judge and leaflet distributor, the student can at last make idea meet action. It is also, by the way, a chance for the effect and scholarly to encounter the inert and proletarian. If the campaign efforts of a doorbell-ringer or a pamphlet-strewer seem meager, at least there is always the "value of the experience...
...federal aid to education: Eisenhower has attempted to reveal to the nation its educational inadequacies through his White House Conference on Education. But Stevenson through the campaign and previous speeches has done much more to dramatize this problem to an inert American public. While Eisenhower of late has concentrated on keeping the issue quiet, Stevenson has envisioned new areas, such as pay for teachers and scholarships for higher education, where federal aid must supplement the threadbare finances of the states...