Word: torpor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...negotiable. Saving face is more important than telling the truth. Yet what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is striving to achieve is unusually straightforward. Since his inauguration in December 1988, Mexico's 42-year-old leader has trained his formidable skills on awakening his country from inward-looking torpor to a world where market forces are increasingly international and interdependent...
...poor and the hard-pressed urban middle class, who now have no alternative other than attending their crumbling local public school. And if some publicly run schools fail to compete successfully, they would go out of business. A brutal system perhaps, but one guaranteed to shake the torpor out of American education...
...lavish party to the next. Briefly the choruses of "interesting" drown out the arpeggios of the singing gondoliers. This preserves the idea that the Biennale has some kind of following outside the art world itself -- an illusion. For everyone then departs, leaving the festival in a state of utter torpor with three months...
...potential departure of one-third of the junior members of the English Department is shameful. And the fact that Harvard continues to wink at such crises without acknowledging the systemic problems at their root is evidence of the torpor which has taken hold at the top of this institution...