The still fields, the slanting sunlight on the long rows of cotton-plants, the cloud-draped mountains, grimly mocked him in their placidinactivity when it seemed to him that the very universe ought to be striving in her behalf.
He had the courage to scold me pretty sharply, too, about--well, about my inactivity just at this time.
It was the incongruity of such a persuasion being united to a helpless inactivity of mind in matters of study that made Isaac Hecker a puzzle to his very self, to say nothing of those who had to decide his place in the order.
For this enforced inactivity he recompensed himself by continual and earnest conversations, for the purpose of gaining to his ideas all whom he believed capable of understanding them, whether Protestants or Catholics.
Their inactivity seems idleness to them, and they mistake the restless impulse which bids them be up and doing for the voice of conscience or the inspiration of heavenly wisdom; but it is neither.
Now and again the old scruples about this apparent inactivity returned upon him, and we find him contracting his personal needs within a compass so narrow that his support shall be felt as the least possible burden.
But the two men, burning for active service, determined to make a bold effort to escape relegation to the dull inactivity of Bangalore.
And thisinactivity does not by any means arise from actual stupidity.
On Monday, the 28th, there was nothing more severe than a bombardment and intermittent sniping, and this inactivity continued during Tuesday, the 29th, except for a night attack against our extreme right.
The sudden attack of the negro so surprised most of the marines, who were not looking for any active resistance after the men had thrown up their hands, that there was an appreciable moment of inactivity which held back their fire.
Finally becoming tired of such long inactivity he arose and boldly stepped out into and across the clearing.
The inactivity of our Government, or its delay, which they assume is the same as inactivity, is attributed to domestic politics or to the lack of national, consciousness or unity.
In his worry over inactivity he had found himself falling into queer little illusions lately.
But inactivity was hard on his merry heart; he fretted and fussed at having nothing to do; he raged at having to throw away unused bread because it was growing stale.
Father could not face another indefinite period of such inactivity as had been sapping him all summer.
Inactivity produces softness, debility, and unfitness for the functions they are designed to perform.
Inactivity of intellect and of feeling is a very frequent predisposing cause of every form of nervous disease.
Thus I have shown that opium does not, of necessity, produce inactivityor torpor.
It was with unspeakable relief that she arose from this enforced inactivity and, as evening drew on, resumed her work.
Anything was better than the awful inactivity of that well-nigh interminable journey.
The apparent inactivity of the enemy during this day of the 11th of October was explained by his desire to turn our position and surround us with all his forces in the loop of the Scheldt.
They know the perils of the trenches, and they prefer them to the inactivity of being kept in reserve.
But nevertheless the search after the Zulu king seemed to partake of the same inactivity which had prevailed from the first.
He was not only weary of the enforced inactivity and anxious to set in order his new home, but his relations with his sister distressed him.
As for Annchen, the present period of inactivity was even more trying to her.
Almost for three weeks this inactivity was maintained.
But on account of the comparative inactivity which was maintained most of the time along this line, their names did not figure largely.
That Hannibal, who lay in a state of torpid inactivity in consequence of a delusion which would not continue long, had neither attacked his camp, left as it was without a leader, nor had directed his course in pursuit of him.
The life of inactivity gradually depressed my spirits, and I fell into a low and moping condition, in which my hours rolled over without thought or notice.
At the same time, it should be pointed out that their stability of price is largely fictitious, owing to the comparative inactivity of the issues.
The feature which chiefly determines the activity or inactivity of a municipal issue is the size and importance of the municipality, together with the amount of bonds which it has outstanding.
The horror of this inactivity grew upon him and focussed itself to a great, loud, liberative cry that should cut his bonds like a knife and loose him from this awful lethargy.
Hour after hour passed with little or no improvement, and as every hour of inactivity was a real menace to the success of their plans, no one can wonder that they chafed over this most exasperating delay.
As, according to the testimony of Herr von Haller, activity of mind during the day tends to quicken the pulse towards evening, will not indolence of mind make it more sluggish, and absolute inactivity completely stop it?
It did not seem to occur to any one that this very inactivity of the confederates, which misled the people of Antwerp, might also keep back the Zealanders at Lille, as in fact it did.
For how can the mind derive at the same time from itself the principles of inactivity and of activity, if it is not itself divided, and if it is not in opposition with itself?
It fetters in inactivity the bulk of the human faculties, and thereby lessens the number and variety of the natural sources of the pleasures of life.
Poverty begetting despair, and despair destroying hope, the incentive to action, the powers of genius sunk into the torpidity of stupefaction, and the strength of a lion slumbered in the inactivity of a sloth.
But he was in the prime of life; his age was thirty-two when he was imprisoned; and the inactivity and severance from his wife and little children were hard to bear.
France regarded the terms of alliance as extravagant, while she was anxious to hold the Dutch to their present friendship and inactivity rather than to stir them to war.
His resolution unfortunately came somewhat too late, for his indolence and inactivity had permitted the growth of a spirit that no measures could now quell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inactivity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
