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Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies.

From Time Magazine Archive

They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Black, bewildered, a horseshoe in his pocket, he sprawled torpidly on a bench behind his counsel.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could remember staring torpidly through these windows a hundred times out at the elms of the Center Common.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles