inert

Surrounded by inert goods, we felt hemmed in, pushed toward a lifestyle cul-de-sac.

Instead of upending the genre as Joe Millionaire did, the inert Harry mostly shows how much things have changed since then.

Is the market an inert force to be manipulated and exploited, to deprive it of hard-earned cash?

(The choppy, inert 2000 TV movie with Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd barely registered a blip).

By doing so, we make the tax code more progressive, and mobilize capital that is otherwise inert.

Inside the Continental Exhibition Corporation one man was slumped over a desk, an automatic half-gripped in his inert hand.

Inert forms were being carried out of houses where chimneys or skylights had gone through the roof.

So inert, despondent, and lethargic a moment before, he now seemed full to overflowing of life and animation.

The next moment it wilted, rolled downward with outstretched arms, and collapsed upon the gravel, an inert mass.

Mrs Beazeley, the housekeeper, has become inert and querulous from rheumatism and the burden of added years.