Both Uses of
inertia
in
War and Peace
- Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged concentration on some one thought.†
Chpt 5 *
- The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them; we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal force, and so on, but we are conscious of the force of life in man and we call that freedom.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(inertia) a tendency to continue in the same manner -- such as sit still and do nothing or continue moving in a particular direction