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  • I brought it back to the ship, charged it up, reprogrammed the inertia chips, and voild!†   (source)
  • Ishmael had hung on to it in part from sheer inertia, in part because driving it reminded him of his father.†   (source)
  • But the greatest significance of Galileo was that he first formulated the so-called Law of Inertia.†   (source)
  • Inertia oozed like molasses through Elaine's limbs.†   (source)
  • She had seen this disorder every day without caring, but now, for the first time since the birth, she felt energy rather than inertia.†   (source)
  • Submarines had highly accurate inertial navigation systems able to fix their positions to within a few hundred yards from one second to another.†   (source)
  • He is sunk in deep inertia, a rancid sweat developing, his mouth filled with the foretaste of massive inner shiftings.†   (source)
  • But to have any chance against War Admiral, Smith knew he was going to have to make the habitually pace-stalking Seabiscuit, who had to fight the inertia of a much blockier heavier body, into a rocket-fast breaker.†   (source)
  • When bumper cars collide, the drivers feel a change in their motion and become aware of their inertia.†   (source)
  • Yossarian, blazing with rage and almost sobbing for revenge, hurled himself down into the crawlway and fought his way through against the dragging weight of gravity and inertia until he arrived at the main section and pulled himself up to the flight deck, to stand trembling behind McWatt in the pilot's seat.†   (source)
  • He fusses over what to do, back and forth-call Leona or not call-until inertia catches up with him and his mind turns in on itself.†   (source)
  • Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.†   (source)
  • His carefully sculpted pencil mustache and his expression of equanimity, cigarette in hand, bothered Ghosh because he saw in it his own inertia, the thing that had kept him in Africa so long.†   (source)
  • , who enlisted in the Army to escape the inertia of his hometown.†   (source)
  • The government of the country, maddeningly complicated to anyone unfamiliar with it, seemed devised intentionally to foster inertia.†   (source)
  • Such tenants as it sheltered were half-bankrupt, existing, as it did, on the inertia of the momentum of the past.†   (source)
  • Bounding around mostly weightless every night had made the laws of motion much more interesting, and having to run for her own life had given her a very real appreciation of inertia.†   (source)
  • The city had us, prisoners of its beauty and inertia.†   (source)
  • She walked backward for several steps, her movement inertial, tipsy, and then disappeared down the telescoping tunnel.†   (source)
  • I see light, magnetism, electricity, and gravity in equation, and the theory handily explains inertia.†   (source)
  • If anybody carried an inertial pathfinder in his luggage, he could have located site—but security was tight.†   (source)
  • Inertial control was induced by spinning plates of Brain lock.†   (source)
  • Neither missiles nor jets equipped with modern radar and inertial guidance would think of homing on a radio beam.†   (source)
  • There was nothing she could do at it, yet she felt it might redeem her a little from inertia.†   (source)
  • This was a ritual, deeply rooted in the soil of inexplicable neurosis and materialistic urgency, which' I have gone through many times since when vision and invention have flagged to the point of inertia, and both writing and reading have become burdensome to the spirit.†   (source)
  • Such inertia is not canceled in an instant, but I felt the body responses pass as they should.†   (source)
  • The inertia of psychological patterns.†   (source)
  • But seven people were nothing: they were worse than nothing, because they were evidence of the inertia of the uncapturable mass.†   (source)
  • You've got to wake up and shake off your inertia, pull yourself together and look at things without this impermissible arrogance, yes, yes, without this inexcusable haughtiness in regard to everyone, you must go back to work and take up your practice.†   (source)
  • He will be forced to act, to protect himself; yet he feels a strange inertia.†   (source)
  • Partly it was mission, partly inertia, partly adventure, partly a way of tracing the possibilities.†   (source)
  • A stupid question; though for me such a life, with its inertia and pity, had its secret attractions.†   (source)
  • Testing for inertia: Try a weightless water trick.†   (source)
  • Commercial systems were relegated to ten gravities of inertial control.†   (source)
  • Birds can feel the inertia of direction.†   (source)
  • They use inertial navigation systems, same as us.†   (source)
  • These are the laws of motion he laid down: The First Law of Motion: The Law of Inertia.†   (source)
  • The chart table was interfaced through the BC-10 into the ship's inertial navigation system, SINS.†   (source)
  • I must beware of inertia.†   (source)
  • That is because of the law of inertia.†   (source)
  • Mike dumped out some flowfoam cubes and then removed some jewelry of the type I'd seen handcrafted on Renaissance Vector, an inertial compass, a laser pen which might or might not be labeled a concealed weapon by ShipSecurity, another Harlequin costume-this one tailored to his more rotund form "and a hawking mat.†   (source)
  • Weren't they gravity and inertia?†   (source)
  • These Montforts had been prosperous once — they'd made a bundle on railroads — but through risky speculations and inertia they were already halfway down the slippery slope.†   (source)
  • One was the law of inertia, which Newton expressed thus: 'A body remains in its state of rest or rectilinear motion until it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed on it.'†   (source)
  • They are eager to share, to thrust that song in my hands, as if only "Tizita" explains the strange inertia that overcomes them; it explains how they were brilliant at home, the Jackson 5, the Temptations, and "Tizita" on their lips, a perfect Afro on their heads, bell-bottoms swishing above Double-O-Seven boots, and then the first foothold in America—behind the counter of a 7-Eleven, or breathing carbon mon oxide fumes in a Kinney underground parking lot, or behind the counter of an…†   (source)
  • Out of a desire to assuage it, she nearly took everything back, but she felt her earlier inertia, pushed aside with such great effort, lurking in the room.†   (source)
  • Paul Berlin, who had no desire to confront death until he was old and feeble, and who believed firmly that he could not survive a true battle in the mountains, marched up the road knowing he would not fight well, knowing it certainly, but still climbing, one step then the next, climbing, seeing each thing separately, a wildflower with white blossoms, a pebble rolling, always climbing, as if drawn along by some physical force—inertia or herd affinity or magnetic attraction.†   (source)
  • Church services on either end framed the intervening spread of inertia-a few phone calls, an outing to a mall in Silver Spring, some psychology reading for the class's dreaded second midterm in April, and plenty of TV.†   (source)
  • I sit at the espresso counter and have a cappuccino, to deal with the inertia that's come over me at the sight of so much sugar-coated self-indulgence.†   (source)
  • Maximum acceleration empty is ten gravities, since that is the maximum inertial control available to us.†   (source)
  • With careful use of gravitometers in the ship's inertial navigation system, he could plot the vessel's location to within a hundred meters, half the length of the ship.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure about getting an inertial system that permits it to be the dance floor—" "Ooo," Steren said, shuddering.†   (source)
  • Oh, yeah, no inertial damping!†   (source)
  • Russian skippers were known to pull some crazy stunts, and perhaps they were trusting to a combination of inertial systems, magnetic and gyro compasses attuned to a specific track.†   (source)
  • This was theoretically possible, but the captain quickly realized that the inertial navigation system had a built-in error factor of several hundred yards; this was aggravated by gravitational disturbances, which affected the "local vertical," which in turn affected the inertial fix.†   (source)
  • The revival of the educational spirit buried in the inertia of summer had begun, at least for Mama Brown.†   (source)
  • Command suits are heavy on go juice and jump juice, are fast and can jump high; they have three times as much comm & radar gear as other suits, and a dead-reckoning tracker, inertial.†   (source)
  • There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size.†   (source)
  • Here is the explanation of the victim's inertia," he said quietly.†   (source)
  • Inertia's thick buffer about the mind muffled it.†   (source)
  • He sighed: a tub of a man, with the complete and rocklike inertia of a tub.†   (source)
  • Because on your side you have reason—oh, I know, it's something no one really wants to have on his side—and against you, you have just a vague, fat, blind inertia.†   (source)
  • At length, goaded, he would lash his great bulk, lulled in the powerful inertia of its visions, into a cursing and violent movement.†   (source)
  • He suspected that she was deceiving him with a matador, perhaps with an actor,—between the flattery of the court and the inertia of gout he could not quite make out who it was; at all events, it was clear that the singer was beginning to forget that he was one of the first men in the world.†   (source)
  • She would have no light burning because she would be out of the house soon, and probably some mental descendant or kinsman of him or her who had told her once that light and moving air carried heat had also told her that the cost of electricity was not in the actual time the light burned but in the retroactive overcoming of primary inertia when the switch was snapped: that that was what showed on the meter.†   (source)
  • He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.†   (source)
  • But a kind of inertia engendered by loss kept him where he was, and he leaned back broodily against the skylight.†   (source)
  • Just as in the history of the universe, so also in that of nations: emanation leads to dissolution, youth to age, birth to death, form-creative vitality to the dead weight of inertia.†   (source)
  • First my inertia-and then my views.†   (source)
  • We see that he had in him strong impulses both to be a saint and a profligate; and yet he could not, owing to some weakness or inertia, make the plunge into the untrammelled realms of space.†   (source)
  • The house too seemed filled with familiar sounds, but mostly with inertia, a terrible procrastination as he gazed down the dim hall, thinking Why don't she come on.†   (source)
  • It was neither courage nor loyalty; it was inertia; they had lived too long with the thought that the world would end if they lost their jobs on the Banner.†   (source)
  • …food and keeping warm in the mountain way, or if perhaps somebody his father knew once or who knew his father once and remembered him, happened to think about him, or someone kin to him who had tried to forget him and couldn't quite do it, had sent for him and he obeying, going not for the promised job but for the ease, having faith perhaps in the blood kinship to evade the labor if it was kinship, in his own inertia and in whatever gods had watched over him this far if it were not.†   (source)
  • But once this inertia has been overcome and movement is under way they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.†   (source)
  • Partly from pride, but more from the powerful brooding inertia of his temper, which more and more was governing his will to act, he found himself unable to speak.†   (source)
  • It is as though, for all her frozen and mechanically moved inertia, she had come for some definite purpose or at least with some vague hope.†   (source)
  • He went on, driven by inertia.†   (source)
  • Something ate with us; we talked to it and it answered questions; it sat with us before the fire at night and, rousing without any warning from some profound and bemused complete inertia, talked, not to us, the six ears, the three minds capable of listening, but to the air, the waiting grim decaying presence, spirit, of the house itself; talking that which sounded like the bombast of a madman who creates within his very coffin walls his fabulous immeasurable Camelot: and Carcassonne.†   (source)
  • …apron cradled about the gathered eggs) and asked them why? why there? why must it be just there? and they both stopped long and more than long enough for Jones to turn and spit again and say, 'Because hit wouldn't be so fur to tote the box' and how before my very back was turned he—one of them—added further, out of some amazed and fumbling ratiocination of inertia, how 'Hit would be simpler yit to fetch him down and nail the planks around him, only maybe Missus Judy wouldn't like hit.†   (source)
  • But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.†   (source)
  • Opiates are the Devil's tool, for they create dullness, rigidity, stagnation, slavish inertia.†   (source)
  • It went of itself, like all such boards, by the mere force of inertia.†   (source)
  • The night passed in this way, without the crew ever emerging from their usual inertia.†   (source)
  • For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility.†   (source)
  • It's a decaying institution that goes on running only by the force of inertia.†   (source)
  • She could not determine whether she was checked by fear or him, or by inertia—by dislike of the emotional labor of the "scenes" which would be involved in asserting independence.†   (source)
  • I would willingly have gone oc spoiling his life through inertia—one has nothing to do, one belongs nowhere and becomes a public nuisance without realizing it.†   (source)
  • He hesitated, and I had the impression that he felt himself about to yield to a stealing tide of inertia; then, "Thank you-I'll take it," he answered shortly.†   (source)
  • High-stepping horses or elaborately equipped motors waited to carry these ladies into vague metropolitan distances, whence they returned, still more wan from the weight of their sables, to be sucked back into the stifling inertia of the hotel routine.†   (source)
  • …saying something, because she believed that it was good for her throat, and that by keeping the blood there in circulation it would make less frequent the chokings and other pains to which she was liable; besides, in the life of complete inertia which she led she attached to the least of her sensations an extraordinary importance, endowed them with a Protean ubiquity which made it difficult for her to keep them secret, and, failing a confidant to whom she might communicate them,…†   (source)
  • You see, what confuses the world is the incongruity between the swift flight of the mind and matter's vast clumsy slowness, its dogged persistence and inertia.†   (source)
  • Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.†   (source)
  • But it was also by the force of inertia; there was in his soul that want of adaptability which can be seen in the bodies of certain people who, when the moment comes to avoid a collision, to snatch their clothes out of reach of a flame, or to perform any other such necessary movement, take their time (as the saying is), begin by remaining for a moment in their original position, as though seeking to find in it a starting-point, a source of strength and motion.†   (source)
  • One could call the first the Asiatic principle, the other the European, for Europe was the continent of rebellion, critique, and transforming action, whereas the continent to the east embodied inertia and inactivity.†   (source)
  • When it is not employed as an honest device of classical rhetoric, the purpose of which no healthy mind can doubt for a moment, it becomes a source of depravity, a barrier to civilization, a squalid flirtation with inertia, nihilism, and vice.†   (source)
  • One must despise it insofar as it is the principle of gravity and inertia opposing the flow toward the light, insofar as it represents the principle of disease and death, insofar as its quintessence is a matter of perversity, of corruption, of lust and disgrace.†   (source)
  • …after the Bad Russian couple had left the adjacent balcony), was in part the magic of the winter night, particularly since until eleven it was interwoven with music drifting up, now near, now far, from the valley—but primarily it was languor and excitement, both at once and in combination: the languor and weary inertia of his body and the busy excitement of a mind that could find no rest in its preoccupation with the new and fascinating studies the young man had recently taken up.†   (source)
  • …when, for example, Leo Naphta defended the fundamental, archrevolutionary nature of the Church against the teachings of Herr Settembrini, who asserted that her sole historical purpose had been to serve as the patron of the dark forces of inertia and reaction and then went on to claim that the affirmation of life and a future open to revolution and renewal was bound up with the opposing principles of enlightenment, science, and progress, which had arisen in the glorious epoch that…†   (source)
  • Dazed and giddy, he quivered with exhilaration, just as he often did after a colloquy with Naphta and Settembrini, except this time the feeling was incomparably stronger— which may have been how he came to excuse his own inertia in fighting off such attacks of self-narcosis by reminiscing drunkenly about their discussions.†   (source)
  • You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct—not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.†   (source)
  • The great difficulty was in suddenly overcoming the inertia of so large a mass, for once in motion, it was easy to cause the scow to skim the water with all the necessary speed.†   (source)
  • To his vehemence they secretly oppose their inertia; to his revolutionary tendencies their conservative interests; their homely tastes to his adventurous passions; their good sense to the flights of his genius; to his poetry their prose.†   (source)
  • We call it by many names,—fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime: they are all forms of old age: they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia; not newness, not the way onward.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The state to which that part of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was the halt.†   (source)
  • Result: a soap-bubble and inertia.†   (source)
  • It took some little time to overcome the inertia of the logs, and while this was being done by the silent Indian, Rivenoak stalked over the hemlock boughs that lay between the logs in sullen ferocity, eyeing keenly the while the hut, the platform and the person of his late disputant.†   (source)
  • And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.†   (source)
  • In the depth of my heart there was no faith in my suffering, only a faint stir of mockery, but yet I did suffer, and in the real, orthodox way; I was jealous, beside myself …. and it was all from ENNUI, gentlemen, all from ENNUI; inertia overcame me.†   (source)
  • Better conscious inertia!†   (source)
  • …on the everlasting theme, that even for the stone wall you are yourself somehow to blame, though again it is as clear as day you are not to blame in the least, and therefore grinding your teeth in silent impotence to sink into luxurious inertia, brooding on the fact that there is no one even for you to feel vindictive against, that you have not, and perhaps never will have, an object for your spite, that it is a sleight of hand, a bit of juggling, a card-sharper's trick, that it is…†   (source)
  • He wouldbe sort of grand too, pulling in lonely state across the noon, rowinghimself right out ofnoon, up the long bright air like an apotheosis, mounting into a drowsing infinity where only he and the gull, the one terrificallymotionless, the other in a steadyand measured pull and recover that partook of inertia itself, the world punily beneath their shadows on the sun.†   (source)
  • What play of forces, inducing inertia, rendered departure undesirable?†   (source)
  • …and hope continuing on the same, Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love, Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all; Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast, The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me, The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct, The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends.†   (source)
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