Walter Gropius

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

German Architect

William Wordsworth

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

English Poet

Gerard De Nerval

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.

French Novelist

Charles Hazlewood

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

British Musician

Scott Stossel

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

American Journalist

Indicates a lack of energy or interest that might hint at sadness or depression.

Emotional Nuance

Often used metaphorically to describe organizations or groups that are inactive.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys a more intense form of inactivity compared to just being 'idle' or 'lazy.'

Intensity

In Zoology, it's a survival strategy, not laziness.

Energy Conservation

Different from hibernation, torpor can be daily and is less 'deep.'

Not Hibernation

Occurs in response to environmental factors like temperature or food scarcity.

Triggered By Environment

 one is definitely feeding and the way I can tell is that when Lee's another one over here don't forget about that one do you have three you have three feet of you so what's really Kyle is are you leaving on me that one just bit me it kind of hurts when leeches are feeding they go into complete torpor they're

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 to just making sure that what I'm saying to you there is truth I'm pretty sure it is but the great example in this particular area is a bush baby Bush babies do it every day they go into a state of torpor they drop their body drop their body temperatures much but

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 Or it could be your mom. And you'd been acting out of character. These are free traits. You're very agreeable, but you act disagreeably in order to break down those barriers of administrative torpor in the hospital,

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 flying off to seek its breakfast elsewhere. After all this fighting, feeding, and flying, hummingbirds sometimes need to sleep off the day’s events in a mild form of hibernation called torpor.

Torpor