torpor

These are times of torpor in Paris, politically as well as economically.

But it was first and foremost an attempt to wake up America from the torpor of the daily grind under its meritocratic overlords.

He relapsed into a sort of torpor from which he was aroused by enthusiastic applause and bravos.

Only torpor is the supreme sin, even as in The Statue and the Bust where effort would have been to a criminal end.