| A Cuban cigar rested between his right index and middle fingers, burning torpidly. |
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| While racing's authorities torpidly contemplate these implications, jockeys must earn their daily rice-cake. |
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| The editor was resting casually in his leather chair, torpidly thumbing through a pile of photographs. |
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| His performance, torpidly solemn and self-conscious as a potential Oscar winner, has a fraction of the zip of his comic turns in Pirates of the Caribbean and Ed Wood. |
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| The Opposition was visible no more than as a contest of power, whilst the mass of the nation stood torpidly by as a prize. |
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| But though the book is organized torpidly, the Tools themselves retain a fascination, in part because you're never sure if you'll turn the page and Stutz and Michels will go into some full-bore flip-out. |
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| Scaring riveted not only the witness's attention but that of the jurors as well, who went from staring torpidly ahead of them to looking alive and interested. |
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| Anandpur Sahib torpidly sprawls in the foothills of the Shivalik range. |
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