| When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor. |
| Behind the picture-book porticos, manicured lawns and mile-wide smiles lie anxiety, self-loathing and torpor. |
| She is living with them in conditions of domestic comfort but emotional torpor in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth. |
| Indeed, if they find themselves restrained by a new gripping torpor, they will soon weary of being part of the EU family. |
| Hasn't the Church always regained her strength in times of moral torpor by recalling the heights from which it has fallen? |
| The chorus has that air of resigned lethargy and torpor which regularly lowers over those with little or no hope. |
