She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that.

He was sitting inert, and staring into the middle distance.

It is a fantasy about fantasy, about the experience of sitting inert in the dark while your mind enters another world.

Other times I sat inert in this same chair, in this very room, like a child's toy set aside.

The four missile trucks were sitting inert.

He turned and saw the Cadillac, still sitting inert on the shoulder.

Huddled in a blanket, she sat inert and unaware.

They left the manmech sitting inert, its solar panels repowering.

He sat inert before his board, as if he could see nothing but the lights on the screen.

Some can pull the trick off, but for others the plot sits inert, like a Congressional bill eternally stuck in committee.