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• s  slow and apathetic
  a mind grown torpid in old age
• s  in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  torpid frogs

• To shrug off its torpid ratings, the television channel decided to bring in some spice.
• The torpid pace of the opera resonated with the languid musical score.
• The World Cup finals did for the torpid economy what no stimulus package could ever do.

• inert
• sluggish
• soggy
• dormant
• hibernating

News & Articles

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• Beers of summer
  To ferment lagers during the Middle Ages, German brewers would stow casks in caves across the hinterlands to exploit the dry, cold environs within – or, as Orlandoans mired in the sweltering Central Florida summer might describe that setting, “Heaven.” Cold beer has long been a useful weapon to combat torpid July afternoons, even in the olden days, but unless you can hop in a time machine ...
  June 25, 2013 - Orlando Weekly

Quotes

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• Constance L. Rice in Los Angeles Times
  The history of the construction program . . . mandated that any successful school construction program would have to be independent of the district's inefficient, notoriously torpid bureaucracy,Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney who serves...