inertia

"Given inertia and the typical invisibility of subscription payments, you're probably committing to a much longer subscription period than anticipated," Rick said.

That there is a constitutional crisis has been obscured by design, the flurry of executive orders leading not just to a freeze in federal spending but inertia among a bewildered opposition.

But the movie is sluggish to the point of inertia.

The biggest catalyst of anger is a smothering sense of inertia - a collective sense of a state failure to confront monstrous crimes, deliver justice and prevent it continuing to happen.

The court said that authorities were "still in a state of inertia despite 40 years".