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atrophied

«Sedentary people have shriveled hearts and most of us who do not exercise have an atrophied body.»
«To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.»
«Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.»
«If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.»
«The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.»
«Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.»
«The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.»