And all these colourless eventless lives depend on the favour of one fat tyrannical man, bloated with good living and authority, himself almost as inert and sedentary as his women, and accustomed to impose his whims on them ever since he ran about the same patio as a little short-smocked boy.

Life at The Navhind Times was sedentary by comparison.

Tulee wondered why her vivacious little pet had all of a sudden become so sedentary in her habits,why she never took her customary rambles except when Mr. Fitzgerald was gone, and even then never without her sister.