So he stood at the bedside, gripping his father's arm, benumbed by the emotions his father was displaying, the emotions he himself was feeling. |
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In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency. |
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These weeks, however, when we are gathered together benumbed and in need of each other are not the moments for critical analysis. |
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The lights from the cars parked outside cut through the curtains and fall on Doug's exhausted, benumbed face. |
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration. |
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Sheree stood there benumbed by what just occurred and by the fact that despite her convictions, she had so little regrets, too. |
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I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air. |
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Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each. |
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Sitting as close to the fire as possible, I tried to warm up my benumbed fingers. |
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Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready. |
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Shall she be the Bondslave of Time, the Handmaid of opinion, or the strict observer of every frosty or cold benumbed imagination? |
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By now, everyone is so benumbed that it takes the truly weird even to register at all. |
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As Cameron speaks, at last the truth sinks into Tristan's benumbed brain. |
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Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality. |
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Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality. |
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Duly benumbed, you may slip the odd item of power or caprice into a pocket of memory, to take home. |
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The scene is so extreme, the physical and psychological violence is so hard to bear, that McQueen's direction seems benumbed. |
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It's not uncommon for survivors of catastrophes to feel benumbed by what they have experienced. |
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His hand left his weapon and trailed down his friend's benumbed arm. |
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Rightly, I was underlining lately that after zazen, when you stand up to do kin-hin, you have the legs benumbed. |
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Even after twenty years of practice, you have the legs benumbed, it is normal. |
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Finally, as the sea roughened, Miss Brooke could no longer hold on to her colleague, who slipped away from her benumbed grasp. |
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So the fury of Frank's finger passes to those of us who have been benumbed by today's proliferating, meaningless urban menhirs — street after street a corridor of dead souls. |
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Marisa, after a day of acute pains, in the afternoon was struck by a deforming arthrosis at her right hand, so that her fingers had been benumbed and become contracted and the strong pain had struck also her arm. |
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Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead. |
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Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence. |
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