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Set inside a cartoonlike house, the works show Brown standing or sitting with the zombielike cool of a numbed survivor.
We huddle together to fit skins to our skis, fingers instantly numbed to frozen sausages.
At a time when the world is numbed with barbarities and deceits, Fanon, with his passionate anger, needs to be rediscovered.
However, being drunk has always numbed my pain, and for that, the hangover has always been worth it.
You may need to have your gums numbed with an injection of local anaesthetic before the scaling, and you may feel a little discomfort afterwards.
For example, the arm can be numbed with an injection into the upper arm or armpit to allow a broken wrist to be treated.
The mouth and throat are numbed up or frozen with a local anesthetic until all cough and gag reflexes are gone.
The pain hurt Spinner, but his mind was in a daze so bad that he was almost numbed.
I found the only thing that numbed the pain was whisky, so I began drinking a bottle a day.
I'm sure circumcised men are probably far better lovers due to the fact that their sensations are numbed.
Are their senses numbed by visual culture, we wonder, or are they simply getting the programmes they deserve?
Poor countries face chronic crises so dire that the world's sensibilities have been numbed to them.
The alcohol helped, dulled his memories and finally numbed them, as it always did.
Cold air numbed her bare fingers and she held them close to her, putting her hands in the pockets of her coat.
A painful headache numbed his senses, and his nose was so clogged up he couldn't speak correctly.
The loss of nearly a generation of their children in the concentration camps numbed rural Afrikaners into a stolid hatred of British authority.
Without wishing to torment a good man having a bad week, Gold's reaction to a patchily upbeat survey had the numbed quality of a man reading someone else's script.
The skin is numbed using a local anesthetic, and a needle or catheter is inserted into the abdomen to drain the fluid.
Even with his offending ankle numbed by a painkiller shot, he appeared uncomfortable, huffing and puffing and repeatedly tying his shoe between pitches.
Millions of citizens were displaced, neighbourhoods were cleansed along sectarian lines, and an entire population numbed by unchecked brutality.
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I was bitterly cast down, crestfallen, numbed with the blow of her refusal.
Just at the outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression on her numbed brain.
The dividing line between snow and rain still was heavily marked, but it sleeted and our hands were quite numbed.
Her fatigue became so great that she staggered and hobbled about on her numbed legs.
Do you know, Jan, that when the very worst has happened, you get kind of numbed.
His brain was numbed and he was blinded by the blood from the laceration over his eyes.
In her numbed brain was no flicker of thought as to whatever might come to her afterward.
Here, when all else was numbed by loneliness and hunger and unsuccess, it waked and warned me.
They had the undiscerning look of one whose mind is numbed, as hers might well be.
Choking, he managed with numbed fingers to screw his helmet on.
When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.
As for myself, the bonds of will which held me inactive seemed like bands of steel which numbed all my faculties, except sight and hearing.
He broke his bowstring, and his hand was numbed at the wrist-joint.
But her brain was too numbed for reasoning and for coherent thought.
At other times she slept through long stupors, waking stunned and numbed, scarcely able to open her heavy eyes, to move her weary limbs.
Telemachus got up on his numbed feet and stretched his legs.
Pachmann, white with pain, was nursing a numbed and nerveless hand.
I see the power and potential of poetry residing in that realm, in the ways a poem may touch our emotionally numbed selves and thus inspirit, inspire, and even transform us.
Nearer to the grinder a few more urchins were dancing, but in the case of this lad his hands and feet looked numbed, and he kept biting the end of his sleeve and shivering.
For a minute or so I clung there to my battered flyer, now useless beyond redemption, my brain numbed by the frightful catastrophe that had befallen me.
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