Sentence examples for as paralyzed from inspiring English sources

Monarch butterflies also shiver to stay warm, or use their wings as solar panels, unless the temperature really plunges, and then they're as paralyzed as this bumblebee was, and easy prey.

Otherwise your frustration may just pull you one way, and your cute aggression the other, until you're as paralyzed as – well, as two golden retrievers trying to play with the same ball.

As investors scream for their money back, hedge fund managers are as paralyzed as the rest of Wall Street.

"I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope," is her quintessential one-liner.

What if a couple of firefighters are depicted as paralyzed by fear, the way an American soldier was, with disastrous consequences, in the acclaimed "Saving Private Ryan"?

These city dwellers are as paralyzed by self-consciousness as the characters of Chekhov's rural estates are, but with an energizing urban restlessness.

The reader wishes fervently that this new prison won't be as demeaning or as paralyzing as the old one.

But naïveté can be just as paralyzing.

That nostalgia could be a source of mental resilience and motivation directly challenges certain critics' notion of the sentiment as paralyzing, a harbinger of cultural stagnation.

It is a petty monster able to work such humdrum tricks as paralyzing you over your salad, convincing you that a choice between blue cheese and vinaigrette is as dire as that between life and death.

In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.