Sentence examples for body paralysed from inspiring English sources

There are many reasons, among them the raw power of the subject matter: Schnabel's film is a dramatisation of the well-known memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the Elle editor who, at the age of 43, suffered a massive stroke that left every part of his body paralysed save for his left eye.

However, after weeks in coma, he woke up unable to speak, with half of his body paralysed.

In 1977, then just 26, Dannatt suffered a major stroke, rendering him unable to speak and leaving the right-hand side of his body paralysed.

To time the duration of their actions, he used a peculiar aspect of the dreaming mind: although the body is paralysed, eye movements tend to be translated to the body.

My whole body was paralysed.

Throughout these REM periods the muscles of the body are paralysed, presumably to prevent the dreamer from acting out the dream.

He realised when he came round after his accident, which had caused his heart to stop and his brain to be starved of oxygen for several minutes, that his body was paralysed.

The right side of my body was paralysed to the point that it took me seven months to be able to pick up a fork, a year to walk and learn how to talk again, play tennis.

When the spinal cord is injured every part of the body is paralysed below it and without sensation.

These terrible eyes-open dreams where my body is paralysed.

"Back in 1991, I was diagnosed with MS [multiple sclerosis]," Sandi tells me over the telephone, "I woke up one morning with everything on the left side of my body completely paralysed.