Sentence examples for crippling case from inspiring English sources

But a crippling case of writer's block kept her from writing for 40 years.

For one thing, all that wonderful information that computers and networks have placed at our fingertips can leave us with a crippling case of information overload, as Susan Martin noted.

Henry Miller apparently thought a lot of one oil painting, but there were also long periods in which she produced no work at all – due, Hodgkin claims, to a crippling case of perfectionism.

She muses that it, along with mega-doses of goat yogurt, may be the reason she was the only cast member of "Cairo Time," which just finished a six-week shoot in Egypt, not to contract a crippling case of food poisoning.

It's about a guy who loves a girl, but whenever he sees her, is overcome with a crippling case of "needles and pins".

It's easy to get pumped about traveling abroad, but if you've ever been punished with a crippling case of jet lag, you know the struggle to reboot your body clock in unfamiliar territory is very real.

Sam Lipsyte's third novel, "The Ask," is a dark and jaded beast — the sort of book that, if it were an animal, would be a lumbering, hairy, crypto­zoological ape-man with a near-crippling case of elephantiasis.

But for carrying more than two people — or if you have a near-crippling case of range anxiety — you'll need to pay more for one of the other EVs.

Not crippling in my case: just a touch of Asperger's.

The wear of metal parts against each other is generating debris that is damaging tissue and, in some cases, crippling patients.

In adults, excess fluoride intake is associated with effects ranging from increased bone mass to joint pain and stiffness and, in extreme cases, crippling skeletal fluorosis.