When the cats went into REM sleep, they didn't lie immobilized in the dream world; they scrambled up, arched their backs and acted out all sorts of aggressive automatic behaviors.
Late in the book, Québécois separatists shoot him in the shoulder while he is trying to protect his charges, and many of the novel's final hundred pages depict Gately's thoughts as he lies immobilized in his hospital bed, going over his life in his mind.
Today he lies immobilized in a hospital room, his hopes and the records of his years of work blasted away in a power ful pre‐dawn bomb explosion that ripped a college building shared by the physics depart ment and the Army‐supported Mathematics Research Center.
Soto finally fights his way free, lowering these harridans onto the floor, where they lie supine, immobilized.
So I couldn't, as was my impulse, just lie in bed immobilized with horror, obsessively imagining dreadful things to come.
A witness to the pursuit that preceded Mr. Hernandez-Llach's death in the early hours of Aug. 6 said officers laughed and exchanged high-fives as he lay on the ground, immobilized.
Other witnesses described people falling to the ground, lying crumpled on the pavement and immobilized against walls and poles.
Mute and nearly immobilized ever since, she lies on floral sheets at the General Hospital, her Bible tucked beside her pillow, her 25-year-old adopted son by her side day and night.
He recalled lying behind a fallen power pole, immobilized by fear and feeling strangely detached from the situation.
