Sentence examples for numb inside from inspiring English sources

He tried to struggle through Lovecraft pastiches, but at the first painfully serious reference to the Elder Gods, he felt some important part of him going numb inside, the way a foot or a hand will go to sleep when the circulation is cut off.

To take in so much death leaves you empty, thoughtless, quiet inside, numb.

And nobody wants to hand over their love lives to a brand that makes them feel numb on the inside.

"Just because we are putting on a smile, laughing, trying to live life, doesn't mean we aren't crying... scared and numb on the inside.

"Woman Down" harkens back to the Morissette of the last Millennium but in a new world while "empathy" and "numb" get inside the complexities of emotional entanglements.

Some condoms are coated with a slight numbing gel on the inside.

I used alcohol as my crutch to numb the feelings inside.

Not much was different on the outside, but on the inside, I felt numb.

But let us also acknowledge those who returned home, alive and well, but feeling empty, numb, even dead, on the inside.

I was hollow inside; I was emotionally numb.

She is all too aware that beneath his charm, Dick Diver, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," is a moral weakling, that John Updike's Rabbit is a heel, that Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman is a womanizer and that Frank Bascombe, from Richard Ford's "Sportswriter" and "Independence Day," is trapped inside a numb psyche.