Sentence examples for numb language from inspiring English sources
I dunno, maybe its due to years and years of Rudy Giuliani's noun-verb construction or the simplistic, numb language of George W. Bush beating the common sense out of our ears, but it is as clear as can be that the reason we are in Afghanistan is because of 9/11.
It is, after all, the genre that gave the phrase "comfortably numb" to the language.
Such behavior is also described as appearing agitated or numb or using profane language.
The third, concerning a prostitute and a businessman, is a complex fugue of mistaken desire and cross purposes, rendered in language of numb precision: "It's not like that," she says when he suggests they leave together.
It makes the ferocity of the men seem more futile -- the soldiers whose language preferred the numbing "terminate with prejudice" to "kill".
After graduating from Harvard Law, he landed a job spending 16 hours a day reviewing contract language, a process he called mind-numbing.
