Sentence examples for numb state from inspiring English sources

The survival instinct is shown to exist in a weird, numb state that combines defiance and resignation.

The episode left Bellevue — a city of 2,350 nestled against the Mississippi River that draws its former residents home this time of year — in a numb state of disbelief.

Then a moment of revelation, and a realisation that the only salve for his numb state is love: "Mama caught me cryin', cryin', cryin'/I won't find somebody that's real".

His repeated, sometimes dolorous, sometimes analytic attempt to make sense of the senseless, to find an overview that accommodates his family's tragedy and his own role in it, does not mar the book but is among its chief virtues -- a sort of verité rendering of the obsessional, alternately panicked and numb state that is a hallmark of traumatizing proximity to violence.

It is in this numb state that we take no action and disconnect from our own humanity through our prejudice and silence.

Always remain calm, cool, and collected to use your newly acquired emotionally numb state to your lifetime advantage.

That's the unkindest cut of all, especially given the competition offered this week by professional show business: Barbra Streisand's numbing State of Her Union filibuster at the Golden Globes.

He described a country almost sedated, made numb by state television, its young people disinterested in world affairs and its president, General Charles de Gaulle, content with inaugurating monuments and visiting agricultural fairs.

Others may show psychological signs, like disorientation, a numbed trancelike state, or disordered vocalizations like "What the...," "How in the name of...," "Oh, lord, no".

I believe we are all meant to be flames - not numb, frozen states of matter, and not a gaseous puff of past that has gone up in smoke.

I spent much of my time there on autopilot, numb, in a state of shock (no pun intended).