Sentence examples for paralysed as from inspiring English sources

His love life was as paralysed as his career.

That's the life of the disabled: you don't have to be as paralysed as Jean-Do, but if you don't move people think you're not there.

Only one thing seemed clear: "That I'm paralysed as a writer unless I write according to this queer dictatorial sense I have".

December 26 2000 On Boxing Day in Britain, all essential organs are paralysed, as if the spinal cord of the country has been hit by a curare dart.

The muscles in Omar's body were temporarily paralysed as barbed darts attached to electrical wires fired from the 50,000 volt weapon struck him in the chest.

Of course, it would be unfair to say that Saudi political institutions are paralysed, as they are in Lebanon – because Saudi Arabia, unlike Lebanon, doesn't have political institutions in any meaningful sense.

For Rob he sees his story as a message of hope to people who are paralysed and as for walking again: "I see it as a major possibility".

The standoff has paralysed Labour as a political force.

They found their boy sitting rigidly at the table in his bedroom, paralysed exactly as they had left him, holding his pen over a blank sheet of paper.

And big projects now attract 4.4 bidders on average, according to the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism, compared with only 1.3 when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was president.This should serve as an inspiration for India, where corruption scandals have paralysed the state machinery, as well as for China, where the government spends quickly, but badly.

One mismatched friend is bruised by life and paralysed by insecurity (Paul Giamatti, as wonderful here as in American Splendor); the other (Thomas Haden Church) is after a horny good time on a Californian trip.