Sentence examples for paralyzed us from inspiring English sources

"There was never any thought of the consequences because I think if we had, it would have paralyzed us".

One memo spoke derisively of the generals in the Pentagon, and said, "Our prerequisite of perfection for 'actionable intelligence' has paralyzed us.

One paper noted, "The worst way to organize for the manhunt... is to have it planned in the Pentagon.... Our prerequisite of perfection for 'actionable intelligence' has paralyzed us".

So what is really being proposed here — as by The Times's editorial, as by most progressive commentators — is that the president ratchet up the rhetoric and escalate the very polarization that has already paralyzed us, and given the rest of the world reason to doubt our trustworthiness, our competence, if not our sanity.

We've become cynical, but it hasn't paralyzed us.

Our fear of their weapons has paralyzed us, thereby rendering us incapable of reaching out to them.

In the book I point out that fear is used to paralyze us.

"It paralyzes us from action".

Do our own existential fears paralyze us?

They paralyze us not with beauty but with choice.

Each episode truly was complicated, but, in retrospect, we let nuance paralyze us.