Sentence examples for paralyzing effect from inspiring English sources

Eliot, Pound, Williams, and Stevens had had a paralyzing effect on the generation that came afterward.

The resulting narrative of inferiority has had a paralyzing effect on policy.

Her reticence suggests the depressing, paralyzing effect that the end of her marriage has had on her.

Deflation has a paralyzing effect on business activity because downward pressure on prices causes profits to be squeezed.

At the highest levels of Western governments, the failure of traditional approaches to counter the jihadist threat has had a paralyzing effect.

The nasty and divisive partisanship that has so defined our leadership in recent years has grown tedious and sophomoric and has a paralyzing effect.

Occasionally, contemporary art buyers can get nonplussed, with paralyzing effects.

The saying "analysis paralysis" is defined as "the state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome". We have all been there, where too many options make it impossible to choose.

Fear became the main story, and it had a paralyzing, obsessive effect, making it (paradoxically) harder and harder to empathize with Iraqis whose lives were becoming increasingly inaccessible.

The effect was paralyzing, narcotic.

There must be a relaxing of the veto powers given to minority groups by the interim constitution -- powers that could in effect paralyze Iraqi politics.