Sentence examples for proved paralyzing from inspiring English sources

Freedom sometimes proved paralyzing.

The realization, grasped only gradually as details of the catastrophe emerged, proved paralyzing, energizing and confounding all at once.

Ms. Faieta said that the search for a perfect approach — taking into account, say, environmental concerns and land ownership issues — had proved "paralyzing" but added that the contractors had a different vantage point.

The idea that an ordinary, anonymous person can have a big impact on world events is an attractively democratic notion — one systematically undermined by the rest of the movie, which loads Robin with trappings of heroism that prove paralyzing to the narrative.

If the East has been economically absorbed, its political legacy, in the form of the Left party, has proved inhibiting, even paralyzing.

This has proved all but paralyzing for the U.S. EPA.

But the limitation on the use of force may also prove a paralyzing one, undercutting the long-term success of the application of American firepower.

It has proved to be a paralyzing, polarizing responsibility.

The Italian director's satire of the Roman Catholic Church proved too gentle, but Michel Piccoli's humane performance as the newly elected pope paralyzed by fear was worth watching.

Ms. Schmidt talks a great deal about her community, one that proved its devotion when she was sick a few years ago with a rare neurological syndrome that left her temporarily paralyzed.

DARYL SUE SHAPIRO New York 'Cruel and Stupid' Treatment To the Sports Editor: Re "Swimmer Is Fighting a Ruling: She Is Not Disabled Enough," Sept. 27: The International Paralympic Committee's decision to keep Victoria Arlen out of the Games because she cannot prove her legs are permanently paralyzed is cruel and stupid.