One man was so paralysed with fear that he could not remember his pin number, so his attackers stamped on his arm until it broke.
After a while she becomes so paralysed by fear that she buries her head in the sand until charges and penalties bring the sum to £20,000.
Instead, it looks like a game so paralysed by anxiety that it is unable to make the distinction between being racist and talking about racism – and unwilling to pay anyone who is attentive to that difference.
Jones gave it his all: "I was so anxious, so paralysed with panic, that I did everything, total immersion and purdah for about two months beforehand, even down to simulating his handwriting.
Leaning back in his chair, twizzling a pen in his right hand, Breivik – flushed, but never losing control — told of how some of the children he killed were so paralysed with fear that he had time to reload his rifle before shooting them.
According to the biographer Richard Huggett, Gielgud was so paralysed by nerves that the prospect of going onstage as usual seemed impossible, but his fellow players, led by Sybil Thorndike, encouraged him: His career was safe, but the episode briefly affected Gielgud's health; he suffered a nervous breakdown some months afterwards.
For the first time it occurred to me that with the passing of years I might have tidied up the image that had so paralysed me when I first saw it in the Reichstag, and made it more neatly allegorical, geometrical, even: a triangle of morality.
The story of a disembodied hand which played the piano when not strangling the cast, it so paralysed me with fear that I couldn't get my eyes closed and was discovered to be in shock only after the performance, when I was found still sitting there by the cleaners, a Mintie melting slowly in my open mouth.
So far the Democratic Party has been so paralysed by its internal contradictions that it has wasted its years in opposition.
