Word: numb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...
...most notorious jails. The cells were so packed with political prisoners that some were held in the halls and bathrooms. I was placed in a tub of ice water. I don't know how long I was kept there, but when they dragged me out I was numb and almost senseless. My skin was frozen and felt like wood. "Let's warm him up," said an Islamic Guard. The two began whipping me with cables. At first I couldn't feel much pain, but then it got sharper and sharper. I was bleeding all over. I passed...
...vacillate, however, for my turn in line had come. I slumped into a deep bucket seat, pulled the thick harness over my head, and pressed it to my chest so hard that I could barely breathe. I don't remember the ride, but I left it a bit numb...
...Numb, yes. Diverted, no. Having been turned upside down four times already, I decided that twice more couldn't hurt. I headed for the "Tidal Wave"--and got a terrifying lesson in the wonders of centrifugal force. Somehow--the red marks on my palms where I had clutched the safety bar gave me a clue--I managed to survive this assault on my sense of spatial order, and I even enjoyed...
...along with rape victims, among others) achieved some psychiatric status when DSM-III in 1980 officially defined their suffering as "posttraumatic stress disorder." In such distress, a person develops vivid symptoms after a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the range of usual human experience: he or she grows numb toward the external world, or else hyperalert, jumpy, insomniac; in nightmares the event that brought on the trauma is obsessively replayed...