Word: numb
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...hand, it showcases the actors’ commendable talents in intensely complicated and poignant roles. But on the other, it has a desensitizing effect. I was so numb by the third act that I couldn’t even appreciate the final blow, which ought to be the most striking: when George reveals Martha’s final secret. I wanted to be blown out of my seat, but was too emotionally drained to respond beyond...
...conference in 2006. "The writers came back to our room, and they couldn't even talk." And just like that, the movie about the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae with no stars and unusual stylized visuals became the talk of the convention. Six months later, it premiered at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, an Austin, Texas, film festival curated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News (AICN). Most mainstream media critics trounced it, but 60% of the males who bought tickets on opening weekend said they were drawn by seeing references to the movie on the Web, where readers...
...Much like the 1999 Columbine shootings that occurred in the familiar hallways, cafeteria, and library of a community high school, the massacre at Tech took place in a place of enlightenment, tolerance, and learning, a place that is supposed to be safe. As a society, we have become numb to murder on the battlefield or on anonymous city streets, but when a college campus is the scene such carnage at the hands of one of its own members, it is all the more shocking, somehow more real. As students, we are inundated with the wise words of professors and parents...
Shawn Haviland didn’t let the cold numb his right arm or numb him to the significance of Saturday’s win over Princeton. It was a rivalry game against Harvard’s decade-long nemesis in the battle for Ivy League supremacy and against the squad that ended the Crimson’s NCAA aspirations with an Ivy Championship Series sweep last May. It was the junior right-hander’s first victory of the season, his first in over 11 months. And it came over Tigers ace Christian Staehely, who was named...
...remember the countless afternoons spent in the backyard playing out that defining moment. The moment when the spotlight shines solely on you. That singular instance where you realize that you, after the many hours of work and dedication, finally made it. And now, as your mouth is too numb to speak and the joy sets upon you, your index finger, raised high into the air, expresses all that needs to be said...“We’re number...