Word: numb
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...Around my wrists where the handcuffs had cut into my flesh, blood and pus continue to ooze out of the wounds. My nails were purple and felt as if they were going to fall off. I touched the back of each hand, only to find the skin and flesh numb. I tried to curl up my fingers but could not because they were the size of carrots. I prayed to God to help me recover the use of my hands. After a while, I tried to get up. But I had to stifle a cry of pain, for my feet...
...feel numb. And I know you wouldn't approve of that. All your life you have struggled to encourage both Turks and Armenians to shake off the mutual numbness in their hearts so that they can start feeling each other's emotions and hearing each other's words...
Suppose Steve Pinker contracts a terrible progressive brain disease that destroys his nervous system from the outside in--he starts going numb and then deaf and blind and unable to control his muscles. But then neuroscience comes to the rescue, replacing each portion of his nervous system as it disintegrates with a suitably interfaced prosthesis made of silicon and wire...
...Grind,” I dissolved into Beck’s baby-blue eyes. It felt as if, in the middle of the MTV studios, at the heart of New York City, with three cameras and countless PR agents looking on, Beck and I became one. My fingertips were numb with ecstasy...
Still, most of the young alums appeared to have arrived at roughly the same idea of what it would take to numb the cold...