Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they might be reciting a grocery list. (He also directed, but didn't write, the Renée Zellweger comedy Nurse Betty...
...first, as fast-moving historical epics with little of the care for individual characters that the mature Shakespeare later lavished on the prequels, the effect is of a harrowing bleeding away of compassion. As the civil wars spiral out of control, sympathy for solitary victims gives way to a numb horror at the mounting carnage. Which, for anyone doubting the modern-day relevance of these works, is not so far from the reactions of television viewers barraged by blanket media coverage of atrocities in Bosnia or Rwanda...
...feel very numb," Mahler said. "I never thought this day would come. It's weird--almost anticlimatic after so many months of build...
...there," wailed one woman. "I know he's still alive." But her hope dimmed every time firemen and volunteers extracted another tiny corpse from the site. Throughout the night, firemen could hear voices coming from within the mountainous rubble, but by morning there was only a numb, funereal silence. Elsewhere in Gujarat, 400 school children were buried alive while marching in a Republic Day parade...
...listened to the radio this week, you heard that Al Gore is "a proven liar, a pathological prevaricator." Democrats arguing Gore's case are "mind-numb morons," "vicious political hacks" and "just a bunch of sleaze-bag crooks." Don't believe a word spoken by Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley: "All he does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed...