Word: numbing
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...Most young officers are filled with pride when they're commissioned, but I just felt numb," she said...
Fonda and Turner, who are recently married, took up the subject of the environment at the IOP. "We don't need to repeat the litany [of statistics] any more," Fonda said. "The problem is that we've gotten numb...
...believe this is fine cheese--it lingers on the palate with a crazy, tangy aftertaste. Just keep listening, sis, I promise you'll get it: play one side, then the other (they're identical), then turn it over again. Your brain will numb; soon you'll leave your old taste standards far behind and learn to dig this fluffy groove...
...dead, but perhaps a little numb, as the paper of record takes on a clothing store specializing in "bondage trousers," described as a lace-up crotch contraption for skinheads and dominatrices, or covers a smoke-filled party given by High Times, a magazine devoted to legalizing marijuana. The debut front-page piece, "The Arm Fetish," which analyzed "the body part as fashion accessory," was followed by others on "The Lipstick Wars" and health clubs (they're popular). Like an American abroad speaking slower and louder to be understood, the type is extra large and the sentences are extra short...
Most of them had been to court before. Like Beatrice, they were numb. It was all part of the life in the which they were trapped. But the student with the high-priced lawyer didn't see any of this. He didn't have to. He could just drive back to Lowell House, and forget about his brief encounter with the real world...