Word: numbingly
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...mind is numb from eavesdropping on some of the most inane conversations since the development of oral communication. "Party?" one student said to another. "Dude!" the other one replied...
...photography had vitiated itself through overproduction. Continuous wire-service transmission and the conservatism of the postwar picture press had covered the world with images leached of their expressiveness and meaning. As Smith put it, "we are deluged with photography at its worst -- until the drone of superficiality threatens to numb our sensitivity to image...
...while the country is numb, the families and friends the dead leave behind are surely not. At any one time, the nation harbors a large tribe of those crying and struggling with the loss a gun has caused...
...masochistic middle-aged climber stands panting into the gaping dark, wondering what in God's name he is doing here. He is 17,000 ft. up, with 1,650 ft. still to go to the top. The temperature is unreasonably far below zero, hands and feet are numb, and the air is so thin that a few tentative steps leave the body screaming for relief. Perhaps this is how Hans Meyer felt when, 100 years ago, the German geologist became the first to ascend to the rarefied heights of Mount Kilimanjaro, an immense dormant volcano 49 miles long...
...tendency to care, to offer assistance, to depend on others, to respect the dignity of others, to be kind, and to give of ourselves. And yet, as a society, we collectively emphasize the suppression of these impulses which have always been within us. Until, sadly enough, we either become numb to our own humanity and to the reality around us; or we refuse to acknowledge the need to continually reexamine ourselves in order to improve from within. Each of us has the choice to stop, reflect, and look within. And yet, we seem to throw this most precious choice away...