Word: speechlessly
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...team emerged from surgery to the sound of applause all along the hospital corridor. Rogers approached Theresia Binder. "Which child would you like to see first?" he asked. She was speechless...
...first set ended rather quickly, just like I expected--but I was still a little bit surprised. And if I was surprised, she was virtually speechless. What could she say after destroying...
...Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors that struck Pasternak speechless. The author of five books of poetry, Conquest is no stranger to Stalinist atrocities, as witness his magisterial 1968 study, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. For Harvest he gathered a mass of scattered data, including testimony by survivors and participants, accounts by foreign witnesses and unpublished documents...
When the part-speech, part-group therapy session ended, I felt part of something special. Members of the self-selected and the Epps-selected crowd were speechless; they too felt part of something special. The maestro was surrounded by a newly-converted following, some of whom were presumably going to rush home to their own high holiday rituals, telling of their brush with greatness...
...started immediately, otherwise Congress would want to take the investigation over," continued Rogers, in his first public comments on his commission stewardship. He called a meeting of the group within hours, set the first hearings in a few days. Congress, which relishes such a spectacle, was for once almost speechless. Rogers' commission took the high public ground and never relinquished...