Word: stuporously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Resnick awoke, still in a stupor, he staggered next door and reported what had happened. The police were summoned and Resnick was taken to Stillman Infirmary...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
...grew older, as dizziness, deafness and amnesia successively set in, Swift lapsed into "incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...
...could doze in an atmosphere charged with that joie de vivre that must come with the new heterosexual order? Who could sink into a wall-eyed academic stupor when there is girl, rather than feet, in the breeze...