Word: stuporously
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...goes, until Quiquendonians, unaccountably infected with this un quenchable need for activity, decide to declare war on a neighboring village for an offense committed 500 years earlier. The gasworks blows up just in time, and Quiquendone relapses harmlessly into its familiar stupor...
...tiny vessels around the eyes, and blood in the urine. After about a week, many of the victims turned as cold as a morgue slab before they died. Survivors presented a pitiable sight for weeks, with bleeding gums and persistent tremor, and often in a state of delirium or stupor...
...light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to body heat. His external sensations disappear, and as the hours go by he passes through six successive stages of sensory deprivation: irritation, melancholia, hallucination, panic, disorientation and stupor. When his assistants finally haul him out of the tank, Bogarde is more like a jellyfish than a human being, a mindless blob who will do anything anybody tells...
...King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave Frederick for the grandeur born two centuries later...
...romances (he fathered legitimate children by several queens and was responsible for numberless bastards; in addition, making no distinction between sexes, he carried on a lifelong affair with Pier della Vigna, the lowborn lawyer who may have invented the sonnet). The novel is not, like its subject, a stupor mundi, but it is a careful, craftsmanlike job, done with intelligence and conscience...