benumbed

Example Sentences

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Its importance may have been underestimated by a benumbed Supreme Court press, understandably focused on what is likely to be the Court’s decision.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2022

As friends and neighbors watch in silent awe, confused, benumbed, the father lowers the launcher and stage-growls the absolutely unnecessary: “It’s a boy.”

From Washington Post • May 13, 2021

The author trots out secondary characters and walk-ons who, along with the benumbed Jovan, play like a Chandleresque lineup of suspects: nurses, psychologists, fellow janitors, the married dentist Jovan is canoodling with.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

"River of Fundament" was inspired by "Ancient Evenings," Norman Mailer's sprawlingly bad 1983 novel — 709 pages of benumbed egocentrism set in pharaonic Egypt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015

As, with benumbed legs, he slowly left the still sleeping town at daybreak, a crouching shadow emerged from the last hut and joined the pilgrim.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse