catatonic

Example Sentences

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“I became almost catatonic in the Philippines. I could think of no reason to do anything.”

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“They’re talking with families who are in shock, who are infuriated, who at times are catatonic because of their loss,” Dr. Blosnich said.

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Shiv — who has to be retrieved from the party one deck below — is practically catatonic when she finds out why she has been summoned.

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The obvious and most common way to play “emotionally shut down” as to act catatonic.

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He plays Mr. Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.

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