stupor

Example Sentences

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How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

At the camp, Ibrahim said, adults and children alike often wander around in a sort of stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

It’s a testament to Shannon’s direction that he fully commits to submerging us into Janice’s unimaginable emotional stupor, even when that gutsy approach ultimately proves to be the film’s undoing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Her own spiky guitar riff leads her out of her stupor, like an energetic dog barking its depressed owner out of bed.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

When I picked him up, he made no attempt to uncurl, but remained in that state much like a catatonic stupor.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes