Sentences with phrase «almost numb»

So in the first parts of the film, it is very violent and I had her break the fourth wall so she's talking to us and you can see how she's disassociated herself from it and she's almost numb to it.

This is jolting, even for New Yorkers who have become almost numb from the line of lawmakers who have wound up behind bars in recent years.

I go from feeling anxious to indifferent and almost numb.

Yet a participant later observed that elevator and corridor conversation left these members of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature almost numb: «No, we just can not understand how Jonestown could happen...»

When I first launched [my business], I was almost numb to criticism from traditionally - minded capitalists who frankly thought I was insane for giving half of my work away.

Writing those four words, after all these years, still triggers almost numbing incredulity.

It's something — it almost numbs your body so you can't — your taste buds aren't even alive.

Here's the thing about London Edge: there's so many pretty things everywhere that the volume of them is almost numbing and you begin to act a bit like a greedy toddler hopped up on sugar in a vast toy store, leafing through the racks and mumbling «want, want, want» about practically all the lovely things, far more than you could ever conceivably buy.

Their simple, rather humbling effect, almost a numbing effect, became a sort of «control» against which my increasing tendency in the seventies to be extravagant could be measured» (W. Rubin, Frank Stella 1970 - 1987, New York 1987, p. 48).

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The news / noise flow is almost constant so it even raises the question as to at what point investors become numb to headline risk.

Indeed, the winner of the 2011 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Childrens Open (fittingly, a title that takes almost as long to say as it does for Na to hit a shot) explained his mind - numbing pre-shot routine as a reaction to the alterations his coach Dale Lynch has been helping him with since last year's Masters Tournament.

«We almost get numbed by it.

Some mind - numbing mistake will be made by one of the defenders and Bolton will snatch a few goals from almost nothing and Leeds won't be able to respond.

The numbing effect is almost instantaneous and (in my experience) the baby instantly sees life in a better light.

Ken Lovett: «Even for New York, which has almost become numb to the procession of public officials in recent years who left office in handcuffs or shame, having two top legislative leaders given substantial prison time a little more than a week apart is a new low.»

While a wind chill of almost -40 °C is considered balmy by residents at the station, my fingers grow numb soon after I take off my gloves to snap some pictures.

Because falling asleep is no problem, waking up at the end of the trip with a stiff neck, numb lower back, and searing headache almost always is.

It almost has a numbing effect, but in a weird way, I no longer wanted to eat a snack.

I have sleep issues, sweating at night, hi anxiety and feelings in body like almost burning sensation and hands tingling and going numb at times.

I also have some issues with my hands going numb at tines and tingling and weird body sensations like burning skin feeling almost and chest pressure.

It felt as though the headache was creeping up my upper back and nestling at the base of my skull almost like a slightly numbing feeling and a similar sensation at the top) closer to the front of my head).

There's something almost mind - numbing about it, in the same way I find coloring or doing a puzzle relaxing.

Director Kyle Henry, screenwriter Carlos Treviño and a wonderfully talented ensemble cast deliver a 21st century relationship time capsule of Rogers Park and some of the people who call it home — but this tightly scripted, dialogue - driven character study is also brimming with universal truths about the long - hidden but nevertheless permanent bruises of family tragedies, the changing and sometimes numbing nature of even a truly loving long - term relationship and the slow death of knowing one's dreams are almost certainly defunct.

Such is the luxurious length and mind - numbing detail of the cut - scenes and codec conversations that you could put the pad down for almost half the game's ample length.

A numb pedal after a good jet - wash you expect, but a couple of puddles can be enough to take almost all the power out of the otherwise extraordinary brakes, at least for a second or two.

The difference between the Cross Country and the S60 is almost imperceptible, but both cars share the same numb and overly assisted steering.

The steering is heavy and fairly direct, but almost completely numb — a familiar sensation to anyone who drove a pickup or SUV from the 1990s.

The steering is mostly numb, providing almost no feedback except for torque steer but has very little on - center vagueness.

And Stoner came to realize that she was, as she had said, almost happy with her despair; she would live her days out quitely, drinking a little more, year by year, numbing herself against the nothingness her life had become.

With the numbing chills of winter almost over and the warming breezes of spring just on the horizon, many families, especially children, are thinking and planning their ideal vacation.

Apart from the four player couch co-op there is nothing really new here but there is an almost mind numbing amount of content.

The latter's films and performances exchange Pasolini's almost ritualistic sacrality for a numbing bathos.

Yet, there is almost universal agreement that the first few years of BigLaw lawyering is occupied by incredibly long hours on the most mundane and mind - numbing of tasks.