Sentences with phrase «like numb»

We start seeking temporary comfort through a series of destructive habits like numbing ourselves with Netflix, choosing a latte over a nap or indulging our appetites with sweets and alcohol.

Some are locally acting - like the numbing agents used by dentists - and some provide pain relief.

Start the level with a special power - up like NUMBING PAIN to triumph over your opponents.

Eron Rauch: EIGTBO ignites a tragicomic blaze from the tinder of art - damaged zines, Geocities - era web design, surreal cartoon animal violence, LiveJournal blogging, and the overly - chipper but bone - chilling drone of all those platitudes we are expected to partake in like a numbing sacrament.

blogging, and the overly - chipper but bone - chilling drone of all those platitudes we are expected to partake in like a numbing sacrament.

Not exact matches

Nothing tests your grit like mind - numbing details, especially when you're tired.

There's women who I'd bleed for, who look numb and empty and who are going through the brave motions because you've just got to do the next thing even when nothing feels like it's changing anything.

Like water from a fire hose, information overwhelms and numbs us.

Like the exiles in Babylon, we try to numb the spiritual pain by making life more comfortable.

It's talking like that which creates the numb nuts that do these crazy things.

until our slowing fingers numbed, stroking out his ancient stone with gentleness like fishes» fins, tinkering his resurrection»

for the atheist who will talk because of this, saying things like its not real and there is no evidence it is OK because you are spiritual dumb, deaf, blind, numb, and anosmic

And then it celebrates this ghosting, this nulling and numbing, as a glorious «dying to the self,» just like Jesus demanded.

I quickly grew numb to the «What's it like to grow up with pastors for parents» and «What are your parents really like at home» questions.

and that like an opiate it numbs one's concern for the rest of the world and all of its heartbreak.

A survivor's rage is also suppressed in psychic numbing «like wandering in a half world — a state of «death in life.»

Rather, it's that late - 60s - to - present Blue feeling, Comfortably Numb like Pink Floyd, Resigned like Blur, or worse with Radiohead, that at the very least lurks on the edges of this music, even at its most determinedly poppy.

Its flavor is similarly pepper - like and tangy, while leaving a lingering, numbing, fizzy sensation on the tongue.

Mountain pepper berries have an oily, mineral - like, turpentine aroma and when even minute grains of the ground fruits are tasted, an initial sweet, fruity flavor is quickly followed by an intense, biting, tongue - numbing and eye - watering heat that continues to build and will not subside for some minutes.

Way late on the commentary, but I would like to point out that originally I made this and it was terrible... Then I realized I had put in a ton of vanilla extract on top of the vanilla bean, so I was dizzy and my tongue was numb for a reason.

Ijust had som eco-Planet maple & Brown Sugar at work, The strangest thing happen on My sceond spoonfull I got a tingling & numb spots on my tounge It's was sort of surprising I think it was the flavoring like the cinnomon but it was weird,

According to Harold McGee in On Food and Cooking (second edition, page 429), they are not simply pungent; «they produce a strange tingling, buzzing, numbing sensation that is something like the effect of carbonated drinks or of a mild electrical current (touching the terminals of a nine - volt battery to the tongue).

I was hurting, the numbing burn of piperine, which is a crystalline alkaloid that tightens the tissues like wet rawhide.

My feet are numb and my eyeballs feel like Brillo pads.

The moment you realize you've now become completely numb to results like this at «HOME» at that too.

Come on old man, now you bragging on failure of the club like it is a good thing that it has made you numb to the relatively better failure than the one you have seen before.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

I wanted to make it all absolutely numb, like a piece of lumber.

Summer is nearly here, which means its time for America's major television networks to fire off the failed sitcoms for which they have no hope, and the low - effort, brain - numbing content that requires no effort — like rounding up «celebrities» and putting them in awkward situations.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Commercial lip balms for adults have many other additives, like menthol that can provide a numbing effect for sore lips, in them that are not meant for babies.

We seem to expect birth to be terrible and think we need to numb ourselves from it like a headache.

Then we disclose all of our crafting fails (like when I spent hundreds of dollars on a vinyl machine that sat in a drawer for a year and a half, doing nothing, because I didn't accept that I was terrible at crafts), and then we eat store - bought baked goods until we either forgive ourselves of our shortcomings or are numb to the pain of our shortcomings.

You'll feel like lashing out (fight), running away (flight), or numbing yourself with food or a screen (freeze).

Use a product like Completely Bare Not Feeling It, a cooling and numbing spray that helps ease the discomfort from epilating before and after treatment.

Smartphones are like pacifiers for adults — something to keep the mind busy or numb it.

Traumatic birthing experiences, like the use of drugs to induce labor and numb pain, internal electrode probes screwed onto baby's scalp, forceps, C - section, immediate cord clamping, suctioning, rough handling, bright lights, separation from mom and being left alone in a nursery incubator etc., can be hard - wired into a deep memory base that you, as a now functioning adult, can't even remember, let alone access!

10, A Hypnobirthing book — Unfortunately the image of my cervix opening like a flower was well and truly stamped on by the image of lovely pain numbing drugs coursing through my veins.

Routines will make us un-flexible, make our lives boring, creating a monotonous existence that will numb our minds and cause us to be a little like the stepford wives.

On the tablet example that I mentioned, instead of teaching kids to just play mind numbing games like Candy Crush, you could show them apps that teach them colors, letters, numbers, words, educational apps basically.

Then we disclose all of our crafting fails (like when I spent hundreds of dollars on a vinyl machine that sat in a drawer for a year and a half, doing nothing, because I didn't accept that I was terrible at crafts), and then we eat store - bought baked goods until we either forgive ourselves of our shortcomings or are numb to the...

I felt numb, like I was just going through the motions, thinking about all those woman I know who just LOVED breastfeeding and motherhood, realising that I was not one of them.

Frostbitten skin starts by feeling like it's burning, and then soon after goes numb.

For ultimate relief, freeze a maxi pad, line it with witch hazel pads, and spray some numbing spray like Dermoplast on it.

And stiff, numb fingers take the fun out of winter snow like nothing else.

Despite numbed taste buds, the beads tasted like sickly supercold sugary water.

After the emotional roller - coaster ride I had just taken through the American health care system, I was really feeling like I could use a bit of mind - numbing routine.

More specifically, we found that a protein called Numb functions like a traffic controller to direct proteins to the appropriate compartments.»

«Without it, it's like going to the dentist and having your mouth numbed.

It seems like this back - breaking, mind - numbing behavior will stop only when I have results for this project and I'm comfortable with the progress I've made (translation, when Jeff is comfortable, has enough data for his grant proposal, and leaves me alone).