Sentences with phrase «numbed by»

Once you are able to feel the emotions — including the positive ones — that have been numbed by food, you can discover a renewed engagement with and enthusiasm for life.

In this information - explosion age, our visual sense is gradually becoming numbed by the constant barrage of new products, and we take for granted another of our primary senses, touch.

You may feel numbed by the shock of discovering your loved one suffered sexual abuse in a nursing home.

Some were thin, some were terrified and obviously unaccustomed to being handled, and many stared blankly, seemingly numbed by their surroundings and plight.

Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist.

Two weeks after finding his father dead with his head resting on a sand - colored book, Evan is still numbed by his loss when three things happen: He receives a puzzling phone call about the book.

DETROIT — For years, Detroit residents have grown sadly accustomed to — and emotionally numbed by — reports in the local media of teen - agers gunning each other down over matters as trivial as a refusal to hand over a fashionable item of clothing.

If you truly are thinking while on social media, and don't get caught up in and numbed by the experience, it will be extremely enjoyable.

«Not again,» he'd say if he hadn't been so utterly numbed by trauma.

He seems constantly numbed by the situation life places him in.

A gash of violence finally decides the lady's fate, but we're so numbed by that point by speeches that repeat the same points with different animal metaphors that the resolution carries little impact — as these two might say, like a sparrow thudding against a window.

As someone with genuine affection for the 1980s incarnation of the Chipmunks, I should be pretty disheartened by Chipwrecked, but I've been far too numbed by the first two films and the various dumb imitations (G - Force, The Smurfs, etc.) lobbed at the same demographic to be surprised or bothered by this chapter's failings.

Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.

Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain

My worst day as a mom: My worst days are usually ones when our eyeballs are glued to screens and our minds are numbed by overstimulation.

I've wanted to share with you the similarities and differences of the Elemental Joy and the bumGenius 5.0 cloth diapers for a few weeks, but my creativity has been numbed by the chaos of Christmas and the deep cold of this past winter.

«We almost get numbed by it.

The believer who accords these texts a privileged religious status is, therefore, no longer in a position to understand what they are really saying for, as Bloom puts it, «when script becomes Scripture, reading is numbed by taboo and inhibition.»

Her words puzzled me at the time but weeks or months later, numbed by lack of sleep and overwhelmed by being the whole world to this one little person, my maternal feelings retreated and I was left feeling confused and empty, with a mewling infant in my arms.

But if we read our culture through these theories with a myopic view to the global village master image of globalization, we also misapprehend the critical view that McLuhan proffered and we also ignore his wake up call to the masses that are numbed by their very globalizing technology.

The sensitive thinking man is probably aware of this, but he may be quite unaware that for vast numbers of people the capacity for awe, wonder and humility has been exhausted or numbed by the bewildering advance of modern knowledge.

Buffeted with anxieties about our own happiness and numbed by the comforts of postindustrial plenty, we think such a fate terrible.

Downtime puts us in touch with our passion instead of numbing ourselves by managing our inboxes, Facebook updates, TV or achievement - oriented productivity.

They suggest tracks such as Stayin» Alive by the Bee Gees, Smooth Operator by Sade («a must for all theatre mix - tapes»), Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, and Wake Me Up Before You Go - Go by Wham («best played in recovery»).

Containing laughably high levels of violence, sex and sadism that become near numbing by the final reel, Eaten Alive!

Sorry Morano, you can't assail viewers for 90 minutes and not expect them to be numb by the end to any ploy at pulling at heartstrings.

Well, I was numb by the end of my 5 - hour workout with Wildlands and that does not bode well.

That experience was so stressful and tense that I felt physically worn out and numb by the end.

My therapist says that I «check out» as a defense mechanism — that I numb myself by disassociating from the trauma.

Not exact matches

«We put it out first by not becoming numb to the fact that the truth is being assailed every day.

They rushed to the emergency room, where Holley was quickly seen by a doctor who applied anesthetic to numb her ear and kill the roach.

My reaction was that of numb disbelief followed by several months of deep sadness and grief.»

By doing so, you are able to copy only the best trades from the best of traders without having to spend numbing research hours to become an expert.

We try to numb the pain caused by suffering with relationships, work, food, alcohol, media and many other outlets.

How do we deal with the grief produced by suffering without simply numbing the pain?

It is mind numbing trickery coined by clever men centuries ago.

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

Rather than being mute and numb in response to the advent of a world in which the original name of God is no longer sayable, the Christian can live and speak by pronouncing the word of God's death, by joyously announcing the «good news» of the death of God, and by greeting the naked reality of our experience as the triumphant realization of the self - negation of God.

The pain and anguish we feel every day, the suffering of being separated from God that has so numbed our souls, the despair and fear that drives us to live as we do, was felt for the very first time by Jesus on the cross when sin came upon Him.

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

We are getting numb and dumb by the hour.

* psychic numbing as a diminished capacity for feeling death quilt felt by survivors death imprint as heightened vulnerability fascination with scenes of death a turning inward of anger in death / disaster renewal emerging from awareness of threats

Numbed and hardened by the barrage of media offerings before us, we now decide what we allow to touch us and with what versions of visual reality we will interact.

No need to rationalize or numb the emotional pain by disguising it as a «blessing» from «God» or the «Creator».

It is such conscious «choice» that Thomas seems to believe is the only effective Christian vocation — consciously taking hold with one's eyes the cast - out landscape that numbs through its repetition and unarticulated contours, and resting there with it until the spot of suffered color brushes by.

But here is the plot of the enemy of human souls, the Deceiver of this age: he has numbed the hearts and consciences of so many people of this generation, so that they have lost their abilities to experience this divine love and longing... And so, because they have lost this divine ability given to them by God, they scorn and ridicule those who have it, making themselves into to blind beggarly fools......

They become «atheists» through rejection of witness that's given to them in their consciences, by numbing theirs consciences and hardening their hearts to the point that they are dead!

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

they are the real victims, being robed of their innocence by the enemy of their souls who works through his willing vessels, is determined to desensitize and numb them, so that they have no chance to grow up as normal human beings.

Ultimately, resentment is directed against the cause of pain; and it arises when we become conscious of our painful condition, and attempt to numb our suffering by negating or evading all occasions for pain.