Numbed

Jan. 8th, 2010 04: 06 pm (UTC) "The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out ..." ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out -- although that may have been because I found the music bland -- except for those based most directly on actual ragtime, which were much fresher than the over-wrought ballads and anthems of the rest. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

But Benedict issued a warning to Internet users late last week, cautioning that the Web has "numbed" young people and created an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence." ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That confession was really unsettling for a while, now I'm just kind of numbed by it all. ❋ Madrigle (2005)

That day, the chronicles tell us, he wore a kind of numbed look, but he also smiled. ❋ Michener, James (1992)

Cally had stood listening with a kind of numbed listlessness, ready to go at the first opportunity, now that the real purpose of the interview was discharged. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

And picking up her dainty skirt with one ungloved hand, on which two diamond rings shone like circlets of dew, she nodded, smiled, and went her way -- Innocent standing at the gate and watching her go with a kind of numbed patience as though she saw a figure in a dream vanishing slowly with the dawn of day. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

"There's just so much that needs to be changed, that people have kind of numbed themselves," ❋ Unknown (2010)

Country music star Kenny Chesney was "numbed" when he visited his Nashville, Tennessee home on Wednesday because he says he was so shocked at the devastation the recent floods have caused. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet in everyday life, the president said, people become "numbed" by the slow pace of daily crises such as poverty. ❋ [email protected] (By Mark Silva / (2010)