Numbly

As I walked numbly through the funeral procession, I found myself thinking of David and how strange it was our fates had suddenly taken such parallel paths. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We were making our own meals by age 8, letting ourselves into empty homes after school, numbly watching program-length commercials on TV, and trying to get to sleep while they "entertained" their male--and/or female--friends in the living room. ❋ Susan Gregory Thomas (2011)

As he sees it, Western Civilization is numbly shedding its Christian heritage and someone ought to remind us of the baby that is being tossed out with the presumably now-useless bath water. ❋ Matt J. Rossano (2011)

As Timkin tied the sock with a simple knot, Stearns felt a wet warmth spreading through his crotch and down his thighs and realized numbly that he was pissing himself. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

I lay for a full minute, numbly expectant, but there occurred no reeling of walls nor shock and grind of falling masonry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I sipped at my champagne numbly, trying to focus on something else. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Neither “spiteful nor kind, rascal nor honest man, hero nor insect,” Bachmann stoically sinks into depravity, abdicating responsibility for his actions, numbly stumbling around, Lear-like, encountering and succumbing to the wishes of evil, indecent characters, willing to do anything to fill the void. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here in the Northwest, where so much of our life is linked with water, where the Asian influence is keenly felt -- where we await the tsunami from Japan to hit our own West Coast -- we have a chance to not just react or stare numbly at the CNN screen, but to contemplate this Tao or Water Way. ❋ Brenda Peterson (2011)

Logan stood there numbly as his queen stepped up next to him. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Even as she numbly curled up beside him, in her mind she was still shrieking, still hungering to slaughter the thing that had done this. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

My arms folded around my shoulders, my mouth sucking numbly at the wound on my wrist. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Michael sprang away again, and was numbly aware of an ancient joy as he shouldered Jerry who shouldered against him as they ran side by side. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My hand traced down my breastbone, as I numbly pulled back the sheets, noted the stiff bandages around my abdomen. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Snaff reached numbly to the golden laurel that encircled his head and drew it off. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)