A numbing of his brain, an understanding that could not be put into words.

A familiar numbing of his fingers, arms, and legs.

The most widespread is the numbing of the human brain in the name of business.

A numbing of their emotions keeps them from being close to others, even their own children.

It was a relief, too, to experience any emotion after the numbing of Jennan's death.

A sense of detachment was creeping over him, a numbing of emotions.

Their action, however, is merely a numbing of the malfunctioning parts, and is by no means permanent.

"We have seen a numbing of that nerve," said Scott Taylor, a military journalist.

But the more pertinent issue has become the numbing of America, with films that provide only tenuous points of emotional contact.

I had been through it a hundred times and I could almost feel the grinding pressure on the wrist, the helpless numbing of the fingers.

A subtle numbing of her throbbing head.

The hero's subsequent inability to act emerged as a problem of freezing up, a numbing of his senses.

This is why the numbing of the lower jaw during dental procedures causes patients to lose sensation in:

In fact, her condition was worse than that; the shock was wearing off and with it the protective numbing of her brain.

The flaming mask was enormous, its mind-light numbing.

Here there is none of the numbing of awareness characteristic of plain selfishness.

Individualist psychic numbing is found in victims of rape and people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Can the words "soft money" pass his lips without inviting the mass numbing of his audience at the issue of campaign finances.

And while William Bennett may protest our lack of outrage, he has contributed to our moral numbing.

Lauren Howard, a Manhattan psychotherapist, finds that the opposite of an emotional numbing has occurred since 9/11.

Only this time it was different, a kind of numbing of his brain, a slowing down of his movements.

It does not produce any significant numbing of the mouth nor does it give a rush like snorting cocaine.

He was hungry and thirsty by that time; with the numbing of his mind he craved even the small activity of eating.

He didn't answer, but she read his willful numbing of emotion-not a shielding, but careful affective control.

But in music, familiarity does not breed contempt but something equally dangerous: a numbing of the senses, a blindness to detail.

Not even the numbing experience of learning about his real father.

He makes sense even of that numbing subject, nuclear weapons.

Many, overcome by the numbing cold, simply gave up and went home.

The cold wind and rain were having a numbing effect.

I have given him a numbing agent for the pain.

In fact, it can be hard to watch for that reason, and it's a rather numbing experience.

Now they were moving through the numbing weight of acceptance.

For a few numbing seconds, he was completely at a loss.

The numbing cold seemed to erase all sense of time.

Over two numbing hours later, you may find yourself wondering exactly whose children he has in mind.

So what happened to her on the afternoon of May 28th came as a numbing shock.

That agreement set the stage for a numbing $1.6 billion television contract.

The list was quite numbing, and he could only imagine what Duke would have to say about the situation.

All he wanted was the numbing effect of the booze.

Standing's death had a numbing effect on the rescue operation.

To take his mind off the numbing thought of paralysis, he began to look around him.

On the domestic side, the Bush approach to the budget is the prime example, and a numbing one.

But that was before the numbing impact of television, the Internet and 24-hour election coverage.

Moving in, he caught the man's arm with a numbing chop.

His dominance seems to have had a numbing effect on voters.

Then the numbing pain came, weak at first, but growing stronger.

He came up against a rock, with a numbing thud.

The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours.

There was no explanation for it, only the numbing facts.

After today's numbing loss, the latter scenario seemed to be the more likely one.

But I was really numb for a lot of weeks, which is good.

The only thing I want to feel right now is numb.

His mind still felt numb, but something was clear to him.

The early part of the day was a numb time.

They would still get numb again once in a while.

One side of her face and body had gone numb.

But his hands and feet were too numb to feel anything.

She was quite numb and did not think of anything.

By now I was numb and trying to make myself more so.

I felt numb just thinking about what could have happened.

Within minutes she was numb, and the road seemed to go on for hours.

He still felt numb all over and as if she was much too close to him.

Nothing more happened for several days, and she got used to having numb feet.

Others, however, just go numb when they hear bad news.

She felt as if her entire body had gone numb.

I heard it, but my hand was too numb to feel anything.

He'd felt numb since that call a few days ago.

Then his mind was numb, as well, and he felt nothing.

You become numb to this kind of thing after a while.

The right side was numb and set lower than the left.

She sat numb for nearly half an hour, saying nothing.

It would be dark soon, and her feet were numb.

Perhaps the few who had found out about it were still a little numb.

I was feeling pretty numb, but felt as if my body needed to move.

After an hour, it was hard to be anything but numb.

He had numbed me, and all the rest of us.

Her mind, numbed by fear, could think of nothing else to say.

It's the hour and a half in between that numbs.

Now that he was standing still, the cold numbed his body.

Numbed by the news, I went to sit in the family waiting area.

The pain is still there, but time has numbed it.

He was numbed by the shock of what had happened.

The cold and the news together numbed him to all but what lay ahead.

But first his eyes had to be numbed with medication.

Dread of the coming night numbed her to all other problems.

He seemed to be shocked and numbed, but then we all were.

He tried to keep his voice firm, but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him.

Although she worried about his safety, her mind was numbed to all thought.

My belly and head seemed to have been numbed, gone quite beyond feeling.

The numbers add up so fast that it numbs the mind.

"Perhaps numbing out is not such an abnormal thing, particularly if you have to go to work each day."

The worst was the cold, which numbed the body and brain.

The cold had numbed his mind; now he was recovering.

Numbing her senses to the task at hand, she began working.

The music numbs us into a kind of trance state.

During the weeks of the trial, I felt nothing: my feelings were numbed.

"Bill's a good guy, but too many years in the military have numbed his mind.

Part of me was numbing out like a combat veteran.

I might long to Skill, but right now my mind was numbed to that ability.

At first I felt nothing; the shock of what was happening numbed me.