I gave my consent to film, and she numbed me.
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SOME readers of The Economist may be numbed by statistics.
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Stuck in that crouch, Labissiere's faith numbed with his legs.
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But I'm a little numbed to the perfect these days.
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"Drugs and alcohol just sort of numbed everything," she shared.
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As numbed as you may be, there's a very specific sound.
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In a world numbed by senseless violence, the killing still shocked.
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You won't enjoy it; you'll just use it to get totally numbed.
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The doctor then numbed Prater's eye and extracted the tick using tweezers.
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While the alcohol numbed her anxiety, it also blurred the good moments.
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The area was numbed first, so I really didn't feel the injection.
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Or because, when numbed to the risks, it just seems more convenient.
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I had lost the one thing that could have numbed my pain.
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Enthused and euphoric, her rise, meteoric,Her heart all atingle — then numbed.
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To remove the lipomas, Lee numbed the area around each one individually.
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In this shadowy landscape, Katherine's numbed grief is indistinguishable from a high.
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"We've gotten so numbed by it all," Ryan reportedly mused about Trump's behavior.
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The doctor numbed Prater's eye and then used tweezers to remove the tick.
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"I numbed myself in those years, thinking I was fooling everybody," he said.
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According to Semaan, media coverage of the refugee crisis has only numbed Westerners.
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Doctors typically numbed her with medications and consigned her to a guarded room.
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And in America, we risk becoming numbed to a political, social and moral breakdown.
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"We've become to some degree numbed to this, saying, 'That's just Trump,'" he said.
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Consumers go about their lives, numbed by the frequency and the lack of consequences.
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Giancarlo De Lellis, a home improvement contractor with jobs in Manhattan, has numbed himself.
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Doctors tried different injections, which numbed the pain but didn't remove the problem completely.
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Next, Lee numbed the growth with an injection, then she sliced it in half.
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You know, the one, just the one that justified and necessitated being numbed by medication.
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Or, they hear about it so often they have been numbed by familiarity and generalizations.
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The White House, again, was numbed by the statements, having no comment on the matter.
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But there was a catch: They also were measurably numbed to intrusive or brusque touches.
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I threw myself into childcare and it numbed me to everything else in my life.
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I quickly found that obsessive research, like drinking or drugs, numbed my political anger and depression.
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There doctors numbed Lily's ear and struggled to remove the earring piece from under her skin.
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Moot your hot-blooded support, sputtering antagonism, or news-numbed apathy to whatever any politician says.
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There's an argument that coarsened culture requires even more gruesome photographs to rouse our numbed humanity.
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A crowd of us, both locals and tourists, watched in a numbed silence as houses exploded.
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"I numbed my pain for so many years," Kuter told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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Some people definitely want to feel emotionally numbed, but I wasn't cut out for that life.
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Counting calories and restricting her food gave Begnell a sense of control and numbed her emotional pain.
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Even though he's numbed, the patient has a tough time not tensing up — and so do we.
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She repeatedly feinted Jędrzejczyk out of position and numbed her wits to the real attacks that followed.
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Clark was sketching out something more immersive, drawing us into the numbed space that her characters occupy.
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Tilden has the numbed and tentative mien of someone who was scared out of his wits long ago.
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I was awake during the entire thing; I think they numbed the skin, but I can't really remember.
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Decades after it un-numbed my teen comfort, "The Wall" feels as emotionally devastating and relevant as ever.
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Sometimes, I wonder how much I've internalized my even-keeled outward demeanor and numbed myself from authentic feeling.
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Watch More from VICE: Kat: I can talk about it now without being completely numbed out and dissociated.
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They are not to be wasted or numbed out or squashed, but channeled and harnessed and used for good.
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"We are bereft and numbed by what has happened," her friend Jade wrote for the Italian newspaper The Florentine.
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This month has been a harrowing month, even for those numbed by the steady drumbeat of violence in America.
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After doctors numbed the most sensitive area, Salo played in the following game, in which the Canucks were eliminated.
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He spent the next day at the doctor, his hands numbed and bitten by the frigid winds off Jamaica Bay.
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While in prison, Romy loses contact with her son and becomes numbed by the difficulties and mundanities of institutional life.
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Before Prater could wrap his head around it, the doctor numbed his eye and plucked the pest out with tweezers.
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"I was just shocked and honestly just confused the way it all turned so negative just numbed me," she says.
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"I was just shocked and honestly just confused…the way it all turned so negative just numbed me," O'Neill describes.
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But some images strike a particular nerve, for reasons both obvious and unknowable, jarring even a public numbed to disaster.
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For better or worse, Halep said, she could not feel her ankle, which was tightly taped and numbed by painkillers.
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I liked getting high for all the usual reasons—it distracted and numbed me, and also because drugs are fun.
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They numbed a country witnessing mass carnage in Vietnam, a grueling fight for civil rights, political assassinations, and a sexual awakening.
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For the next week, she'll be surrounded by orderlies and other patients, either numbed out on drug cocktails or violently unstable.
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First Berry numbed my eyebrows for about thirty minutes before tracing over them with a pencil to get my desired shape.
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I kind of numbed myself that way and reached for food for sadness, stress, depression, anxiety, happiness; I celebrated with food.
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Even as van Gaal hugged the cup on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, the United supporters were numbed by the Dutchman's approach.
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He sensed that his friend's desires, which had once been silent but powerful, were now also numbed: no words, no feelings.
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"Ballyturk" is so verbally dense that it's possible to be hypnotized, if not numbed, by some of its lush spoken arias.
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The play begins with a description of Sheffield on fire, immediately after the bombing, as seen by a numbed, disoriented Arthur.
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That doctor, New York surgeon F. E. Hopkins, numbed the patient with cocaine and tried to dislodge the bone with a hook.
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"He looked pretty calm, probably because he had had too much to drink and was numbed by the alcohol," Dr. Xiong said.
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When PTSD patients attempt to revisit their trauma in therapy, they might be flooded with horrible emotions, or become deeply numbed emotionally.
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Some suggest that the suffering Mao experienced early in his life may have numbed his senses to the destruction he later unleashed.
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Let's not let ourselves be numbed by the daily drip into accepting a level of Trumpian dysfunction that should always be unacceptable.
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Our curiosity has been numbed, even as our political imagination has been frazzled by the endless conspiracy theories that such organizations push.
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Her psychiatrist warned that she'd never be able to stop the drugs, but after a decade of feeling numbed, she'd had enough.
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You may even find yourself missing the drug-numbed party kids conjured three decades ago by Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney.
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The fathers always seemed stoic, either numbed by the pain or resigned to the way young black male life was so easily lost.
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Mild heartburn, minor fatigue, a mouth numbed by the dentist each led my body to react as if something was very, very wrong.
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Rescuers continued to scramble over the twisted wreck of the building as numbed family members stood around, waiting for news of missing relatives.
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Benjamin Walker gives a disciplined performance in the title role of a killer numbed beyond feeling; you may identify with him (2:30).
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Benjamin Walker gives a disciplined performance in the title role of a killer numbed beyond feeling; you may identify with him (2:5993).
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Benjamin Walker gives a disciplined performance in the title role of a killer numbed beyond feeling; you may identify with him (1953:30).
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Benjamin Walker gives a disciplined performance in the title role of a killer numbed beyond feeling; you may identify with him (13:30).
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Mr. Robot Tonight, after over a season of portraying a character with bug-eyed, lock-jawed, pharmaceutical-numbed restraint, Rami Malek cut loose.
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Rescuers continued to scramble over the twisted wreckage of the building as numbed family members stood around, waiting for news of missing relatives.
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As Sadie, Caroline Arrouas is captivatingly restrained, moving as if in a daze, too numbed by life to listen to her own desires.
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But the problem with thrilling an audience with one physical stunt after another is that it can become numbed to the emotional horror.
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The singer was diagnosed shortly after having neck surgery, which he said "screwed all my nerves" and numbed different parts of his body.
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And when it comes to something as monumental as the Holocaust, one's mind cannot help but be numbed by the sheer magnitude of it.
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The pacing immerses you in the feelings of grief: that numbed dread, punctured every now and again by a jarring shock of debilitating panic.
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Particularly after the brazen grift attempts so lazily hidden by Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke, few headlines are likely to surprise a numbed public.
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Servers at both addresses have the brisk, well-drilled, impersonal and slightly numbed quality that comes of waiting on hundreds of people a day.
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We met up that evening at a bar I frequented downtown and had some nonsensical talk as we numbed ourselves with numerous alcoholic beverages.
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All the vilification has actually numbed people's reaction to the truly shocking possibility that Mr. Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
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True, the monster television that Chayefsky condemned, in which minds were numbed and massaged through a central household set, looks kind of puny these days.
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But the pure evil that Savitha and Poornima face is so shocking and so unbelievably constant that the reader ends up numbed to the horror.
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I find it both energizing and enervating, and best engaged with in chunks so I can experience it and not become numbed by its force.
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But more and more, it occurs to me that maybe these emotional sensations are not there to be overcome, eliminated, or numbed out, but appreciated.
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After years of seeing the dark side of pet rescue, numbed by the memory of the animals she couldn't save, Cathy King was ready to retire.
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These dramatic stories of individuals or photographs give us a window of opportunity where we're suddenly awake and not numbed, and we want to do something.
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Those seven days of fresh grief drove me to eat and drink in a numbed stupor that would ebb but eventually, increasingly, flow for months after.
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Masood was born Adrian Russell Ajao and on Monday his mother Janet Ajao issued a statement saying she was "shocked, saddened and numbed" by his actions.
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Fortunately, the lumps are notTo treat the lipoma, Dr. Lee first numbed the area with a local anesthetic, then punctured the lipoma with a sharp surgical tool.
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Her numbed answer, about her awareness of her body and the reactions it elicits, is imbued with a haunting air of depletion, and of defiance by surrender.
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" Campinas Mayor Jonas Donizette declared three days of mourning in the city and tweeted, "I am numbed by the brutal crime that occurred at the Campinas Cathedral.
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Her passion and sanity and knowledge of that land make me want to stay awake and not get numbed by the waterfall of public callousness and greed.
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Still, with only the subtlest modulations of his voice, this actor holds his own, finding a tone that suggests the grain of pain in its numbed detachment.
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Permanently stunned by a cruel divorce and daily numbed by booze, Rachel (Emily Blunt) spends her days riding the train up the Hudson River past her old home.
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His face numbed for skin-cancer surgery, Mr. Dalman, 69, sat surrounded by a half-dozen other patients with bandages on their faces, scalps, necks, arms and legs.
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"These dramatic stories of individuals or photographs give us a window of opportunity where we're suddenly awake and not numbed, and we want to do something," Slovic says.
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"The scariest thing isn't the smog, it's how we've become numbed and used to it," said one comment about the pictures on a Chinese news website, 163.com.
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When capturing the clip, Garner tried her best to spit out several tongue twisters — but she could barely move her mouth because it was numbed during the procedure.
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Donald Trump's presence in the White House has, to an extent, numbed us to the idea of people holding prominent positions in public life who constantly speak nonsense.
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Turkey attack Even in a country numbed by terror attacks, this was particularly horrific: a suicide bombing at a wedding -- apparently carried out by someone who wasn't even 15!
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The rim of Donna's pelvic bone was numbed with a pulse of anesthetic, and I drove the needle, as gently as I could, into the outer furl of bone.
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Twenty-five tense minutes elapse before the cream has numbed me completely, allowing Mesa to begin administering the shots from ten or so syringes lined up on a table.
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Botox takes several days to work, so I leave his office with my bollocks numbed, slightly bruised, but in the same location as they were when I went in.
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And it triumphs, time and again, for it causes heroes to throw up their hands and simply wander off mid-battle, numbed by the apparent futility of it all.
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In recent years, Syria has experienced the most frequent use of chemical weapons anywhere globally in generations, raising fears that the world could become numbed to once-unthinkable atrocities.
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Four are about to lift her bier — you can sense from their postures that they are anticipating its weight — while others whisper among themselves or stare in numbed sorrow.
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It was important not to be numbed by the disasters, he said — to recall each victim as a real person, and honor the meaning and context of their lives.
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No advertiser has any incentive to cut back, so advertising in toto overwhelms us to the point that we are, on some deep level, numbed and disgusted by it all.
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I went to several doctors who were unable to help me, and most days, I tried drinking alcohol simply because it numbed the pain and helped put me to sleep.
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It has taken a long time, but after many evenings of numbed clicking I must accept that I have run through all of Netflix's programming that is up my alley.
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As he sits or lies at the side of the stage, the others dancing at the center seem to be people he's recalling, in numbed pain, at his life's end.
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Desperate to find some way to reconnect with the emotionally numbed girl, the woman begins brushing her daughter's long black hair, only to discover it now has strands of white.
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On one hand, it's possible that Thrones' consistently ruthless nature over the past seven seasons has numbed viewers to loss, even when numerous major blows occur in a single episode.
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Navajo Nation residents, numbed to silence by a gang that raised its profile on social media and threatened people to keep them from talking to police, are encouraged but still wary.
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No. Stop me from staring at a bright screen a few feet away from my face first thing in the morning and last thing at night until I'm numbed to reality?
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And although I acquired the house for the dry basement, it is not heated and for five months I am chased out by numbed fingers; Still, this is my sanctum sanctorum.
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Fame and Fortune," and the new tales rub shoulders with well-loved classics like the sex-numbed dystopia of "Welcome to the Monkey House" and the artificial intelligence-driven dystopia "EPICAC.
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Instead, we just over-share until everyone is completely numbed or in such a state of rage, despair, and hopelessness that social media literally makes people physically, mentally, and spiritually sick.
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I remember especially how Justin Hyacinth, while bending backward, circles his index finger near his head — as if turning a mime's gesture for thought into one for a slow, numbed question.
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In the video, Garner tries her best to spit out several tongue twisters — but she can barely move her mouth because it was numbed during the the procedure she had done.
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Through it all, Portman is tough, pained and emotionally numbed, desperate for answers but also seeking redemption for reasons that finally become clearer, frankly, than almost anything else in the movie.
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People get numbed by the process and seal off their hearts, but you can only find love (or a diamond, or an essay) if you're open — every time — to finding it.
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Just when it seemed as if the writers had fully numbed their audience to the impact of killing off a character, they remembered how to do so with the appropriate gravity.
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Debauched tales of partying and drug abuse exist ("Fuck Our Problems"), but Natia better conveys the inherent humanity of those endeavors, enunciating and emoting where others might mumble themselves into numbed incoherence.
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After years of regaining a more peaceable city, street by street and park by park, many New Yorkers have rediscovered the ability to be shocked by crime instead of numbed by it.
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Her aim is to bring a measure of hope to places devastated by an extraordinary week of mass shootings in a country numbed by a steady beat of news about gun violence.
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Dinesh is numbed by the camp's terrors: the "faraway whispering" that precedes falling shells; the brief silence before the cries of the injured and the bereaved; gruesome scenes at a makeshift hospital.
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In a darkened clinic room last month, Jessica Martin, 25, closed her eyes as Dr. O'Neil made an incision and screwed a finger-size tube of naltrexone tablets into her numbed stomach.
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The proliferation of sites like these perhaps help answer one of the questions that always comes up in the debate about guns on screen: Have we become numbed by watching so much violence?
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So she numbed herself with denial, looking the other way when her husband would fly into drunken rages at the children, hurl abusive insults their way, and later, strike one of their sons.
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Our aim is to do so in-depth, so we won't be part of the traveling campaign circuses sending daily reports while having our minds numbed by the endless loop of stump speeches.
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Europe's response to the crisis of a decade ago — protracted austerity combined with massive central bank stimulus and still-unfinished banking reforms — saved the euro but has left many of its economies numbed.
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It could be argued that the blank, affectless Martin has been numbed by the shock of his partner's death, but the other characters seem to be just as dazed and deadpan as he is.
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Maybe "UnREAL" played this card too soon for us — or Rachel — to be attached to Brandi, or maybe Rachel's just numbed by her own powerlessness, but Brandi's breakdown happens without Rachel batting an eye.
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That great crimes can create great fortunes; that, mired in greed and lust, thieves fall out; that the woman scorned, of numbed conscience toward the victims of her marriage's larcenies, plays the victim wife.
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Here, time doesn't sit still; the objects in the frame are not numbed to a halt, or frozen, as it's often phrased—they seem to collide from distant ends, together, defining a new world.
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Ehrenreich set out to rediscover the lost land of the working class as a self-conscious representative of the complacent middle class, in order to send word back and stimulate the numbed yuppie conscience.
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Although the O-shot sounds about as excruciating as another Sex and the City reboot, I didn't feel much because I was so numbed out—just a bit of pressure and a slight soreness afterward.
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In "Far…," presented at Dance Theater Workshop in 2008, he created a strange documentary theater about political torture in which his dancing seemed to express a numbed state of post-invasion, post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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Her teacher at the folk school had his teenage charges jump into a frigid polar river so that, by learning to force their ice-numbed limbs into action, they would be prepared to save themselves.
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"The steady drumbeat of breaches in the headlines — each more fantastic than the next — may have numbed people, but everyone should care about the cyber threat," explains Lisa Monaco, homeland security adviser to Barack Obama.
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Even with the passage of nearly 18 years, reliving modern America's most terrible day hits an exposed nerve that you thought had been fully numbed, only to discover that the ache was merely in remission.
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Yet the Knicks, after years of losing basketball that numbed their fans and helped run off the star forward Carmelo Anthony and Phil Jackson, the former team president, proved they are fun and feisty again.
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In "Time's Journey Through a Room," by the Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada, Kazuki (Kensaku Shinohara) is a young man dazed and numbed by his own sadness, still stunned by his wife's death the year before.
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"Clemency" also deals with death-row inmates, but the perspective here is unusual -- following the process of execution, and attempts to secure mercy from the government, through the weary eyes of an emotionally numbed warden.
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Their openness about their pain made them formidable leaders of the movement for gun control, and their displays of strength and utter grief struck a chord with a nation numbed by repeated acts of violence.
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I masked those dark feelings and numbed myself with anything I could find, cut myself off from people, was angry, irritable, had sudden aggressive impulses, drank, got scared, drank, panicked, drank, felt anxious, felt erased.
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In treating his injuries, Eubanks was heavily medicated, and he told CNN that he quickly developed an addiction to the pain medication after being drawn to the way it numbed his emotions following the traumatic experience.
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Next, Lee said it was time to treat the bump, so she numbed the area by injecting a solution directly into the bump, and then she used a scalpel to cut it open about three inches.
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Your animal instincts — initially numbed by Jewel's astonishing landscape — prick up, and you begin to feel restless, for you know that while there are plants and trees, there's nonetheless a ceiling between you and the sky.
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And for all this, the Badgers are college basketball anesthesia, a program whose blend of tempo (crustacean-like), tradition (a 76-year championship drought), and location (Midwestern tundra) have, over the long haul, mostly numbed the senses.
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In fact, it was over so quickly that the snow in the treads of my winter boots hadn't fully melted by the time I left the clinic and gingerly took my numbed nuts home on the subway.
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And just like any good outfighter, as soon as Gastellum realized that Belfort wasn't going to counter punch and was being numbed to the flicked jabs, he stepped in and dropped the 'two' to follow the 'one'.
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One senior European diplomat said Trump's decision had "sedated" the talks into a numbed sense of unity, avoiding major confrontations to underscore that the main faultline on policy was between Trump and the rest of the world.
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While the other student suffered first-degree burns, Mr. Yanes was left with burns so deep that his sweat glands were numbed and he is no longer able to sweat through some of parts of his body.
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Shoegaze — named for its players' tendency to stare down at complex warrens of effects pedals, or stompboxes — was born out of a young British population so numbed by successive Conservative governments that it turned to sonic immolation.
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Death penalty critics, citing executions that they say were botched, argue that midazolam puts prisoners at risk of an unconstitutionally painful punishment because the condemned may be insufficiently numbed to the agony caused by the execution drugs.
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What's strangely comforting about Mortal Kombat 11 is not only that Mortal Kombat is still fun to play, but that decades of playing video games have not, despite Joe Lieberman's worst fears, numbed me to its extreme violence.
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At the end of last year, numbed by both the death of my father and birth of my book, I started my days with the antidepressant (that had been prescribed) and ended them with Xanax (that had not).
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If we are that disconnected from 1936, but the Old English poetic codices predate Benjamin by an entire millennium, then it is no wonder that being confronted by these manuscripts leads to a feeling of numbed, startled astonishment.
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Among his touchstones are the estates that Cecil Beaton occupied: The photographer once wrote that the lilac brick of Ashcombe House 21956 miles outside Salisbury, which he rented from 1930 to 1945, "almost numbed" him at first sight.
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Here's how it works: With your face numbed by either cream or a local anesthetic, a hypodermic needle is inserted underneath the skin, below the scar tissue, and run from side to side, beneath the surface of the skin.
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At last it becomes clear to Mary that the train is taking its passengers to somewhere mysterious and terrible, a "ninth kingdom" that is frozen in ice and to which the passengers are gradually numbed as they approach it.
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Listen to Ms. Kazan's alternately whiny and accommodating Rose deploying in vain every stratagem possible to capture her parents' attention, or Mr. Rosenfield's 14-year-old Jamie shutting down into numbed oblivion in the middle of a family firestorm.
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The other side effect I noticed with the Ativan that seemed particularly frustrating was that the muscle relaxant it contained numbed my throat in such a way that I couldn't get my voice to sound the way I like.
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It is in this state of numbed resignation that an unexpected crack forms in the thick glass that has been separating me from "normal" people: A ray of light that reveals a world of intimacy I have been overlooking.
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While it's understandable to feel numbed by injustice, we should take a page out of HRC's book — because she just keeps on being a class act and coming up with useful ways to help people instead of dwelling on the past.
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The facelift — done on a Goop employee whose face was pre-numbed before hopping up on stage — involved a doctor sticking a needle and thread through a woman's cheek in order to pull the sugar-molecule thread through her skin.
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I was well on my way to becoming an emo (again, listened to a lot of the Cranberries), but was not yet numbed from being pummelled with thousands of ads, both subliminal and overt, every day for many years to come.
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In those moments, we are reminded that Trump knows what other thinking people know: In a world not blinded and numbed by racial tribalism, demographic fears and cultural panic, these issues that barely nick him would cut him smooth and deep.
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Inside the West Wing, aides to Mr. Trump — numbed and desensitized by breathless news cycles blaring headlines about the president's behavior — said privately on Tuesday afternoon that they were having trouble assessing how devastating the day's legal events might be.
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The hands-behind-the back posture recurs throughout the work, as the dancers gently lay one another down, or lie down without prompting — only to get up and go down again, as if from habit, as numbed as the voices.
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She explained that I would be numbed, that I should tell her if there was any sharp sensation so the doctors could increase the medication, that I would hear a "whish" like the jet into the eye during a glaucoma exam.
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The most shocking aspect of the President's latest flurry of untruths in recent days relating to events before the 2016 election is that they were not at all shocking to a nation numbed by his barrage of easily disprovable claims and statements.
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Born in 1948, Lloyd Webber as a child was an Elvis nut who played "Jailhouse Rock" until his parents were numbed by it, and later led a school celebration for the duo Peter and Gordon, recent alumni who had had a pop hit.
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It was also in this period that she quit drinking and came to realize that for years, alcohol had numbed her nerves in the moments she felt overwhelmed or stressed and that without it, she would have to face her anxiety alone.
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The details of her long traipse through wartime exile, multiple suicide attempts, psychiatric incarcerations and decades of heroin addiction could fill books; Kavan filled 16 novels with them, though her preference was to sublimate autobiography into pensive, dislocated and somewhat numbed tableaus.
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The actual scraping and prodding of my brows was underwhelming — I had built up the experience so much in my mind that I expected a lot more pain, but since Berry numbed my brows multiple times throughout the process I barely felt anything at all.
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For 10 years, haunted by the memory of 29 Marine comrades who fought with him in Iraq and didn't make it home, Mike Ergo numbed his sorrow with drugs and alcohol, hoping that each time he passed out drunk, it would help him to forget.
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By now, we are pretty much numbed to the absurdity and power-thirst of college sports, but every once in a while something happens to remind us that these are actual adults with authority over the lives of college students—and sometimes they misuse it.
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Some of that may be from guilt, from feeling like I failed in my basic responsibility to do no harm; some of that is because, even as I've numbed to much of the worst that humans can do to one another, Harun's experience still overwhelms me.
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Perhaps the likelier candidate is Dorothy herself, marooned in her West Coast suburb, neglected by her philandering husband—they are, she tells her only friend, "too unhappy to get a divorce"—and numbed by the successive deaths of an infant son, an unborn child, and the family dog.
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And that change, in turn, is strongly associated with alterations in how their offspring handle stress: namely, the young mice are numbed, or less reactive, to the hormones compared to control animals, said Dr. Bale, director of the university's Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development.
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There's been a lot of immersive art exhibits in recent years—the Rain Room and Infinity Mirrored Room come to mind—and their overpowering effect have been numbed a bit by all the social media plastering but they're still good fun if you want to just disappear into another world.
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As is, the only thing that really sticks is the doomed beauty of 1962's surf rock tinged "James Bond Theme" — dum did-d-dy dum, dum dum dum, dum did-d-dy dum — which plays ad infinitum throughout the show, leaving the visitor neither shaken nor stirred, just numbed.
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CreditCreditJane Hahn for The New York Times FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Hoisted onto the operating table by a nurse, Aminata Conteh, a spunky 8-year-old, crossed her skinny ankles jauntily and held stock-still as doctors numbed her eye and then pierced it with a needle to withdraw a sample of fluid.
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We'll feel numbed by Neptune and shocked by Uranus, and an opportunity to learn what the fuck is really going on—especially in our partnerships—will arrive with the full moon (which is sure to be an emotionally sensitive occasion), allowing us to see clearly what we need to do in order to move forward.
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Kristallo was one of many British teens uploading commemorative posts: Before his death, Lil Peep had managed to capture in his music the anxiety and nihilistic worldview common among many young people these days—a burden that Peep, like other rappers, numbed with painkillers and tranquilizers, like Xanax, often posting photos and videos of himself doing so online.
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Marianne Elliott ("War Horse") directs a cast that includes Andrew Garfield (as the drag queen who speaks with angels), Denise Gough (as a pharmaceutically numbed Mormon, at sea in New York and the Antarctic) and, in one of the season's most anticipated marriages of an actor and a role, Nathan Lane (as the closeted super-lawyer Roy Cohn).
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Zim's world of greyscale T-shirt logos that read "BAND" and citizens so numbed by TV that they fail to react to the giant mechanical alien cable bursting through their living room was an apt parable for a nation leaning full-tilt into a trauma-fuelled "progressive stupidity," to quote the title of the Season 2 DVD.
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In mid-June, Donald Trump ended an inflammatory anti-immigration speech by hugging the American flag, a truly ridiculous and near-dystopian sight that would have haunted me for days had I not been numbed to the whole thing by Cristiano Ronaldo's sublime hat trick against Spain and the mini-controversy that erupted around his awful goatee.
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Whether this is a good thing or a very, very bad thing—proof of a growing subtlety and sophistication in matters of morality and will and multitudinous humanity, or evidence of an atrophying sense of empathy numbed by countless hours spent watching other people harm themselves and others for my amusement—is a question for psychologists and neurologists and moralists to ponder.
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No, I'm not pointing any fingers, as I too struggle daily with the tense conversations I share with Easton about how much happier and more motivated she is when she's not checked out and numbed out on her devices — how alive, electric, kind and communicative she is when the aggression of staring at an iPad, iPhone or laptop hasn't hijacked my kid and her bright future.
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"These needles go up and down very quickly...your skin gets penetrated, but the needles are thin enough that the holes do not take a long time to heal," says to Jonathan Drysdale, internist and owner of Hela Medical Spa in Washington, DC. When you get this procedure done at a medical spa, your face is numbed with topical anesthetic while your blood is drawn so your PRP can be separated and collected.
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Robert Frost embedded his own hoary maxims (good fences make good neighbors, and so on) in undermining contexts, or assigned them to unreliable speakers; Lee's axioms, too, come out of people's mouths, but the people sometimes seem numbed by the wisdom emanating from their moving lips: You say: We cannot look upon Love's face without dying, So we face each other to see Love's look, And thus third-person souls suddenly stand at gaze, and the lover and the beloved, second- and first-persons, You and I, eye to eye, are born.
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Months later, when I was back home teaching Greek and Roman classics again, it occurred to me that the difficulties we have with Aeneas and his epic cease to be difficulties once you think of him not as a hero but as a type we're all too familiar with: a survivor, a person so fractured by the horrors of the past that he can hold himself together only by an unnatural effort of will, someone who has so little of his history left that the only thing that gets him through the present is a numbed sense of duty to a barely discernible future that can justify every kind of deprivation.
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