| 单词 | stupefying |
| 例句 | Perhaps sensing that the conversation was moving from stupid to stupefying, Mini piped up. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a bit like sleeping in the engine room of Ladderal Mill—noisy beyond belief but stupefyingly rhythmic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The city has now been Arab far longer than she was Greek, yet for sheer, stupefying destructiveness, the Arabs stand near the bottom of the list of the city’s victimizers. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Lawrence presented the data, and Oppenheimer followed with a “typically stupefyingly brilliant exposition of its theoretical consequences,” which his hundreds of spectators strained to make out through his “nim-nim-nim” mumbling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even so, the number of useful ways of putting nucleic acids together is stupefyingly large—probably far greater than the total number of electrons and protons in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That bombardier’s name, he remembered suddenly with another stupefying shock, had also been Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He ordered men to go out in canoes and pitch dynamite in the river, stupefying everything within earshot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Chastened by criticism of the stupefying length of October’s Dedication Day ceremony, the fair’s officers had kept the Opening Day program short and pledged to honor the timetable at all costs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Maybe Nina had a stupefying effect on all stalwart northerners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If we wish to return unsterilized Martian samples to Earth, we must have a containment procedure that is stupefyingly reliable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She has stupefying technique and arresting musical ideas. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z The American culture war, that combustible, stupefying cocktail of religion, sex, politics and everything else that gets people hot and bothered, represents a rich vein of satiric and dramatic potential. | 'Salvation Boulevard': An Evangelist, an Atheist and a Murder That Tests Faith 2011-07-14T23:06:36Z David Fincher's direction creates just the right intensity and claustrophobia for a story that takes place largely in a stupefyingly male environment at Harvard University in 2003, shown in flashback from various acrimonious legal proceedings. The Social Network ? review 2010-10-14T20:29:00Z The rhythm of Mamet's language is so stupefying that the twists and turns of the plot barely make any impression at all. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z It's a stupefyingly intimidating trove of inspiration that winds through most of Miles's major periods: from bop to modal to light-touch abstraction, on to deep funk and, finally, a bid at mainstream pop. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z No stupefying poverty yet no family wealth or business to limit my freedom.” John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z It’s the most stupefying film that purports to be about a theatrical production I’ve ever seen. ArtsBeat: Five Questions About a List About Movies About Theater 2010-12-20T21:00:16Z It's a feat of stupefying impudence: if only there were a God able to strike the imposter down during his tour of the talk shows! The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z That statement might be laughable to anyone who experienced his 2019 output, which includes both his visually stupefying turn as the genie in the live-action version of "Aladdin" and "Gemini Man." Will Smith perfected blockbuster success, but his Oscar-worthiness is tougher – slap or no slap 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The statistics of the war are stupefying, but they are more graspable, and more shocking, when seen not as a conglomeration of data but as an extended sequence of individuals. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Great War Opens in Meaux, France 2011-11-12T00:48:01Z "LOST" ENDS: More than 13 million watched the ABC desert island mystery conclude after six seasons of twisted plot lines, alternate realities and stupefying cliffhangers. NBC's late-night fiasco tops 2010's stories 2010-12-20T18:01:16Z One of its most disappointing essays is about aliens in science fiction, which manages, against stupefying odds, to contain just one interesting insight: that authors tend to be more concerned with physics than with biology. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z What we get is endless choice and stupefying abundance. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z This stupefying film defies logic as it grafts grisly violence with a maternal bonding plot. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Our wars became chronic and endless and stupefyingly expensive. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z TLC’s stupefying longform docuseries is a great and terrible beauty that combines the appearance of overnight love with the practicality of immigration concerns. Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z But this inane, preposterous and stupefying film lacks the courage to milk the concept for the extreme satire that might have made it watchable. ‘A Long Way Down,’ a Suicide Pact Comedy 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The fact that I had a gay forebear hit with stupefying force. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The only people who won’t be on his tail are those looking for a good action film — the stupefyingly sluggish “Kandahar” isn’t it. ‘Kandahar’ Review: Marooned in a Dull Movie 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Once there Rachel discovers two things: Nick’s steely mother, Eleanor, thinks Rachel is beneath her, and Nick — and the rest of his family — is obscenely, stupefyingly wealthy. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Why Did It Take So Long to See a Cast Like This? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Even in his elementary school in California, he incited fellow first-graders to ignore their teacher’s “stupefyingly obvious” instructions to wallpaper the rooms of a dollhouse and instead “tear up the wallpaper and make multicolored collages.” Gonzo museum director Walter Hopps paints his colorful life in art 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The stupefying heat at times meant the works for toy piano took on a particularly surreal quality, with the whistles of Jorge Torres Sáenz’s “Toy Symphony” piercing the heavy air with startling force. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z Rembrandt expresses the moral squalor of luxury through a stupefying excess of painterly richness. Happy birthday, Rembrandt van Rijn! Why Google really shouldn't have 2013-07-15T12:26:11Z But, according to sociologist Richard Sennett, it's a "stupefying" place where "there is nothing to be learned from walking the streets". Aerotropolis:the city of the future? 2013-03-03T00:05:17Z At moments of crisis—-one involves an actual bolt of lightning, another, the consumption of a stupefying meal—the reader experiences a sensory ricochet. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It is mortifying, awful, stupefying and completely hilarious. My Dad Wrote A Porno is like Jackanory, but in a twisted alternate universe 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Man Ray “succeeded in creating landscapes which are foreign to our planet,” wrote a friend, the surrealist poet Robert Desnos, “revealing a chaos that is more stupefying than that foreseen by any Bible.” Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z "It's stupefying, especially as I'm not sure she's even read the novel since it hasn't been translated yet," he said. Scarlett Johansson wins case against bestselling French novelist 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z He calls the struggling City Opera’s decision in 2009 to make George Steel its general manager, though he had never run a comparably large institution, “nothing short of stupefying.” Reynold Levy’s New Book Names Names, Including the Met and Peter Gelb 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He began his concert on Tuesday at Weill Recital Hall with Jason Eckardt’s “Echoes’ White Veil,” a dizzying, manic 12-minute work of almost stupefying difficulty. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z This last-minute twist is shameless and stupefying, but it demonstrates why Sparks has an army of fervent readers. Review: 'Safe Haven' is routine romantic thriller 2013-02-14T01:31:06Z Constitution, Hirsi Ali consistently demonstrates both galling hypocrisy and a stupefying lack of self-awareness. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z They are so beautiful, so stupefyingly perfect, they feel almost sacrilegious. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And they say modern-day television is intellectually stupefying. Last night's TV: Christmas with Gordon; Come Dine with Me: Celebrity Christmas Special; Jimmy's Food Factory; Nigella Kitchen; Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers 2010-12-23T07:59:01Z At this point, the crimes have been so ineptly orchestrated that their stupefying nature may be Gloria’s biggest obstacle in solving them. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Wolf in Cheap Clothing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In an industry at demonstrable odds with most family values, such gratitude rings hollow and stupefyingly meh. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z "It's stupefying, especially as I'm not sure she's even read the novel since it hasn't been translated yet." Seeing read: Scarlett Johansson sues French novelist 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis is long-form journalism’s great demystifier, a writer whose prose has the remarkable capacity to turn stupefying arcana into plain common sense. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z One of the men who picks up, apparently buying Navalny’s impersonation of an official, spills the beans in stupefying detail. ‘Navalny’ Review: Speaking Truth to Power in a Corrupt System 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Today’s world is flooded by stupid and stupefying objects. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z Holmes's job as a character is to embody the idea of a man with stupefying mental control: he is a collection of showbiz tricks rather than an actual case study. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z And so who were Taylor Swift and Kanye the world will ask in 20 years and why all the fuss over such stupefying noise? Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Astounded though you certainly are by all that has come before, please remain plastered — in your seats, that is — for the stupefying conclusion to this tale! The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z On some level, its music wagers, all of us feel that society is stupefying, and modernity is terrifying. How Arcade Fire Found a Way Back 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In that and the Anchorman movies, and here too, he’s not mean, exactly — just stupendously ignorant of certain social niceties and stupefyingly oblivious to the working-class people around him. Don't Tell Anyone, But I Kind of Liked Get Hard 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Set aside for the moment the fact that declaring oneself a spokesman for God is stupefyingly egotistical. The religious right’s policing of sex robs pleasure from the underprivileged 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But the First World War remains distinctively stupefying. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z His attitude to money, success and the consumer society is summed up in Flat Waste, his most stupefying diary of all. Dieter Roth: the video-diary Rembrandt 2012-08-01T17:15:01Z I yanked-out the map and scanned its stupefying squiggles for a clue. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Along with a short retrospective essay by Ms. Lippard, chapters by the exhibition’s organizers, Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin, clearly and engagingly explicate a genre that casual observers often find stupefyingly obscure. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z "That experience — it was just transforming. The whole museum — it's absolutely stupefying, it's glorious." The heat and the lines couldn't keep them from the Broad on opening day 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z His bellowed insults are perhaps the best thing about the show, so crude and so anatomically stupefying that they make Malcolm Tucker sound like Ned Flanders. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z Director Fernando León de Aranoa wanted to play their relationship seriously, but it comes off like a bad telenovela, emphasizing the garish costumes and sets and creating elaborate and stupefying set pieces. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z What unites these writers is their disregard for traditional disciplinary boundaries and a determination to reach for synoptic knowledge of stupefyingly complex subjects. Niall Ferguson Examines Disasters of the Past and Disasters Still to Come 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Artifacts of better times and distant lands and the stupefying diversity of mankind’s sonic output. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z Luckily, for me and for Freddie, the stupefying naïveté of the ’70s provided cover for even the most flagrant acts of effeminacy. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Yet this small book requires, at times, a stupefyingly large suspension of disbelief. John le Carré’s ‘A Delicate Truth’: a dark mix of motive and opportunity 2013-05-15T22:58:58Z The poorest in the series, just one long, loud, violent, at times stupefyingly silly chase around Moscow. A Good Day to Die Hard – review 2013-02-17T00:07:26Z “It is stupefying in a way, because we are all so familiar with the catalog,” said Elmar Juchem, managing editor of the critical edition of Weill’s scores, who found the three-page manuscript for the song. Hear a Newly Found Kurt Weill Song That Surprised Experts 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z So does the prospect of getting Warren in bed with a girl and thus ending what Dennis calls a “stupefying losing streak.” ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Baxter characterizes Camp Victory in Iraq as a place with “a stupefying lack of drama,” which proves to be an apt description of his novel’s plot as well. Books of The Times: ‘The Apartment,’ a Debut Novel by Greg Baxter 2013-12-10T22:30:31Z By turns breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull — funny, maddening and elegiac — “The Pale King” will be minutely examined by longtime fans for the reflexive light it sheds on Wallace’s oeuvre and his life. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z The stupefying truth revealed itself, and a polite call to his cheery stepmother confirmed that his dad was alive and well — “working in the chicken coop.” L.A. Affairs: He lied to me over and over. I went back to him anyway 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Australian singer Nick Cave has said he is attending the Coronation for "the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring". Katy Perry, Jill Biden and Ant and Dec among guests at the King's coronation 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z But he will be attending on Saturday for "the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring". King Charles Coronation: The curtain rises on the strangest show in town 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z L.A. has a stupefying number of histories, each with its own claim on the land. Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But as a viral tweet revealed in December, the stranger in the middle is not always thrilled — and some fellow travelers find the strategy stupefying, or even reprehensible. This airline booking hack is dividing the internet 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Climate diplomacy can be stupefying — a series of conferences during which intense debates rage about the placement of commas in official documents. Opinion | The Egypt climate conference showed progress on warming is in jeopardy 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z This villainous level of bureaucratic dysfunction and political impotence is stupefying, and over the years we’ve heard plenty of candidates vow to finally make City Hall work for the people. Column: A $2-million 'bike lane to nowhere' symbolizes L.A.'s outrageous dysfunction 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Even so, when the heat wave hit, it felt shocking and stupefying; not just a few degrees hotter than we’re used to, but a whole new order of things. Opinion | Living through the British heat wave was unbearable. We can’t downplay it. 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It remains stupefying that the movie industry chose not to capitalize on Bubbles’s talent and magnetism. Review | Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse owe their moves to a man called Bubbles 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius. Stars and royalty watch ABBA’s return in digital stage show 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In an era of stupefying inequality, one of the most famous members of the upper class is a former drug dealer from a notorious public-housing project. The Psychic Contortions of the Black Mogul-Entertainer 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z My robustness elicited stupefying responses from even the most well-intentioned friends. Perspective | The end of my life was killing me 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Rather stupefyingly, The Times printed the addresses of these newly defensible dwellings. Cold War L.A. could have been a nuclear target. One response: the fallout shelter 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It was stupefying, and I said, "Maybe I could interview him by ham radio." Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein on journalism, Trump and history: "The truth is not neutral" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The sheer number of cultural artifacts is stupefying. Opinion | In the BlackBerry’s death, a powerful reminder: Everything is ephemeral 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “It was 15 minutes of my life that was super-aggravating and also stupefying,” she said. Are motorists angrier these days? What's perception and what's reality 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “Little Dorrit,” the 1857 novel by Charles Dickens, lampoons the omnipotent “Department of Circumlocution,” whose stupefying procedures keep the heroine down. How Tech Is Helping Poor People Get Government Aid 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Washington’s three main concerns — injuries, finishing and Heinicke — were evident on the game’s final drive, set up only by a stupefying run of mistakes by the Broncos. Analysis | The WFT offense has three main issues: Injuries, finishing and Taylor Heinicke 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z A Republican stalwart offers a possible explanation for the cavalier attitude among many members of the Democratic Party towards these stupefying amounts of money. Democrats try to make a trillion ‘sound normal’ 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z I missed my younger daughter: a sweet, complicated, anxious and stupefyingly talkative child, who had been marooned with a Chromebook at our kitchen table with an agonizing backlog of things to worry about and say. I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane? 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But here, in Southern California’s stupefying sunlight, there were, thankfully, no billboards equating the freedom to date whom you want to the freedom to order weed via an app. Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Considering how attached we are to our devices, to the stupefying convenience of accessing the entirety of human history with a few clicks and swipes, the idea of Neurocracy seems natural. Neurocracy is future fiction in the form of Wikipedia 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s all a result of improvement he has made since the start of the season, breakthroughs that turned tantalizing potential into stupefying reality. Five reasons why Shohei Ohtani is better than ever and the favorite for AL MVP 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The Rays continue to be baseball’s most mystifying and stupefying study in innovation: reliant on analytics, relentless in their infield shifts and unconcerned with traditional pitching norms. Analysis | The Tampa Bay Rays — quirky, innovative and unapologetically themselves — are at it again 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z That’s the iPad Pro in a microcosm: stupefyingly good hardware with some stupid limitations in how Apple expects it to be used. Now the iPad Pro has to live up to the MacBook Air 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The series opener Friday night featured a stupefying mishmash of highlights, oddities and escalated emotions. Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts lift Dodgers over Padres for eighth straight win 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Thumbs down to Sidney Powell, a former Donald Trump lawyer, for her stupefying defense strategy. Editorial Roundup: Minnesota 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Adding to our perpetual mental fog is the stupefying disconnect between the ideals of liberty and equality and the realities of the civilian workplace and the military. "Big government" and other lies we live by: How one Orwellian concoction consumed America 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z A more stupefying story of Oral Roberts basketball dates back to the last time the team won a tournament game, in 1974, when they were on the brink of the Final Four. Expecting N.C.A.A. Miracles, the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles Make a Run 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z With his stupefying unoriginality, Mandel sounds exactly like innumerable congressional Republicans who clawed their way to Washington by espousing an anti-Washington-cocktail-circuit stance as conservatism. Opinion | Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z And in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of "stupefying ignorance" over his comments about violence in the city. Johnson 'glad' to see Trump go, says ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z On what grounds are they taking this stupefying step? Editorial Roundup: New York 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Rams were no doubt asking themselves again and again after their stupefying 23-20 loss to the New York Jets — yes, that 0-13 Jets team that lost 40-3 in Seattle a week earlier. Three things to know about the Seahawks’ Week 16 opponent, the Los Angeles Rams 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But there is a larger point: the level of senatorial bloviation, on both sides, was stupefying. Trump allies urge a new focus as his court nominee testifies 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Most stupefying was Trump’s advice that right-wing militants should “stand by” for violence after the election or his claim that the results may be invalid. The mistake on the lake 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Despite our wondrous medical technology and stupefying wealth, this virus fills mass graves and crushes the breath from the lungs of its victims rich and poor across the continent. Charting a course for hubris 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Plus: the stupefying effect of carbon dioxide, and a chameleon gemstone that tricks your eyes. Daily briefing: How desperate measures might shorten the coronavirus vaccine timeline — and at what risk 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Along the way, there will be stupefying picks that prove to be spectacularly prescient and seemingly safe selections that end up embarrassing busts. A Virtual N.F.L. Draft Might Be a Back to the Future Moment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z This misfit band of lawyers brought with them arguments so stunningly stupefying, logic so fatally flawed and a cynicism so brazenly transparent that one suspects Baghdad Bob was viewing the entire spectacle with grudging respect. Opinion | Trump’s confederacy of dunces 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z That’s a stupefying statement, but from Rockefeller’s point of view, it makes perfect sense. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Illinois newspapers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z And some can fairly be called stupefying: Sound Transit’s risk evaluation downplayed derailment as a potential hazard. Derailment report shows how much Sound Transit must improve 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But this is a matter of science, which means the Republicans have it completely and stupefyingly wrong. What civil liberties? Kentucky's medieval abortion law amounts to state-sanctioned rape 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z I always seemed to say the wrong thing and people found me brusque, abrupt, or stupefyingly rude. I lived with depression for decades – until my Asperger's diagnosis explained it all 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Complementing this Decalogue, inscribed not on two tablets but in thousands of pages of stupefyingly bureaucratic prose, is an unwritten eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not prevent the commander-in-chief from doing what he deems necessary. False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “The brutality and the totally unexpected character of what is happening are stupefying,” Bollore said. Renault CEO denounces 'coup' at Renault: Les Echos 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But the whistle-blower’s stark, straightforward account of stupefying treachery deserves to be repeated as often as possible. Opinion | Impeaching the Peach One 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But the whistle-blower’s stark, straightforward account of stupefying treachery deserves to be repeated as often as possible. Opinion | Last Exit From Trumpland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But the whistle-blower’s stark, straightforward account of stupefying treachery deserves to be repeated as often as possible. Opinion | Trump Can’t Take a Punch 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But the whistle-blower’s stark, straightforward account of stupefying treachery deserves to be repeated as often as possible. Opinion | Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In 2015, while Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of "stupefying ignorance" for calling parts of the city no-go areas. Johnson and Trump speak ahead of G7 meeting 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The stupefying regularity of these mass killings can inspire a sense of futility, even as the evidence suggests that the political prospects for gun control are shifting. The Mass Shootings in El Paso and Dayton Should Spur Democrats to Propose Big Ideas on Gun Violence 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z He played down the PM's criticism of Mr Trump when he was London mayor, when he called him "stupefyingly ignorant". Trump-Johnson relationship 'will be sensational' 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z In response, Mr Johnson - then mayor of London - accused him of a "quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of president of the United States". What Boris Johnson has said about other countries 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Johnson may be hoping no one reminds Trump that in 2015 he accused him of “stupefying ignorance” and said Trump was “unfit to hold the office of president of the United States.” With Boris Johnson tipped to win PM race, UK eyes rocky ride 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z He was also charged with two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent. John Worboys charged with sex offences 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Maybe that was how Archer came up with his stupefying pitch and putt on 15 that Sunday 50 years ago. The Masters champion who couldn't read or write - Golf Digest 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In 2015, Boris Johnson, as London Mayor, said Mr Trump's claim that parts of the city were "no-go areas" showed "quite stupefying ignorance" and made him unfit to be president. Trump-Johnson relationship 'will be sensational' 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It took just two years for the Huskies to perfect coach Mike Hopkins’ stupefying zone defense and assemble the pieces of a championship puzzle for a championship run. Huskies clinch share of Pac-12 regular-season title with 64-55 victory over Colorado 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z And, more important than my subjective tastes, the dynamic range I’m seeing here is a little stupefying. This Nokia 9 photo has me hyped 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Every indication says the 2019 Oscars will be a no-frills affair that will settle into a stupefying rhythm earlier than usual: “We were hired to deliver a shortened show,” Gigliotti told The New York Times. The efforts to fix the Oscars reveal a deep contempt for the Oscars 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z There are even quintuple doubles, a stupefying exploit — 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks — performed by the women’s star Tamika Catchings when she was in high school in 1997. Russell Westbrook, Paul George and ... Jeff Ruland? The Triple-Double Through Time 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z That they should have been backed by Lenin’s “useful idiots” in Britain’s Labour party is stupefying. Nicolás Maduro must be praying for the US to intervene in Venezuela | Simon Jenkins 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But to admit that you see Trump as a “lunatic” but still fought passionately for his election, solely because of his views on immigration, is stupefying. Ann Coulter completely unleashes on Trump: "We put this lunatic in the White House for one reason" 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z I’m not kidding, I was complimented on how organized my bag was, and I credit the bag itself for that because of how stupefyingly easy it is to get things in and out of it. My best friend at CES was a Douchebag 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Walk up the steps between those two lions, get yourself a library card, and don’t be an idiot like the rest of the bogtrotters getting off the boat and stupefying themselves with drink. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z And Mr. Johnson, who once called Mr. Trump “stupefyingly ignorant,” “clearly out of his mind” and unfit to be president, has lately taken to praising him back. Boris Johnson, Eyes on Downing Street, Sets Political Fires 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Johnson, who once called Trump “stupefyingly ignorant,” “clearly out of his mind” and unfit to be president, has lately taken to praising him back. The rise of Boris Johnson, in all his carefully honed, disheveled glory 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s stupefying that the academy doesn’t understand how they’ve diminished their brand. Calendar Letters: Academy loses popularity 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Not much to say, really, only the 42-year-old is 18 holes away from completing one of the most stupefying comebacks in sports history. From Rahm to Rickie to yes, Tiger, there's a crowd chasing Brooks Koepka at Bellerive - Golf Digest 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s time, after this wretched and stupefying past week, to allay them. Opinion | Disgusted With Donald Trump? Do This 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Underwood’s allegations of flagrant disregard for state and federal laws would be stupefying with respect to any charity, but are particularly disturbing given the foundation’s connections to the president and his campaign. Editorials from around New York 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But the triumph of “My Brilliant Friend” is also stupefying because its author does no promotion at all. In a rare interview, Elena Ferrante describes the writing process behind the Neapolitan novels 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z His lawyers say a calculation by court employees that he should serve life in prison is “draconian” and “stupefyingly unreasonable and unjust.” Turkish banker in Iran sanctions case faces sentencing 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z His lawyers say a calculation by court employees that he should serve life in prison is “draconian” and “stupefyingly unreasonable and unjust.” Turkish banker in Iran sanctions case faces sentencing 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The basics of winemaking are, in fact, almost stupefyingly simple: all it involves is crushing together some ripe grapes. Has wine gone bad? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z But Boris “Watermelon Smiles” himself described the current president, in 2015, as “unfit to lead the United States”, “clearly out of his mind”, and “stupefyingly ignorant”. The full plans for the porn president’s UK visit – revealed! | Stewart Lee 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Compared to "Become Ocean," "Become Desert" is a study in stupefying stillness. Becoming John Luther Adams: The evolution of one of America's hottest composers 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The attorneys say a calculation by court employees that federal sentence guidelines call for a life sentence is “draconian” and “stupefyingly unreasonable and unjust.” Turkish banker seeks leniency after US sanctions conviction 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Why on earth some people think they should not do the same with regards to children, is stupefying. New York City Is Failing Homeless Students, Reports Say 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The voice took a technical game of stupefying moments and 100,000-strong crowds and distilled it to its humanity. Perspective | Good night, Keith Jackson. And thanks. 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It is stupefying that there isn’t a track in my state, given the Old Dominion’s contributions to equine culture. Railbirds Are All the Same, Even Long-Lost Russian Counts 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Following protocol, Martin said, “is a stupefyingly obtuse symbol, which undercuts the church’s mission to hold bishops accountable for their actions, particularly regarding the abuse of children.” Survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic Church decry the Vatican’s honorable funeral for Cardinal Law 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z She is as spontaneous and unpredictable as an actual 17-year-old — someone you know, someone you were — which suggests an altogether stupefying level of craft. The 10 Best Actors of the Year 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z There are a stupefying number of visual details that invite recording. Review | ‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’ is one part history, one part amusement park 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z This is why the age of Trump is so maddening and stupefying: He is warping reality. Opinion | Trump, Chieftain of Spite 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z It was unique, and it was part of a stupefyingly consistent whole. Perspective | ‘Why does this happen?’: The existential crisis of the D.C. sports fan 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The internet, for all its benefits, has had a stupefying effect. Martin Amis: ‘I miss the English’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Shatner: It’s stupefying, really, that people still want to see it. William Shatner talks ‘Wrath of Khan,’ new creative projects 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In an opening weekend that saw plenty of stupefying surprises — Maryland winning at Texas, Liberty upending Baylor — Howard’s was perhaps the most stunning. Howard and Caylin Newton stun UNLV in one of the biggest upsets in college football history 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It's hard to explain the stupefying vastness of the flooding in Texas, the nature of the calamity named Tropical Storm Harvey, until you actually try to drive somewhere in it. On the road in Texas, where all the roads look like rivers 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z This stupefying lack of historical perspective or interest on the part of its dum-dum president is a handicap for U.S. international relations. 8 ways leading European officials perceive America’s big embarrassment in the oval office 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The most thrilling scene in Luc Besson’s stupefyingly ambitious new science fiction opus Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets takes place inside a giant metaphor. Valerian is the ultimate argument in favor of CGI 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Even though the Financial Times described “Who Moved My Cheese?” as “a 94-page work of stupefying banality,” that didn’t stop it from being translated into 44 languages and selling more than 28 million copies. Spencer Johnson dies at 78, found sweet smell of success in ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Since joining the Nats, Scherzer has taken no-hitters into the sixth inning a stupefying 11 times — 13 percent of his starts. When the Nationals have Max Scherzer on the mound, you better not look away 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The way the diminutive Mavic Pro hovers in the air, glued to a spot in three dimensions as if tethered by invisible guylines is stupefying to a novice. Don’t drone drunk 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z If there is one area in which the ad succeeded, it was in its ability to unite people across the political spectrum – even Piers Morgan called it “stupefyingly diabolical” and “snowflake claptrap”. From Coke’s flower power to Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad – how ads co-opt protest 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Super Bowls aren’t supposed to be decided with such stupefying excitement. Super Bowl 2017: Tom Brady leads Patriots to historic comeback win 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Boris Johnson, now the foreign secretary, said he betrayed a “stupefying ignorance” and branded him “unfit” to lead America. Britain’s excruciating embrace of Donald Trump shows how little independence it has gained from Brexit 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite accusing Donald Trump of "quite stupefying ignorance" and being "clearly out of his mind" during the US Presidential election campaign, the foreign secretary appeared to change tack this week. RHI scandal: Politicians and how they use social media - BBC News 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z She has written a swift and elegant introduction to Spielberg’s life and work, in which admiration for his talents and his stupefying success overcomes most of her resistance. Steven Spielberg at Seventy 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Here we get the stupefying, almost impossible-to-credit explanation of how Child captures the texture of Reacher’s thinking: because it’s his thinking, too. How Jack Reacher Was Built 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z He is “unfit to hold the office” because of his “stupefying ignorance.” Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Unless there’s a stat for persuading opponents to join you in making stupefying errors, Washington is a team without a constant strength. Redskins’ best trait is a knack for making the most of wacky, and winning grimy 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z In his Sept. 11 column, Matt Calkins bemoans the Huskies playing cupcake opponents to start the season because he apparently finds these games stupefyingly boring. Backtalk: Sports readers sound off on WSU’s Mike Leach and UW football scheduling 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Great for 16 weeks, stupefyingly bad for one week. NFL 2016: Same team, hurdle for Bengals: Win in playoffs 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z As Roberts noted, the advantages to switching to fleets of self-piloted long-haul trucks are many — the majority of the driving occurs on relatively straightforward, and stupefyingly dull, freeway and interstate systems. As era of autonomous trucking arrives, Michigan researchers prove how easy it is to hack trucks 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He's also accused Mr Trump of being "out of his mind" and of possessing "stupefying ignorance". Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Nasa’s stupefying pictures “are not trying to deceive, but to convey the truth of cosmic scales that we will never experience for ourselves”, he says. Out of this world: why the most important art today is made in space 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Curry reminded everyone that he’s the league’s most sensational, scintillating and stupefying performer. SNYDER: We’re better off after Warriors force rematch with Cavaliers in NBA Finals 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z First off, for a piece framed around an exclusive interview, it takes a stupefyingly long time, as Penn journeys to El Chapo, to get to that interview—roughly 8,900 words, by my unscientific count. Sean Penn’s repellant ode to El Chapo: Why his Rolling Stone interview was even worse than you’ve heard 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Each outburst was a detonation, freezing everyone in the wood-panelled courtroom for a long, stupefying moment, then exploding in a torrent of fingers tweeting on keyboards. Vuvuzelas, Pistorius and Mugabe’s warped rule: my six years in Africa 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In their previous existence, Daniel Murphy was a mildly above average contact hitter with a propensity for stupefying gaffes in the field and on the base paths. Who Is This Team and What Have You Done With the New York Mets? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The stupefying thing about the NFL’s treatment of Brady’s case is that it fit into a bewildering pattern. Tom Brady’s upheld DeflateGate suspension perfectly exhibits the NFL’s shattered disciplinary system 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In his stupefyingly clueless opinion in Citizens United, Justice Anthony Kennedy distinguished between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ corruption. This is why Hillary’s losing: The issue Jeb Bush and Donald Trump understand, which may keep Clinton from the White House 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The photos, never published and left with little accompanying data, document some measures, such as rubbing ice cubes on temples, which are neither strange nor stupefying. These Mysterious Photos Might Solve Your Headache Problem 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z This weekend sees the stupefyingly straightforward denouement to a breathlessly wonderful Test match. Ashes 2015: England v Australia – first Test, day four – live! 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The Socialist Party said it was “dismayed” by the revelations, which reflected America’s “stupefying state paranoia”. I spy, you spy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Hollande’s office didn’t comment beyond announcing Wednesday’s security meeting, though his Socialist Party issued an angry statement saying the reports suggest “a truly stupefying state paranoia.” French President Holds Emergency Meeting Over NSA Intercepts 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Hollande's office didn't comment beyond announcing Wednesday's security meeting, though his Socialist Party issued an angry statement saying the reports suggest “a truly stupefying state paranoia.” Top French security officials to convene emergency meeting after WikiLeaks release 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “You are graduating to the most amazing, stupefying challenges ever bequeathed to any generation,” environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken told the University of Portland in 2009. Dear commencement speakers of 2015: You look fabulous! 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This weekend sees the stupefyingly straightforward denouement to a breathlessly wonderful Test match. Ashes 2015: England v Australia – first Test, day four – live! 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z This is stupefyingly funny in a strange way, but it’s not a joke. Is Twitter really America’s conscience? 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But its front is a smooth, sheer, stupefying cliff full of history. The Dawn Wall: The Inside Story Pricing was not announced; expect it to be stupefying. TVs Get Their Moment at International CES 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z A manager that was so over his head making stupefying decisions it boggles the mind. Letters: The fall of the Dodgers and Angels 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Incredibly, the authorities in Northern Virginia — including Fairfax County police and state and federal prosecutors — have refused to furnish any explanation for this stupefying sequence of events last Aug. 29 in Springfield. The unaccountable death of John Geer The stupefying thing is how Republicans are prone to be led like lambs to the slaughter on this matter. On The Border, The GOP Is Outraged At The Wrong Thing 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z In the second half, Germany played at a much slower pace as the stupefying heat took its toll but still scored a fourth goal through Mueller. Germany mark World Cup century in style, U.S. upset Ghana 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Even as the sheer shock of Rep. Eric Cantor’s stupefying primary loss hung over Washington Wednesday, the early maneuvering to succeed him as House majority leader was quietly but feverishly underway. Republicans and Democrats Both Feel Eric Cantor's Loss 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The judge in the case wrote that there was “no clinching or convincing evidence on record to show that the accused had administered any stupefying substance.” Indian Court Says Forced Marital Sex Is Not Rape 2014-05-12T19:15:53Z Buried in the stupefying lust for money and sex of a capitalist society, the characters have lost all direction in life. Sinosphere Blog: Fans Paint U.S. Shows as Friendly to the Party 2014-04-28T13:18:25Z He made the stupefying decision to fire away, free of hesitation. Heat 102, Knicks 91: Knicks Lose to Heat, With Smith Unable to Make Up for Anthony 2014-04-06T20:43:38Z Despite the two stupefying shots for the albatross and ace, Dyer shot 13-over 83 at Highlander. Mukilteo golfer makes hole-in-one, double-eagle in same round 2014-04-02T01:01:32Z Those colors, corresponding to the stripes of the Indian flag, also covered the cheeks of many of Tendulkar’s fans and pointed to the unique, and at times stupefying, relationship between a country and its hero. 2013: A Look Back, and Beyond: India Comes Together to Say Farewell 2013-12-31T22:12:15Z But Mayor of London Boris Johnson said Mr Cable's assertion was "stupefying and ridiculous". London 'sucking life' out of country 2013-12-19T12:52:32Z As if that were not stupefying enough, the man did nearly the exact same thing two years later. City Room: Long Ago, a Pilot Landed on an Uptown Street. That’s Where the Bar Was. 2013-06-04T22:47:30Z Or maybe it was just the stunning highs and stupefying lows of this season’s team, associated with the “New York” on the front of their jerseys, that made me realize something. Knicks and New York Are Acquired Tastes for One Fan 2013-04-27T17:31:45Z He does not seem to realize that 20 yrs of stupefying jobs congeals the social sophistication needed for quantum leaps in the technological growth he anticipates. Daily chart: Economic growth 2013-04-17T14:03:23Z Kevin Pietersen’s 2012 scoreboard for England included three test innings of stupefying quality, a brief retirement from shorter forms of the game and an estrangement from teammates — not his first — that threatened to become permanent. Cricket: Talent Fulfilled, West Indies and South Africa Rise to Top 2012-12-27T07:37:16Z These are two versions of the stupefying smart city: Masdar the more famous, or infamous; Songdo the more fascinating in a perverse way. No one likes a city that's too smart 2012-12-04T18:00:00Z The excitement in the Palais des Sports was extraordinary: watching Nadin slither his way beyond the chalk fingerprints that marked the point where his rival had spun off was a stupefyingly exhilarating moment. Brit wins climbing World Cup: From the archive, 20 November 1989 2012-11-20T07:30:00Z He blew it in stupefying fashion, with the kind of fireworks that you thought you'd only see from his renowned offensive scheme. Cougars coach Mike Leach's awful first season deserves Empty Corpse Award 2012-11-15T03:35:03Z But the stupefying range of bat habitats, sizes and temperaments isn’t their greatest source of wonder. Why Bats Are So Misunderstood 2012-08-10T12:00:14Z But I’ve now read his latest offering, “Why Our Elites Stink.” and I find myself stupefyingly paralyzed. It’s all the hippies’ fault 2012-07-13T18:15:00Z "I figure it," said Mr. Fentiman sententiously, "as a gigantic panorama—stupefying in its magnitude—and, ah, in all respects unique." Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z If lightning were but one discharge, the thunder would be but one stupefying crash. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A tip of half a crown was stupefying, but he gathered his wits in time to say brokenly at the exit: "Wu-Wu-Walker's is straight up, sir." The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Look at the disaster from whatever point we may, it stands out stupefying in its horror and prodigious in its many-sided significance. From the Archive, 1912: Wreck of the White Star Liner Titanic 2012-04-11T16:45:03.663Z “And thousands, like me, will even remember that they heard the stupefying event — a roar so ridiculously titanic that fans around the first green couldn’t fathom its cause.” Double eagle for Louis Oosthuizen doesn?t trump a green jacket 2012-04-09T17:13:35Z In the presence of this stupefying disaster, we enter a plea for the exercise by Congress of a calm and judicial spirit in all legislative action which may be taken. From the Archive, A View from 1912: Scientific American on the Loss of the Titanic 2012-04-09T11:15:00.457Z They are, however, covered with innumerable flowers, which smell very sweet; but in the long-run this becomes very stupefying, and I distinctly felt the oppression of the atmosphere, in spite of the fine weather. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Fortunately, baseball is preparing to replace its stupefying franchise auction news with an actual baseball season. Leading Off: The Accidental Billionaire 2012-03-28T14:36:55Z This consists of applying to the trunks of trees or to strips of cloth attached to the trees some sweet, attractive, and stupefying preparation. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z A stupefying narrative in its horrid realism and sympathetic handling. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The three men crept noiselessly to the awning beneath which the French sailors lay breathing stertorously under the stupefying influence of the strong narcotic. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z All the Poisons of this Class prove mortal rather from a narcotic, or stupefying, than from an acrid, or very sharp Quality. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z This I made plain to Mr. Weaver, then relapsed into a dull inspection of his horn spectacles as he discoursed of mortgages and bonds and interests and liens with stupefying monotony. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Various traps have been devised, which comprise a lamp with apparatus for retaining and stupefying the insects attracted to the light. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z How it has been flouted since the days of Rousseau—the father of false romanticism and that stupefying legend, the "equality" of mankind. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In and of itself, this reality was stupefying. Exhausted Writer Discovers First Cave Painting of Yeast 2012-02-21T18:15:11.577Z Dr. Palmer writes that they bruise and boil the root in water, and when the infusion thus made is cold, they drink it to produce a stupefying effect. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The unexpected blow was paralysing--stupefying with overwhelming sweep; and No-Kami, who saw with delight that the bolt went home, motioned for the condemned to be removed. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It's great, but a little stupefying till one gets used to it. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z They had four or five canoes, and a large quantity of barbasco; a root which has the property of stupefying, or intoxicating, the fish. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z “It’s really stupefying to see the number of Chinese tourists in Paris,” Gould said. Tourism Seen Adding $850 Billion With Obama’s New Visas: Retail 2012-01-31T13:13:40Z “For Old Eli” had been a failure, a flat, appalling, stupefying failure. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z Any one expecting the usual stupefying draught, would be disappointed at getting another instead. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Incubus, in′kū-bus, n. the nightmare: a male demon formerly supposed to consort with women in their sleep: any oppressive or stupefying influence:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z “They said ‘market price,’ ” gasps a character on “Community,” the NBC comedy, as he weeps over a stupefyingly high restaurant bill. The Haggler: At Nello, a Case of Restaurant Bill Shock ? the Haggler 2012-01-07T21:10:06Z All the accessories were frightful, stupefying, maddening! yet I could utter no complaint, nor was I able to resist my captors. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z What is melodrama but burlesque of incidents and of passions, fatiguing to the eye and stupefying to the intellect? A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z There are more than 2,500 NFL roster spots available during training camp, and how a team didn't decide Browner was worth at least a look in the previous four years is stupefying. What the Seahawks gleaned from Monday night win 2011-12-14T05:00:05Z Its musicianship—the sheer technical artistry which contrived it—is stupefying in its enormous and inerrant mastery. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z At the conclusion of the lecture he said that surely the chimneys might fall any minute, but, for all, they might stand a hundred years; a criticism almost stupefying in its width of outlook. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z But in this case, the "fee" was a third of the size of the transaction — a stupefying amount given that a typical fee is about 1% of the deal's size. Olympus CEO scandal 2011-10-28T16:00:00Z The appearance of Lydia, therefore, in the procession wearing the yellow veil was all the more a stupefying surprise to him. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z With all the nutty, quirky things that happen in baseball, it’s hard to manage something truly stupefying. Bats: Leading Off: The Base That Roared 2011-10-14T15:11:40Z He read them with greed, but it was plain that he found their information stupefying. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z New Jersey went on a stupefying run in the second half last year. Washington Capitals are twirling, twirling toward freedom 2011-09-27T16:59:41Z And the next thing that occurred was—was almost—stupefying. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z For a few moments he stared sulkily at his companion, then he settled himself against the cushion, and his mind appeared to be groping its way out of stupefying fumes. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z As the day wore on the men who had been asleep in the inner chamber arose, staggeringly, as if still under the stupefying influence of opium, 155 and made their trembling way outside. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z At each of the four corners of the platform burns a fragrant censer—huge basins of chased gold—which envelop the whole concourse in a stupefying cloud of fragrant vapour. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Powerless profession, dead routine, stupefying mechanical religiousness, are the order of the day. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Government officials rewarded imprudent institutions with stupefying amounts of free money. Fair Game: The Fed?s Rescue Missed Main Street 2011-08-27T18:24:02Z "It is beyond amazing, astounding, stupefying, incredible, jaw-dropping, it is beyond all of that," Lee said of the spending by campaigns and groups. Historic Wisconsin recalls boil to a head with votes 2011-08-06T17:34:08Z It enabled them to rally to their aid the tremendous and stupefying aid of religion and to place rebellion to their orders on the same level as rebellion against God. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z Speaking on Newsnight, novelist Will Self said Londoners perceive the games as "elitist, exclusive and stupefying". VIDEO: Will Self on 'elitist' Olympics 2011-07-27T00:46:05Z Clemens, listing incriminating physical evidence of stupefying quantity to support its perjury charges, I was ready to bake Roger a large cake with a hacksaw inside it. Boswell: There will be no winners in Clemens perjury trial 2011-07-14T00:43:25Z The stupefying news was broken to her on the very day of Gitl's arrival. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z The meaning was too big and stupefying to be grasped at once. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Once falling away into slumber, the very motion of the vessel made that slumber more intense and stupefying, old Mother Nature rocking her children somewhat roughly in the "cradle of the deep." The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Very frequently it is spent in war, or else in stupefying luxury, twice hurtful, both in being indulged by the rich and witnessed by the poor. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z She strove patiently and without complaint, but in a stupefying welter of confusion. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z A gentle hissing sound, repeated at short intervals, announced that the Germans were injecting the stupefying fumes by means of a bellows. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z She, the bride, had seemed to see nothing stupefying in his action in going off with Captain Ross when the warning came through. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z August—with its stupefying surprises, disappointments, and acrimonies—drew to a close. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z When she drew the mirror of polished bronze from her girdle, she looked at herself in it for the last time before giving it to the priest, and the brilliancy of her eyes became stupefying. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z On the night of the murder—that wild and stormy Christmas Eve—Jasper brought Edwin into the churchyard on some pretext, after partially stupefying him with the ‘good stuff’ which affects the brain so speedily. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z English food— "Thick stupefying beer, meat almost raw and horribly spiced; strong libations of port wine, followed by plum-pudding—such is the meat of these islanders." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Living for the eyes of our neighbors is stupefying and belittling. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z In its stupefying size, its brilliant utilitarianism, and, most of all, in its mildly vulgar grandeur, it seems to me to express, exactly, the city to which it is a gate. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Three times he pressed the trigger, filling the box with stupefying gas. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z An attempt constantly to direct him can only result in stupefying him. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z But it was the wearing, irritating, exciting, yet stupefying progress of a lawsuit which had a painful and distressing effect upon his mind. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z We know that all dynasties are but broods of vampires; we must reassure the friends of liberty; we must destroy this talisman, whose magic power is still capable of stupefying so many. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Then the room filled with smoke—heavy, aromatic, and stupefying. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z The night air struck upon his hot brow in a cool and welcome fashion, and Jack stood for a moment or two, fighting with the hazy and stupefying effects of the night’s work. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z "Perhaps I am peculiarly susceptible to stupefying influences," said Mr. Diamond, with a rueful shake of the head. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z Stronger drink, much stronger, now became his refuge, and in stupefying his brain he stultified his conscience. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z The smell of the honeysuckle and the early cottage roses seemed suddenly almost stupefying. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z What mesmerises me is the cast of mind that finds such a stupefying mass of information somehow vital to communicate to the world. All the crime map shows up is Whitehall's pointless zest for data 2011-02-03T20:30:01Z If only they could realise the bird-life and what it meant—care-less, happy, singing, dancing; deep purpose underneath it all, but that purpose not clogged with the stupefying detail of unimportant items. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z She felt as though breath and consciousness were forsaking her; then, vivid as lightning, with a blinding, stupefying shock, the truth flashed upon her. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Without making a single motion, without experiencing a shiver, without dropping a tear, petrified with terror, the lad gazed—like him, who, a prey to some stupefying dream, remains motionless, stretched upon his bed. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z It had seemed to him that the world could hold no greater horror than he was already suffering, but the sound to which they listened was paralysing, hideous, stupefying. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The thought that every evening and every town in the Midi was like this in cherry time was stupefying. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Hurriedly unfastening it, he said to his collapsed companion—or, rather shouted, because the din created by the breakers was almost stupefying: “Are you able to hold this?” His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Both the length and the amount of the contract were stupefying given McIlvaine’s production his first two years in the N.B.A. Off the Dribble: Keeping Score: The Bad Contract 2011-01-20T22:00:23Z It is said I wink at precocious debauchery among my children with the view of unnerving and stupefying them. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z That such a stupefyingly beautiful place could be ruined by throngs of visitors is one of the great scandals of global travel. Heaven and hell in the Phi Phi Islands 2011-01-19T17:01:00Z After two stupefyingly dull draws at Brisbane and Perth, the third Ashes Test was a washout. Forty years of one-day international cricket 2011-01-18T12:43:10Z The ceaseless warping and working of what was left of the ship presaged complete collapse at any moment, and the din of the reef was stupefying. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The house-boy took his shoes and gave him straw sandals, afterward leading him through a series of doors to a corridor where the rich, stupefying odor of opium saturated the atmosphere. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Never have I tasted a sweeter, a more intoxicating, more stupefying liquor! Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z And it was a stupefying sight, those two beings, clinging to each other, lying motionless in the pale dawn that began to mingle with the shades of the night. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z During the course of that day, a catalogue of counter evidence was heard which turned this already stupefying sporting saga into one of even greater drama and intrigue. Liverpool sale: Fans have new heroes after victory in the high court 2010-10-13T11:44:00Z At a time when religion is becoming ever more conformist and intolerant, the diverse and syncretic world of the Indian subcontinent offers a stupefying spectrum of surviving sects and practices. Book Review - Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - By William Dalrymple 2010-07-16T18:18:00Z Prosperity in Sudan Wins Votes for a Leader Reviled Elsewhere TABGA, Sudan — From the highway, this farming village looks like yet another poor, mud-walled settlement baking in the stupefying heat. Prosperity in Sudan Wins Votes for Leader, Bashir 2010-04-15T00:49:00Z Had they succeeded in stupefying me with wine, I am quite certain they would have robbed me of the note for two-thousand thalers, which I always carried with me. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z It would be stupefying if there were not an end to the recession in time to recover lost growth over the next four years. 2010-01-14T15:04:00Z Then, as the curses and ribaldry died away, he emerged slowly as from beneath a stupefying load. A Cursory History of Swearing But the thought of my mother, of my father's disappearance, and the stupefying clink on my nose, all taken together, made me wild to be at somebody. Deep Moat Grange A stupefying horror at first pervaded my faculties: I sunk into a chair, and, but for the officious attentions of Mary, should have experienced a total—happy had it been a lasting insensibility! The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I Languages are not things that exist in water-tight compartments; each one illuminates the other and—unless it is taught with stupefying stupidity—leads on to others. The Salvaging Of Civilisation There are many stones, both found in nature and made by art, which have the power of stupefying. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments I accepted it as I had to accept her various revelations of stupefying obtuseness, and smiled over the sandy mouthful. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece In the meanwhile, the wine, hippocras, and the stupefying burnt perfumes were already having a perceptible effect upon those gathered within the temple. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity The three chief alkaloid constituents of opium are morphine, narcotine, thebaine, of which the first is the principle peculiar to the poppy, and gives it its stupefying power. A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade That was stupefying if he really hated Mona; and if he didn't really hate her what had brought him to Raphael Road and to Maggie's? The Spoils of Poynton Whatever apparent disorder there might have been in the works, the store department is as clean as a new pin, and stupefying in its naval order. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel That was all, with its touch of experience and its hint of philosophy; but it was stupefying. The Sacred Fount At the same time a strange, sweet odour filled the air, half stupefying me. The Induna's Wife And now they were out of the wild uproar of the storming waters outside, and in an almost stupefying silence. The Door into Infinity Similar stupefying pictures of social life in many other cities may be gleaned from chronicles, history, and sermons. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) A look of almost stupefying fear crossed his face. The Lost Warship Chet came from the stupefying wonder that had claimed them all and sprang to shield the group from the steady advance. Brood of the Dark Moon And now I noticed that the same strange, sweet, stupefying odour, though much fainter, was with me as I ran. The Induna's Wife The next instant she ceased, incredibly, to move—hung motionless in that resistless surge, an amazing, stupefying spectacle. The Destroying Angel Now that his stock was running low, perhaps his selfishness forbade any bestowal of the drug on another; or, perhaps, his trained eye told him that the further stupefying of her would react dangerously. When the Cock Crows As I entered, such a stupefying odor of roses, pinks, and hyacinths greeted me that I almost lost my senses. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace Chet had been nerved to the point of destroying his companions and himself; the revulsion of feeling that victory brought was more stupefying than the threat of impending defeat. Brood of the Dark Moon A stupefying one it seemed, for Mr. Ferris, pausing in his approach, looked at the cluster of persons about the bed, and then drew his hand across his eyes like a man in a maze. Hand and Ring Its spirit now appeared, discharging among them poisonous gases, before whose stupefying influence they fell helpless to the ground. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It were almost as hopeless a task to attempt to arouse, alarm and animate them, so long as they repose under the stupefying effects of this poison, as to raise the dead. Thoughts on African Colonization Is it possible to deodorize a word which comes to us redolent of "good, thick stupefying incense-smoke," mingled with the reek of the auto-da-fé? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Only some such stupefying shock as the effect of the shattered control could have checked Schwartzmann. Brood of the Dark Moon I must suppose you had some object in the stupefying impudence of your proceedings, and I confess I have a curiosity to know it.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) Day by day, night after night, that insidious kindness, that penetrating gentleness, 343that stupefying atmosphere of a woman’s care and sympathy.... Aurora the Magnificent He was tired, and the still heat of noon had a stupefying effect. Anything Once More and more stupefying, the uniform was not Republican, but Imperialist. The Missourian No satirist has ever struck off happier portraits of the ordinary British legislator, or been more alive to the stupefying influences of a parliamentary career. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She had the aspect of a conjuror who, with a last light puff of breath or touch of a magic finger, puts forth the final resource of a stupefying dexterity. Tante The girl in the doorway in some stupefying fashion represented the “Fight” and the “Puddle” of Northrup’s adventure. At the Crossroads Vaguely, for the stupefying, brain-numbing heat, he wondered at the figure he saw dimly in its grotesque posturing close to the flames. Two Thousand Miles Below The gorgeousness of this larger room into which he entered was almost stupefying. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Winslow was the first to recover from the stupefying beauty of the spectacle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The catastrophe, coming on top of all that had gone before, was a death blow, stupefying, stupendous, and hopelessly irremediable. The Plunderer Changes in the temperature and movement of the air are, no doubt, important in securing a healthful physiological reaction, but air contaminated and befouled by bodies and lungs has stupefying effects which cannot be ignored. Rural Life and the Rural School A stupefying draught was offered him; but he refused it, apparently preferring to look death calmly in the face. The Centurion's Story The fury of his toil forced him to breathe deeply, cleansing his lungs of the stupefying gas which, because it was visible as a vapor, had been carried in the rocket-ship. Invasion He was a brave man, but the cloud of doubt had been stupefying. The Traitors It is evident that some porter is more heady than others, and this arises from the greater or less quantity of stupefying ingredients intermixed with it. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families A stupefying warmth from the heating apparatus impelled slumber. A Nest of Spies They were spreading from their central citadels in ominous, expanding circles—circles that engulfed villages, towns and cities in a swift, relentless ring of annihilation that was fairly stupefying. Spawn of the Comet They brought up with a stupefying slam against the wall of the pig-pen, making the pig squeal apprehensively. The Backwoodsmen And the ladies—not the women and gentlewomen—are worse than the men in thus stupefying themselves and those around them. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The rich, stupefying odor of opium tainted the heavy air. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China You remember how stupefying the news of its surrender. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field This announcement was stupefying enough to over-shadow all other news of the day, and satisfied the most jaded palate for sensationalism. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life That was how this girl's face, that was not beautiful, contrived to give an impression of strange beauty, fascinating and stupefying as her voice. The Combined Maze It had occurred but a few hours when the tidings of it struck our city with stunning, stupefying, and deeply saddening blow. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The return to activity is announced exactly in the same fashion and in the same order as after the stupefying effect of ether. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles And then we will no more be rack'd With inward striving, and demand Of all the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold The first stupefying effect of their eviction from the peasant life is passing away, and they are setting their faces towards the future, to find a new way of life. Change in the Village Bits of the ensuing conversation came back to her, memories of the sickening rage, the stupefying bewilderment that possessed her, and the exhaustion that followed. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. What is theosophy, but the stupefying philosophy and the benumbing metaphysics of the East, clothed in its own garb of Oriental mysticism and senseless, spurious occultism. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ For horizontal surfaces it is better because it is there always an ellipse to vision, and the ellipse has a less dull and stupefying effect. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Very frequently it is spent in war, or else in a stupefying luxury, twice hurtful, both in being indulged by the rich and witnessed by the poor. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing To the rest of the school the whole affair was so unexpected as to be stupefying. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns A feeling of nausea, due either to the motion, the hot, confined air, or the after effects of the stupefying injection—perhaps a little of all three—was still present. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War He does not think that a vegetable decoction in which they are washed has a stupefying effect, as has been supposed by some. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 "Making a caricature of yourself, and stupefying your senses, are among the pleasures you are the fondest of driving at." The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck The tragedy was stupefying—it was unthinkable—it was the mockery of Fate! The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Then came the wedding party, magnificent, radiant, resplendent with the glittering jewels of the Orient, dazzling with gorgeousness, stupefying and miraculous in its revelation of beauty. In Our Town I wish, mothers could be made to substitute it for paregoric and the like stupefying stuff, to procure their crying infants relief and themselves rest. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Even in these refuges the stupefying effects of the gases allowed themselves to be felt, and weakened the fighting value of the garrison. World's War Events, Vol. I It was staggering, stupefying, and her brain reeled under it. 'Drag' Harlan The mass of logs and ice, and all the incalculable weight of imprisoned waters hurled themselves together over the brink with a stupefying crash, and throbbing volumes of spray leapt skyward. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life It had been the custom of wealthy ladies in Jerusalem to provide this stupefying potion at their own expense, and they did so quite irrespectively of their sympathy for any individual criminal. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 A stupefying, deadening odour of decayed flowers struck them in the face. The Goose Man Every species is as prolific as it can be compatibly with the development of its individuals; and the deaths that ensue from inanition, disease, violence, present a stupefying scene. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative He saw Gervase evidently under the influence of some stupefying spell. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 This heavy silence, impenetrable and deathly, was more stupefying than the frightful uproar that we had heard when the water first rushed in. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille It was as though their profession affected them the way that living in a close, dark room would, stupefying and making them bestial. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 "For me to be arrested there would have to be a conjunction of such unlikely circumstances, a series of such stupefying pieces of ill-luck, that I cannot admit the possibility." The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective Ecclesiastics, those of them who know their business, build altars in dim recesses of vast buildings, light them with flickering tapers, and fill the air with clouds of stupefying incense smoke. Gossamer 1915 He struggled hard for a few seconds, then the stupefying drug did its work, and he lay still, with quivering limbs. The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger To these were added on occasion stupefying and disorderly enjoyment, and when the basest demands were made on him he had to be indifferent to all morals. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Then it was that, in her silence, he read a despair too deep, too sudden, too stupefying for expression—a despair scarcely yet understood. Lorraine A romance That Bivens should fall hopelessly and blindly in love with Nan at first sight was too stupefying to be grasped at once. The Root of Evil Even a three days' old copy of the Weekly Freeman had brought him no more than a series of stupefying yawns. General John Regan Only the stupefying wonder of it possessed her, dulling her senses so that even the happiness of it seemed unreal. Special Messenger The warmth and peace of the kitchen were almost stupefying. Moor Fires The blackness was stupefying; the thud of his own heart seemed to fill the shrouded forest like the roll of a muffled drum. Lorraine A romance There was something painful and stupefying in the spell which she threw over his senses. The Root of Evil If the result were so hideous as to astonish even those who had watched the process of his make-up, what wonder that the effect upon Shylock’s fond parents was of a stupefying nature! About Peggy Saville But always at dawn the sun burned off the mist, rising in stupefying splendor; the oily river glided on; not a leaf moved, not a creature. Special Messenger Hence, to go one step farther, the stupefying of so many minds in our schools. The Education of American Girls The thought was stupefying, but even as it passed through my brain, I realised that no word of her own had been responsible for my conviction that her husband was dead. The Lady of the Basement Flat She had a yearning chronic To try each novel tonic, Elixir, panacea, lotion, opiate, and balm; And from a homœopathist Would change to an hydropathist, And back again, with stupefying calm! Grimm Tales Made Gay The argument will hardly hold good, for the Greek word translated "gall" can also signify a stupefying drug, and thus Matt. and Mark agree. The Books of the New Testament The freedom of her manners continued to be stupefying; there was nothing so extraordinary save the absence in connection with it of any catastrophe. Embarrassments No faint sweetness now, but an overpowering scent similar to that of the well-known "moon-lilies" but infinitely stronger, and stupefying to a degree. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa She talked of the man in the present case, as though he were alive, as though—stupefying thought!—Charmion was not a widow after all! The Lady of the Basement Flat Why should I, more than the others, remain uninfluenced by the usual processes of blunting, and grinding down, and stupefying, till one grows accustomed to one’s function, one’s intolerable function?” The Daughters of Danaus But, as soon as He tasted it and felt the fumes of the stupefying ingredient, He laid it down and would not drink. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Before that it had puzzled him; it had amazed him; his relations with her were bewildering, stupefying. Georgina's Reasons At that moment I heard an explosion, then a roar, as if proceeding from ten millions of buffalo-bulls—so stunning, so stupefying was the sound from the mass of animals, not twenty yards from us. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Who," she asked her hearers, "shall compute the stupefying and brutalizing effects of such religion? The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert In both the revulsion of feeling caused by the interruption was almost stupefying, and they stood for a moment staring at the intruders in simple bewilderment. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch We were captured by one of Nalboon's raiding parties while upon a hunting trip, being overcome by some new, stupefying gas, so that we could not kill ourselves. The Skylark of Space Nadia had been tossed out into pure air, beyond the zone of the stupefying perfume, and she recovered her senses in time to see the finish of the battle. Spacehounds of IPC This way out consists in refusing to enter into the army, before one is subjected to the stupefying and corrupting influence of discipline. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Now who shall compute the stupefying and brutalising effects of such a religion? The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert It was this constant delving for truth which produced that bright, acute Jewish mind, which in days of fanaticism and intolerance, protected the despised people from stupefying mental decay. Rabbi and Priest A Story As the hindrances and limitations of centuries of sin's warping and stupefying are gradually lessened there is a freer better channel for the through-flowing of His power. Quiet Talks on Power Expect caprices, surprises, stupefying, bewildering things, the most unexpected combinations of words, the most fearless cacophony? Napoleon the Little It was one of the malefactors begging for a stupefying potion to stay his torment. The Coming of the King After a minute that stupefying fact became equally clear. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue It is as though the practice of religion had a stupefying effect on them, whereas in other areas of living they are intelligent, informed, and perceptive. Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. Then came the rain:—not in mere drops, but in a solid sheet of water, blinding, drenching, stupefying. The Great Amulet Place a Forum or an Acropolis in its centre, and the effect of the metropolitan mass, which now has neither head nor heart, instead of being stupefying, would be ennobling. Tancred Or, The New Crusade She was a highly kissable person, and women would embrace her readily, but the total absence of any milk-and-water convention about Curtis's method of showing delight at meeting her was at once bewildering and stupefying. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York The magistrate's voice seemed to the bewildered man to roll on like a wheel over stones; interminable, grinding, stupefying. By What Authority? He was still scrupulously considerate, almost too scrupulously tender; but with a tinge of lassitude, like a man who tries to keep up under the stupefying approach of illness. The Fruit of the Tree The flashing, long-lashed eyes, the red lips, the coils on coils of fluffy hair, the swishing silk, unfamiliar furs, sparkling jewels, and the slender French heels were stupefying. The She Boss A Western Story Even the buoyant life of the young girl seemed to feel the stupefying weight of the prairie's deep repose. The Emigrant Trail At first, he could hardly believe his ears, but some resemblance in the portly Curtis to his own father warned him that this night of nights had not yet exhausted its store of stupefying surprises. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York Organization is only good as a means; it is stupefying as an end. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View One cannot fail to realize the stupefying horrors of such a deep and overwhelming national calamity. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Again, they were close—sometimes six or seven in sight at once—as they spun like huge tops, sucking up everything loose in their path, and whirling it round and round with stupefying rapidity. The She Boss A Western Story There is nothing more stupefying to the mind, or more fatal to interest in school work than the halting, stumbling, ineffective recitations heard in many schools. The Recitation They exercised a bewildering and stupefying influence on my mind, from which the meditations of an hour were scarcely sufficient to relieve me. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 In respect to days when to show a head above a trench meant death the thing was stupefying, incredible. My Second Year of the War He erects shrines to his ideals, and he burns upon them good, strong, stupefying incense. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z My own losses are almost stupefying; and something dead within myself looks with sightless eyes on death; with groping hands I touch it sometimes, and then I know that I am dead also. My War Experiences in Two Continents Considering the rarity of the Oak Eggar, and remembering the years of fruitless search on the part of my helpers and myself, this number was no less than stupefying. Social Life in the Insect World Hours of stupefying depression were followed by fits of irritability that frightened her. The Helpmate The miserable woman who pretended to assist me in watching, had taken some stupefying potion, and I watched alone, as David expressed it, longing for the first ray of the morning. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Sheer instinct altered at once the motion of my hand so as to incline the bows of the dinghy away from the shore; but a sort of stupefying amazement seized upon my soul. Romance The slave-girls, too, censed her all around with stupefying perfumes, bathed her in warm baths fragrant with ambergris and spikenard, and gave her fiery potions to drink. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul The monstrous audacity of the proceedings, and the business-like way in which they were conducted, were almost stupefying. Berry And Co. In a week the provider came to them bringing more food and drink, but warned them not to drink of the fountain, as its waters were stupefying. Brendan's Fabulous Voyage A Lecture delivered on January 19, 1893, before the Scottish Society of Literature and Art Occupations that are stupefying, not in themselves, but because of the insipid companionship. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 What could be more stupefying than to shut yourself up in a closet and swallow your own gas? Anthropology Here is a colony of white ants, whose activity is staggering, bewildering, stupefying. Atlantis P: With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side The cruel ropes bit into his flesh and increased his agony, while the acrid fumes from the seething acid were slowly stupefying that keen brain of his. The Master Mystery The expedition paused, collected itself, went forward; halted again, again attempted to move, and came at last to a definite standstill in whirling snow-clouds and blinding, stupefying blasts. A Man's Woman It was amazing, stupefying, annihilating, but it was true. The Lost Lady of Lone His jaw dropped and a look of stupefying terror stamped itself upon Shaynon's face. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Storm after storm of agony and doubt swept her; she prayed convulsively, at random, reiterating incoherence in blind, frightened repetition till the stupefying sequence lost all meaning. The Firing Line The Puranas say that for stupefying the wives of certain ascetics, Mahadeva became nude on one occasion. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 That terrible battle, capable of stupefying the three worlds, is at hand. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The effects of malt liquors are more stupefying than those of ardent spirits, and less easily removed. Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City It may be spent "in a stupefying luxury twice harmful both in being indulged in by the rich and witnessed by the poor." Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War On, on, endlessly struggling onward in the thickening darkness, year after year, the sky a lowering horror, the forest, no longer silent, a twisting, stupefying confusion of sound, growing, increasing, breaking into a hellish clamour!— The Firing Line Courage, duty, reparation—the words drummed in his brain, stupefying him with their dull clamour; but he understood and listened, knowing the end—knowing that the end must always be the same for him. The Younger Set While lying stretched for rest at the bottom of the lake after stupefying its waters, Duryodhana was approached by the Pandavas with Krishna and pierced by them with their cruel words. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 But he did not realise the stupefying effect of this bang on the heart till he had thus sat at her little feet and drunk in her godlike wisdom. Jaffery Worse, that men who had gleaned should be permitted to smother such precious knowledge in the stupefying fumes of whiskey. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories When the opera was produced the effect on the audience was certainly overwhelming, almost stupefying. Wagner That meant work—the hard, incessant, blinding, stupefying work which stuns thought and makes such a life endurable. The Younger Set Having said these words, O tiger among kings, the valiant son of Drona let off that weapon for stupefying all the worlds. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 In truth all these mid-century American heretics were not heretics at all in relation to really stupefying and perverting American tradition. The Promise of American Life Science goes all to pieces on the question of this inexplicable, stupefying malady, which, consequently, is subject to the most diversified interpretations, not one of which can be declared exact. Là-bas At last he had finished his stupefying tale; they sat side by side staring into each other's eyes, helpless, stricken. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Incidents follow one another with a wild and stupefying rapidity. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Sometimes adopting the right mandala, sometimes the left mandala, and sometimes the motion called Gomutraka, the son of Pandu began to career, O king, stupefying his foe. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Every evening, at the hour of seven, through its ground-floor window it offered to the world a scene of stupefying brilliance. The Divine Fire For the rest of that day he lay motionless on the bed, smoking pipe after pipe in the hope of stupefying himself with tobacco fumes. The Hill of Dreams Sheer noise, stupefying, abominable, incredible, unending, greeted the birth of the New Year; they were dancing in circles, singing, cheering amid the crash of glasses. The Common Law This sententiousness is consistent, on Mr. Channing's part, with the most stupefying ignorance of words and things, as in the sentence, "forced to conceal the raveled sleeve of care by buttoning up his outer garments." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 And then Drona's son, with good care, stupefying Arjuna in that battle, shot thousands and tens of thousands and millions of arrows. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The bands belonging to the different booths tried to play each other down, forming a stupefying charivari, with tributary processions that quite overflowed the city. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories When Tsvyetkov went up to her, and through the twilight glanced at her pale face, exhausted with grief, her expression was such as he had seen before during her attacks of acute, stupefying, sick headache. Love They were grinding away at their stupefying monotonous tasks as though the miracle of spring were not taking place before their eyes. Hillsboro People They will again take up their eternal mission of stupefying the great conscious forces, and turning them aside from their ends. Light But, of all misbehaviour, none is comparable to that of those who come here to sleep; opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 The first rumour that Braiding had done what in him lay to meet the need spread through the kitchens of the Albany like a new gospel, incredible and stupefying—but which imposed itself. The Pretty Lady The Comprachicos deadened the little patient by means of a stupefying powder which was thought to be magical, and suppressed all pain. The Man Who Laughs The impression left upon the latter by this visit was stupefying. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera He had also been the first to divulge, if not to signal the impressive influence of fear which acts on the will like an anæsthetic, paralyzing sensibility and like the curare, stupefying the nerves. Against the Grain Faint, almost reeling, I saw an iris-girl fall in convulsions; the stupefying smoke blew into my face, choking me. The Maid-At-Arms The success of such persons in stopping rain and hail and in stupefying snakes is proverbial. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul Benumbed with cold, weary in the search of a lost track, his senses yielding to the stupefying influence of frost, the unhappy man sinks upon the ground, and the snow-drift covers him from human sight. The Illustrated London Reading Book This kohobba powder is so strong that those who take it lose consciousness; when the stupefying action of the powder begins to wane, the arms and hands become loose and the head droops. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera But to Berkley nothing in the world seemed familiar any longer; and the strangeness of it, and the solitude were stupefying him. Ailsa Paige But he did not complete the astounding, stupefying sentence. The Man from Brodney's It would be vain to deny that to all idealists, of every shade of thought, the catastrophe came as a stupefying blow. The Trade Union Woman The stupefying recipe was known to all jailers, who, for a consideration, communicated it to prisoners. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 But this strange opiate did not produce the stupefying effects anticipated from it. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 There was something stupefying about the thought to her. The Bent Twig This news spread rapidly from Tivoli, where it occasioned a stupefying surprise. Wonderful Balloon Ascents The man was a stupid fellow by nature, and what wits he had were addled by the habit he had acquired of consuming patent-medicines containing alcohol, morphin, and other stimulating and stupefying drugs. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Harley says that the fakirs begin their performances by taking a large dose of the powerfully stupefying "bang," thus becoming narcotized. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine It was a stupefying statement, but one is obliged to believe the English, even when they say a thing like that. What Is Man? and Other Essays After stupefying Paul, as already described, he made his way downstairs, and, leaving his key at the desk, went out. Paul the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant The empiric's cure had been a sham, the effect, it was supposed, of some stupefying drug which more nearly caused the death of the patient than of the odious reptile that possessed him. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories When each is held apart from the other by fate, or will, or circumstance, the spell is a stupefying thing, deadening even the clearness of sight and wit. The Shuttle Here, too, we have an example of the efficiency of the older biblical theology in fettering the stronger minds and in stupefying the weaker. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom But the tension had been too stupefying while it lasted not to leave some mental effects behind it. Beasts and Super-Beasts He hated Mamma Valerius for giving him such news as that with such stupefying calmness. The Phantom of the Opera A curious and stupefying restlessness got possession of me. The Moonstone Nothing happened in the street, and every dull face that passed was an old story, and told an old tale of stupefying hard labour and hard days. The Shuttle Its archbishops have constantly shown themselves assiduous in securing cardinals' hats by thwarting science and by stupefying education. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom We have thus spoken freely of this man's stupefying simplicity and innocence, but we cannot deal similarly with his colossal ignorance. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories It was stupefying, brutalizing work; it left her no time to think, no strength for anything. The Jungle The maid—the plausible woman I had hired—put, doubtless, some stupefying potion in what I ate or drank, the morning I left town. Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Glimpses of their life there, children and work—stupefying, tremendous work—to keep them going and to meet the interest; he had been a giant in those days. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California |
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