Word: numbingly
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...number of writers in the media have noticed that people have become numb to the negative information around them. The focus of the individual has moved inward to his own economic survival. Attaching that to some reference point in the outside world becomes too painful when all of the news is alarming...
...boyfriend whose quality is usually in some important way the opposite of the relationship that ended. So your husband was one of these demanding, angry type guys, and you got used to walking on eggshells. And amazingly, the next guy is really laid back. Or you had a sexually numb marriage and you haven't been in any kind of state of erotic awakening for longer than you can remember, and somewhere in there, your trainer starts to look good. It's someone who presents the aspect of the relationship that was an unmet need...
...recalled a talk show in which girls had discussed cutting themselves as a release, a way to relieve depression. "I was so numb," she said. "I just wanted to feel something - anything." So she took a knife from the kitchen and cut deeply into her left...
...never want to hear the words that come with such a phone call. "We are all wiped out." But they came, and we went numb. We lost, on paper, $1.2 million. My wife's family's combined losses are close to $30 million. We're talking old ladies and men, lawyers, children with Madoff trusts, students in college and an array of others who thought they had the world beat - and they did, at least for a time...
...Independent French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard is a little more skeptical of the report, however, at least as far as it claimed some of the fighters had used narcotics to numb themselves to pain as death approached. Though he understands the strategic logic of assailants using stimulants to overcome fatigue as their attack wears on - conventional armies, including the U.S. military, have used stimulants to counter combat fatigue - he does not believe the stern Salafist prohibition of soporifics would be ignored as the end loomed...