hebetude

Example Sentences

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He detested the mob for its human hebetude.

From Time Magazine Archive

So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summer alone could bring them together again—the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

The alternate delirium or coma and clearness of mind in meningitis contrast with the persistent hebetude, stupor, or muttering delirium and the muscular relaxation in typhoid fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Even in her dullest moments of physical and mental hebetude she felt something pressing upon her from within for accomplishment, like a piece of unfinished business that she must presently rouse herself to put through.

From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert