benumbed

The other is further indication that for all its wealth, industrial might and sophistication, the bloc remains benumbed, oblivious to its sclerotic arms production incapacity and content to continue outsourcing its mounting security needs to the United States.

Its importance may have been underestimated by a benumbed Supreme Court press, understandably focused on what is likely to be the Court’s decision.

I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession, an incident which would doubtless have occasioned some surprise had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty.

The region is, indeed, at a crossroads: The longer this perpetual emergency drags on, the more benumbed residents become to the problem and the greater the human suffering playing out on our region’s sidewalks, parks and greenbelts.

As friends and neighbors watch in silent awe, confused, benumbed, the father lowers the launcher and stage-growls the absolutely unnecessary: “It’s a boy.”