stupefaction

How To Use stupefaction In A Sentence

• In any case, I wound up spending two weeks in a psychiatric clinic, drugged into oblivious stupefaction, until I checked myself out.
• Steil urinated, and watched in stupefaction how the upchucked sandwiches swayed gently on the water's surface. OUTCAST
• On the contrary, as all resistance whatsoever of the dictates of conscience, even in the way of natural efficiency, brings a kind of hardness and stupefaction upon it; so the resistance of these peculiar suggestions of the Spirit will cause in it also a judicial hardness, which is yet worse than the other. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
• To her parents' stupefaction, she announced her intention to leave the next day.
• Because of the drugs, he was in a state of stupefaction by the time we found him.
• Through the scene's plasticity and its magnificent editing mismatches, we clearly see that the event focuses all of Nick's anguish and suffering, giving a reality to his stupefaction.
• It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction.
• Those indications which the physicians receive, and those presagitions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, they receive and they give out of the grounds and the rules of their art; but we have no such rule or art to give a presagition of spiritual death and damnation upon any such indication as we see in any dying man; we see often enough to be sorry, but not to despair; we may be deceived both ways: we use to comfort ourself in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, without any reluctation; but God knows that may be accompanied with a dangerous damp and stupefaction, and insensibility of his present state. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• Just go back to doing the only thing you are capable of, which is sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction swallowing wholesale any and every idiotic lie that is spoon-fed to you by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully. Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
• Numerous art historians responded to Hockney's proposal with suspicious stupefaction, as if this avant-garde upstart were accusing the old masters of painting by numbers.