| Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
| I was sitting around dwelling on how sad it is when it occurred to me that these small plane crashes happen with numbing frequency. |
| Becoming familiar with the pattern of the question paper helps overcome the numbing fear of examinations. |
| Outside, numbing blasts of icy air are hitting the trees and the frame house. |
| And that sickly-sweet music with birds chirping, water babbling, and the rush of wheat fields in the wind seemed brain numbing. |
| Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis. |
