Example Sentences

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The Menendez brothers, simply and awfully, made for great television, when great is defined as that which we are paralytically helpless to turn away from.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2017

My progress from a weepy self-hating paralytically over-apologetic constantly worrying shy chick to a person who is quite the opposite is absolute testament to that, I believe.

From Time • Oct. 8, 2014

Once I play the first note of the first song, I'm fine, but before that, I can get paralytically afraid.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2014

Another old man sitting on his bed, paralytically peeling a boiled potato, lifts his head and stares.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

The intellect and the conscience became used to moving paralytically among visions, dreams, and mystic terrors, weighed down with torpor, abusing virile faculties for the suppression of truth and the perpetuation of revered error.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington