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It’s about seeing Scarlett and Bradley and Cate and who will dazzle, who will stupefy, whose attempt at sartorial splendor — remember Angelina’s right leg?

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2015

And sure I am that if they do not thus see themselves here and now, they will one day get shocks that will stupefy them.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

P: Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

The senses will grow dull, the tastes will stupefy, the enterprise will flicker out, and the days come in which your soul will say 'I have no pleasure in them.'

From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville