stupefaction in a sentence
Examples
- According to Laszlo Alexandru, the text enforces the reader's " indignant stupefaction " concerning Nedelciu's promotion by his peers.
- Harris began writing the book in what he described as a period of " collective grief and stupefaction " following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- His book on Marx and poetry, " Stupefaction : a radical anatomy of phantoms " was published by Seagull Books in May 2011.
- What too often emerges is little more than a headline, tied precariously to " visuals " that are repeated to the point of stupefaction.
- For over an hour the great writer plods through an aimless stream of self-absorbed fantasy, sending the audience into a state of complete stupefaction.
- "He could solve problems that seemed unsolvable in a way so elegant that you could only sit in absolute stupefaction, " van Nieuwenhuizen said.
- A train actually roared and panted by, and choked me with its filthy steam as I looked round in stupefaction on the ruins of my long-cherished hope ."
- Like cows, they stare at you with stupefaction, chewing on hay, their jaws rotating with agonizing steadiness and patience; you just know they'll never finish dinner.
- The board expressed its " stupefaction " at the judicial proceedings that, it said, " assimilate a company president with . . . a gangster ."
- The WBC, based in Mexico City, said it read Mundine's remarks " with stupefaction " and said it was dropping him indefinitely from the WBC ratings.