All 6 Uses of
paralysis
in
War and Peace
- Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna Pavlovna's, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire paralyzed his will.†
Chpt 3
- …of relations, which is in place at court but harmful in an army; that a sovereign should reign but not command the army, and that the only way out of the position would be for the Emperor and his court to leave the army; that the mere presence of the Emperor paralyzed the action of fifty thousand men required to secure his personal safety, and that the worst commander in chief if independent would be better than the very best one trammeled by the presence and authority of the monarch.†
Chpt 9
- The doctor, who was fetched that same night, bled him and said that the prince had had a seizure paralyzing his right side.†
Chpt 10 *
- For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse.†
Chpt 10
- Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.†
Chpt 10
- Secondly it was impossible, because to paralyze the momentum with which Napoleon's army was retiring, incomparably greater forces than the Russians possessed would have been required.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision