All 5 Uses
paralysis
in
1984, by Orwell
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- He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
p. 22.1paralyzing = causing inability to achieve anything
- For a few seconds Winston was too paralyzed to move.
p. 100.9paralyzed = without the ability to move
- On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
p. 102.9 *paralyzed = made unable to move
- So, one evening every week, Winston spent four hours of paralyzing boredom, screwing together small bits of metal which were probably parts of bomb fuses, in a draughty, ill-lit workshop where the knocking of hammers mingled drearily with the music of the telescreens.†
p. 129.6
- He had slumped to his knees, almost paralyzed, clasping the stricken elbow with his other hand.
p. 239.2paralyzed = unable to move
Definitions:
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(1)
(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)