All 9 Uses
paralysis
in
Look Homeward, Angel
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- His mind, just emerging from the unreal wilderness of childish fancy, gave way completely in this Fair, and he was paralyzed by the conviction, which often returned to him in later years, that his life was a fabulous nightmare and that, by cunning and conspirate artifice, he had surrendered all his hope, belief, and confidence to the lewd torture of demons masked in human flesh.†
Chpt 1
- Now, he awoke in the dark, possessed by his terror and agony, for the whole right side of his body was paralyzed by such pain as he did not know existed.†
Chpt 1 *
- He gathered, from the slightly open paralysis that had frozen John Dorsey's and Sister Amy's face, that they were waiting too.†
Chpt 2
- Advancing upon him, an inch to the second, Eugene saw, ten feet away, the heavy paralyzed body of old Mr. Avery.†
Chpt 2
- It's the funniest thing I ever—" at this moment his voice died of paralysis.†
Chpt 2
- A slight paralysis had slowed her tongue and thickened her speech a little, so that she spoke deliberately, with a ponderous enunciation of each word.†
Chpt 2
- Then a divine paralysis crept through his flesh.†
Chpt 3
- But he was paralyzed.†
Chpt 3
- "Better," he mumbled, discovering, with some elation, that his vocal paralysis was not permanent.†
Chpt 3
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)