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Over those four days of starvation and indiscriminate thuggery, through twelve solitary periods of long stupefaction, I discovered doubt and personal recrimination, emotions about which I had previously known nothing
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Art Stupefaction conceals an inherent baseness common to affected styles and manners that is often lost on the casual observer, captivated as many of them are by erratic forms for their own sake without giving considered thought to their (social) implications; radical ―art‖ forms whose intended meaning, if any, are often unclear, its premises anti-social, tasteless, adolescent, absurd, valueless and immoral
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She shook her head in stupefaction and slumped into the recliner, confused but relishing the first warmth in the house for days
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The face of stupefaction and surprise with which the magician looked at me was equaled by mine, and before the disinclination showed by him and my desire to avoid the humiliation of a rejection for the sake of saving my pride, I babbled some excuses phrases that sprouted introverted and shy from my lips, like a cocoon that risks to find for the first time with the golden ribbons of the sun
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It was my first alcohol for years and I gazed down in stupefaction
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The following day Ethiopia drove me to Baalbek where my stupefaction at the colossal temple ruins of ancient Roman Heliopolis so entranced him that he asked me to live with him in Paris
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Two months later, howev-er, when Colonel Aureliano Buendía returned to Ma-condo, his upset was changed to stupefaction
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In their own transitory stupefaction, newbies will understand that all errors were their own, and that it wasn’t personal
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Hurd became almost silent with stupefaction
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Most of the children, including Sven, just stood in a state of stupefaction, watching in horror as their fathers were being killed
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Calragen snatched it up and turned to me in stupefaction
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Bought out of his stupefaction he almost bounded into action, he stood quickly and immediately turned his back
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Come on, Gustavo, the renewed newspapers will enable stupefaction as Dayna used to say, in a very subtle way
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unbearable without a certain dose of stupefaction! Since you’ve
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Like the dumb beasts of twisted perversion that they were, they stood in stupefaction as they were unable to access their ability to flee through dimensional time and thus they were left to face our wrath, which was far greater than any mortal could manifest on its own
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But the brute didn’t move, but instead another appeared beside it and then there were more and as one their stupefaction over his sudden appearance in the forest changed to open mouthed snarls of demented lunacy as they advanced on him in mass
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And his drowsiness and stupefaction were followed by an extraordinary, feverish, as it were distracted haste
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She was gazing in stupefaction at her murdered sister, white as a sheet and seeming not to have the strength to cry out
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"What is it?" cried Porfiry Petrovitch, recovering from his momentary stupefaction
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In spite of her triumph and her justification--when her first terror and stupefaction had passed and she could understand it all clearly--the feeling of her helplessness and of the wrong done to her made her heart throb with anguish and she was overcome with hysterical weeping
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Homais drew back with stupefaction
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They were all in a row gesticulating, and anger, vengeance, jealousy, terror, and stupefaction breathed forth at once from their half-opened mouths
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There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it
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This night was spent in a state of stupefaction, or desperation
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But long I was not suffered to remain in this state of stupefaction: the
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recovered at length, but into a state of stupefaction and despair, that
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The two young men looked at each other with an air of stupefaction
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And yet, in the midst of his stupefaction and apathy, his heart was pierced by a cruel thorn—the thought that he would pass under the windows of the good Fairy's house between the soldiers
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Having somewhat recovered from his first stupefaction, he asked
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This corroboration of the lesson he had just received put the finishing stroke to the wonder and stupefaction of M
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When he recovered from the stupefaction into which he was thrown by the perusal of this letter, his first thought was to seek out Slyme, but he found upon inquiring that the latter had left
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Valentine witnessed this scene with a sentiment of stupefaction
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Less than six months after the President-Dictator's visit, Sulaco learned with stupefaction of the military revolt in the name of national honour
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and stupefaction had passed and she could understand it all clearly—the feeling of her helplessness and of the wrong done to her made her heart throb with anguish and she was overcome with hysterical weeping
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A stupefaction had come into these features, to her regard; it meant the illness of her mother
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As at other moments of stupefaction, Pulaski’s instincts were what saved him
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But Raoul's stupefaction was so great that he stood there dumfounded, without a gesture, without a word
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It happened so quickly that the spectators hardly had time to utter a sound of stupefaction, for the gas at once lit up the stage again
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When the ceiling lit up and the forest became visible around us, the viscount's stupefaction was immense
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candor of her stupefaction
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The amazement, the anger, the stupefaction of Belshazzar when he saw the Mene-Tekel- Upharsin before his eyes is not to be compared with the cold rage of Grandet, who, having forgotten his nephew, now found him enshrined in the heart and calculations of his
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Two girls of about ten and twelve, dressed in dirty short frocks and cloaks, were staring at their mother with a look of stupefaction on their pale frightened faces
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overwhelmed, raised his head with an air of stupefaction
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Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision
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It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of kings, drew all the kingdoms after it—the fall of force, the defeat of
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Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction
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On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,—Ma'am Bougon observed, with stupefaction, that M
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To the silent stupefaction of the servants, the neighbors, the women friends who came to visit her during that time, she had a bonfire built in a vacant lot behind the house, and there she burned everything that reminded her of her husband: the most expensive and elegant clothes seen in the city since the last century, the finest shoes, the hats that resembled him more than his portraits, the siesta rocking chair from which he had arisen for the last time to die, innumerable objects so tied to her life that by now they formed part of her identity
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Savéliitch clasped his hands with a look of surprise and stupefaction impossible to describe
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‘What is it?’ cried Porfiry Petrovitch, recovering from his momentary stupefaction
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In spite of her triumph and her justification—when her first terror and stupefaction had passed and she could understand it all clearly—the feeling of her helplessness and of the wrong done to her made her heart throb with anguish and she was overcome with hysterical weeping
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The little gentleman had, however, vanished into the darkness, leaving the gentleman in the wadded overcoat in a state of stupefaction
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After wondering, as was only natural, and recovering at last from his stupefaction, he bethought him of his own affairs, and began walking to and fro, staring intently at the gates of a house with an endless number of storeys
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The young man wanted to ask a question, but the gentleman in raccoon vanished again; again he left his patient listener in a state of stupefaction
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"Why are you looking at me like that?" exclaimed the young man, shaking off his stupefaction and air of uncertainty with vexation
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It's a nightmare! God is against me!” he exclaimed, staring before him in complete stupefaction
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“Stop, heigh! What Sabaneyev?” the young man recovered from his momentary stupefaction and was as excited as before
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He made no reply, and to my stupefaction I saw that he was on the point of bursting into tears
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So sudden was it as to cause stupefaction; one could scarcely believe one's eyes or ears
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Our sergeant came and went in a puzzled, dazed sort of way, as if he could not get over his stupefaction at what had happened
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For the rest, he thought the dialectical part of his argument of little worth; he saw only too clearly that the result of these ecstatic moments was stupefaction, mental darkness, idiocy
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And this stutterer, won’t he turn out a murderer?” she cried, pointing to Burdovsky, who was staring at her with stupefaction
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Are you coming home, Ptitsin?” Hippolyte listened to this in amazement, almost amounting to stupefaction
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"Petrusha!" cried Stepan Trofimovitch, instantly roused from his stupefaction
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While the first stupefaction was passing over, while all present were regaining their powers of speech, were working themselves up into a fever of excitement, shouting and flying to conjectures and suppositions; while Ustinya Fyodorovna was pulling the box from under his bed, was rummaging in a fluster under the mattress and even in Semyon Ivanovitch's boots; while they cross-questioned Remnev and Zimoveykin, Okeanov, who had hitherto been the quietest, humblest, and least original of the lodgers, suddenly plucked up all his presence of mind and displayed all his latent talents, by taking up his hat and under cover of the general uproar slipping out of the flat
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Particularly evident is this necessity of the hypnotizing action upon men, in order to bring them to a state of stupefaction, in the activity of the Salvation Army, which uses new, unfamiliar methods of horns, drums, songs, banners, uniforms, processions, dances, tears, and dramatic attitudes
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities, from the money collected from the masses, and these, with the aid of painting, architecture, music, incense, but chiefly by the maintenance of the so-called clergy, stupefy the masses: their duty consists in this, that with their representations, the pathos of the services, their sermons, their interference in the private lives of the people,—at births, marriages, deaths,—they bedim the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
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The fourth means consists in this, that with the aid of the three preceding means there is segregated, from the men so fettered and stupefied, a certain small number of men, who are subjected to intensified methods of stupefaction and brutalization, and are turned into involuntary tools of all those cruelties and bestialities which the governments may need
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This stupefaction and brutalization is accomplished by taking the men at that youthful age when they have not yet had time to form any firm convictions in regard to morality, and, having removed them from all natural conditions of human life, from home, family, native district, rational labour, locking them all up together in narrow barracks, dressing them up in peculiar garments, and making them, under the influence of shouts, drums, music, glittering objects, perform daily exercises specially invented for the purpose, and thus inducing such a state of hypnosis in them that they cease to be men, and become unthinking machines, which are obedient to the command of the hypnotizer
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It is this delusion in regard to human inequality and the consequent intoxication of power and stupefaction of servility, which makes it possible for those who are associated in a state organization to commit crimes and suffer no remorse
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The religious superstition is encouraged by establishing, with money taken from the people, temples, processions, memorials, and festivals, which, aided by painting, architecture, music, and incense, intoxicate the people, and above all by the support of the clergy, whose duty consists in brutalizing the people and keeping them in a permanent state of stupefaction by their teaching, the solemnity of their services, their sermons, and their interference in private life—at births, deaths, and marriages
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Moreover, under every government without exception everything is kept back that might emancipate and everything encouraged that tends to corrupt the people, such as literary works tending to keep them in the barbarism of religious and patriotic superstition, all kinds of sensual amusements, spectacles, circuses, theaters, and even the physical means of inducing stupefaction, as tobacco and alcohol, which form the principal source of revenue of states
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The fourth method consists in selecting from all the men who have been stupefied and enslaved by the three former methods a certain number, exposing them to special and intensified means of stupefaction and brutalization, and so making them into a passive instrument for carrying out all the cruelties and brutalities needed by the government
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How can Men Allow that Murder is Permissible while they Preach Principles of Morality, and How can they Allow of the Existence in their Midst of a Military Organization of Physical Force which is a Constant Menace to Public Security?—It is only Allowed by the Upper Classes, who Profit by this Organization, Because their Privileges are Maintained by it—The Upper Classes Allow it, and the Lower Classes Carry it into Effect in Spite of their Consciousness of the Immorality of the Deeds of Violence, the More Readily Because Through the Arrangements of the Government the Moral Responsibility for such Deeds is Divided among a Great Number of Participants in it, and Everyone Throws the Responsibility on Someone Else—Moreover, the Sense of Moral Responsibility is Lost through the Delusion of Inequality, and the Consequent Intoxication of Power on the Part of Superiors, and Servility on the Part of Inferiors—The Condition of these Men, Acting against the Dictates of their Conscience, is Like that of Hypnotized Subjects Acting by Suggestion—The Difference between this Obedience to Government Suggestion, and Obedience to Public Opinion, and to the Guidance of Men of a Higher Moral Sense—The Existing Order of Society, which is the Result of an Extinct Public Opinion and is Inconsistent with the Already Existing Public Opinion of the Future, is only Maintained by the Stupefaction of the Conscience, Produced Spontaneously by Self-interest in the Upper Classes and Through Hypnotizing in the Lower Classes—The Conscience or the Common Sense of such Men may Awaken, and there are Examples of its Sudden Awakening, so that one can Never be Sure of the Deeds of Violence they are Prepared for—It Depends Entirely on the Point which the Sense of the Unlawfulness of Acts of Violence has Reached, and this Sense may Spontaneously Awaken in Men, or may be Reawakened by the Influence of Men of more Conscience
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But what was the amazement, the stupefaction and fury, what was the horror and the shame of Mr
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It need hardly be said that, after the first moment of stupefaction with which Mr
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Clutching his devoted head, he leaned against the wall in a state of stupefaction
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Soon it began to brighten into day, and the dawn found him in a state of stupefaction, lying motionless on his back
