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    stupefaction


    1. 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


    2. 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


    3. She shook her head in stupefaction and slumped into the recliner, confused but relishing the first warmth in the house for days


    4. 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


    5. It was my first alcohol for years and I gazed down in stupefaction


    6. 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


    7. Two months later, howev-er, when Colonel Aureliano Buendía returned to Ma-condo, his upset was changed to stupefaction


    8. In their own transitory stupefaction, newbies will understand that all errors were their own, and that it wasn’t personal


    9. Hurd became almost silent with stupefaction


    10. Most of the children, including Sven, just stood in a state of stupefaction, watching in horror as their fathers were being killed

    11. Calragen snatched it up and turned to me in stupefaction


    12. Bought out of his stupefaction he almost bounded into action, he stood quickly and immediately turned his back


    13. Come on, Gustavo, the renewed newspapers will enable stupefaction as Dayna used to say, in a very subtle way


    14. unbearable without a certain dose of stupefaction! Since you’ve


    15. 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


    16. 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


    17. And his drowsiness and stupefaction were followed by an extraordinary, feverish, as it were distracted haste


    18. She was gazing in stupefaction at her murdered sister, white as a sheet and seeming not to have the strength to cry out


    19. "What is it?" cried Porfiry Petrovitch, recovering from his momentary stupefaction


    20. 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

    21. Homais drew back with stupefaction


    22. They were all in a row gesticulating, and anger, vengeance, jealousy, terror, and stupefaction breathed forth at once from their half-opened mouths


    23. 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


    24. This night was spent in a state of stupefaction, or desperation


    25. But long I was not suffered to remain in this state of stupefaction: the


    26. recovered at length, but into a state of stupefaction and despair, that


    27. The two young men looked at each other with an air of stupefaction


    28. 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


    29. Having somewhat recovered from his first stupefaction, he asked


    30. This corroboration of the lesson he had just received put the finishing stroke to the wonder and stupefaction of M

    31. 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


    32. Valentine witnessed this scene with a sentiment of stupefaction


    33. Less than six months after the President-Dictator's visit, Sulaco learned with stupefaction of the military revolt in the name of national honour


    34. 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


    35. A stupefaction had come into these features, to her regard; it meant the illness of her mother


    36. As at other moments of stupefaction, Pulaski’s instincts were what saved him


    37. But Raoul's stupefaction was so great that he stood there dumfounded, without a gesture, without a word


    38. 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


    39. When the ceiling lit up and the forest became visible around us, the viscount's stupefaction was immense


    40. candor of her stupefaction

    41. 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


    42. 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


    43. overwhelmed, raised his head with an air of stupefaction


    44. 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


    45. 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


    46. Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction


    47. 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


    48. 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


    49. She was gazing in stupefaction at her murdered sister, white as a sheet and seeming not to have 152 of 967


    50. Savéliitch clasped his hands with a look of surprise and stupefaction impossible to describe




























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    Synonyms for "stupefaction"

    stupefaction grogginess semiconsciousness stupor bewilderment puzzlement confusion distraction abashment embarrassment

    "stupefaction" definitions

    a feeling of stupefied astonishment


    marginal consciousness


    the action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic