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The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out -- although that may have been because I found the music bland -- except for those based most directly on actual ragtime, which were much fresher than the over-wrought ballads and anthems of the rest.

Ragtime deliasherman 2010

Jan. 8th, 2010 04: 06 pm (UTC) "The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out ..."

Ragtime deliasherman 2010

But Benedict issued a warning to Internet users late last week, cautioning that the Web has "numbed" young people and created an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

Pope: Internet Has 'Numbed' Young People The Huffington Post 2010

But Benedict issued a warning to Internet users late last week, cautioning that the Web has "numbed" young people and created an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

Pope: Internet Has 'Numbed' Young People The Huffington Post 2010

But Benedict issued a warning to Internet users late last week, cautioning that the Web has "numbed" young people and created an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

Pope: Internet Has 'Numbed' Young People The Huffington Post News Team 2010

I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little.

Casting clues and possible solutions 2009

That confession was really unsettling for a while, now I'm just kind of numbed by it all.

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2005

That day, the chronicles tell us, he wore a kind of numbed look, but he also smiled.

Mexico Michener, James 1992

Cally had stood listening with a kind of numbed listlessness, ready to go at the first opportunity, now that the real purpose of the interview was discharged.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

And picking up her dainty skirt with one ungloved hand, on which two diamond rings shone like circlets of dew, she nodded, smiled, and went her way -- Innocent standing at the gate and watching her go with a kind of numbed patience as though she saw a figure in a dream vanishing slowly with the dawn of day.

Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889