paralyzed

Until the last couple of days, the opposition has seemed to be paralyzed, trying to get its bearings under the onslaught.

Several women alleged they became sick or paralyzed after Pearce served them a drink.

He’s the contented “Innie” to the miserable “Outie” version of himself, the one so paralyzed by his wife’s death that he chose to surgically divorce his work life from the mess of his personal time.

“Some are partially paralyzed,” I wrote, and “many are ghosts, their former selves barely visible in the shadows of unrelenting psychosis.”

As an Irish reporter who happened to be on her flight hurled questions at her, the mayor of the nation’s second-largest metropolis stood silent and seemingly paralyzed.