How To Use Stupor In A Sentence

Profound stupor associated with depression also responds to IV sodium amobarbital, thus permitting conversation between the patient and examiner, which often reveals depressive symptoms. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The recent massacre in Acteal has forced the government to shake off its stupor, at least for a while.

Scooping his own jacket up, Shanza gave it a distracted shake and tossed it over his shoulders in a dazed stupor.
Then, in a minute, the Station relapsed into stupor as the stoker of the Cattle Train, the last to depart, went gliding out of it, wiping the long nose of his oil-can with a dirty pocket-handkerchief. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
She had had three experiences in which she had collapsed in a "drunken" stupor while driving her car. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
Meanwhile, back on the stoep, both men are rooted to their chairs in what appears to be a catatonic stupor.
Pauline went on to say that others, in a drunken stupor, regularly use the estate as a toilet and not just for urinating.
It happened one night when he returned from a family party in a drunken stupor, brandishing a shotgun and threatening to kill his wife and child.
And if it all gets too much you can munch yourself into a stupor by devouring zero-rated rum babas. Budget: VAT rise will add £33 to average shopping basket
Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
Eric obediently hands over his wallet; the drunk friend subsides into a stupor; but Ike Marcus gets "chesty," confronting their assailants with the brave and foolhardy formula "Not tonight, my man. In Priceland
Last year, a good portion of the responsible people of Dublin chose to drink themselves into a stupor.
I did end up drinking myself into a stupor - but it was in the middle of the room, and while talking to other people.
Billy was in a hungover stupor from Friday night, and he must have slept in his clothes because they smelled of stale beer and I saw talcum powder from the poolroom on his sleeves. The Convict and Other Stories
An uncomfortable feeling of fullness, or of dullness and stupor after a meal is a sure sign of over-eating, so whatever and whenever you eat, _eat slowly, masticate your food well_, and DO NOT EAT TOO MUCH. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Be
In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
There are also men who killed in a crazed fit or drunken stupor. Times, Sunday Times
a chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma-nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery, Finnegans Wake
Conclusion Nimotop treatment can diminish mortality, decrease the time of the stupor and cut down the disability rate for the primary in jury of brain-stem.
He continued in a kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or in bed; and did not attempt to speak for about a fortnight; and then gradually recovered. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The word Narcissus comes from the ancient Greek word narke which means a stupor.
Dinna ye ken, Nelly woman, his presence will vex you no longer? you're at liberty to go your own gate, and be as you have been -- that was his propine," whispered Lady Staneholme, in sorrowful perplexity, but without rousing Nelly from her stupor. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
A high-pitched yip released me from my sleep-like stupor.
Freddy let out a sharp bark of laughter, causing Carter to come out of his stupor.
Im sure mike is contemplating what little he can in his dying stupor. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Trek Fan’s Review Forum
The girls round the table chewed moonishly, wrapped in their morning stupor. Cider With Rosie
narcotic stupor
They have been disemployed by decisions of those who hold power in our society, who have used their power to grasp even more power by dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns, who have used their power to win obscene tax cuts so as to put even more money into buying more power to keep the disemployed in their despair -- and all of us in stupor. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now
The catatonic syndrome of negativistic stupor, characterized by mutism, negativism, stupor, and catalepsy, is also extremely responsive to ECT. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
The stupor of a homogeneous youth, as propagated through our media, thus becomes outdated.
Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
Ernie watched the tape in a drugged stupor.
We sat next to two young men, one was missing a front tooth, the other had moved past intoxicated into catatonic stupor.
Bored me into a stupor with a great long saga about the interclan trade wars and took advantage of me while I was unable to defend myself," Maarni laughed, patting her lifemate's arm affectionately. Acorna's Search
I had been in a daze, but now my anger was fired up, so strong and hot that it forced me out of the stupor.
I think I remember stumbling upon this truck late at night in drunken stupor and loving it. PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Anthony” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
In case of rapid recovery the stupor is short and usually marked with mild delirium. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'. Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
They are so calm in movement and gesture that I was lulled into a stupor.
For example, in psychiatric terms, a zombi might be called a catatonic schizophrenic; both conditions are characterized by incoherence and catalepsy with alternate moments of stupor and activity. The Serpent and the Rainbow
Mutism and stupor, although characteristic of catatonia, are not pathognomonic. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
I now sleep at night - proper peaceful sleep rather than passing out in a drunken stupor. Times, Sunday Times
Conclusion Nimotop treatment can diminish mortality, decrease the time of the stupor and cut down the disability rate for the primary in jury of brain-stem.
However, I can quite categorically say that spending three months drinking myself into a stupor in South East Asia last year has disabused me of the notion that doing nothing makes me feel bad.
Nowadays walking down the street, you can still see the occasional drunk lying in a stupor on the sidewalk.
A 14-year-old boy with a pre-existing history of autism exhibited stupor with mutism, akinesia, rigidity, waxy flexibility, posturing, facial grimacing and involuntary movements of the upper extremities.
Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
Insofar as someone in a sufficiently blissful stupor had no opportunity to reflect that, say, they were squandering their capacities by not reading Proust or listening to Wagner, I think the mental-state welfarist is hard pressed to seriously aver that this person is experiencing less subjective happiness, from a God Who Loves You perspective, than someone who has the enjoyment of realizing their capacities. Happiness Redux
The wind abruptly grew fierce and both of them awakened from their stupor to steady themselves.
Just as the crowd were being lulled into a stupor, Scotland pounced in the 23rd minute.
Provers of the tincture (H.) in toxic doses experienced giddiness, stupor, and confusion of mind, twitchings of the limbs, intermission of the pulse, and other symptoms indicative of the epileptiform Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
As the whisky took effect, he gradually fell into a drunken stupor.
It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
Igor, in his drunken stupor is now lying on top on KK. Squirrel Fights 2008--Round Deux
For example, in psychiatric terms, a zombi might be called a catatonic schizophrenic; both conditions are characterized by incoherence and catalepsy with alternate moments of stupor and activity. The Serpent and the Rainbow
As the rest of the family snoozed in a post-dinner stupor, I sneaked into the front parlour and helped myself to another glass.
I was near a dead man myself, that night, mostly in stupor, only dimly aware at times of the extremity of cold and wet that I endured. Chapter 19
I tiptoed up behind him, planning to scare him and snap him out of the stupor he was currently in.
My own cats are too busy napping in the catnip to bother the rest of the yard, but when they do emerge from their stupors they'd rather watch the goldfish than scratch in the few inches of soil I've left unplanted.
I felt his fear recede, replaced instead by a calm, almost drunken stupor.
Police found him at the flat, almost naked and in a drunken stupor.
With sheer force of will, she held herself from sliding completely back into a stupor.
The drinker will be heading towards an alcoholic stupor, possibly experiencing jerking eye movements.
She had had three experiences in which she had collapsed in a " drunken " stupor while driving her car. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
For amongst the diseases of the body those are the worst which are accompanied by stupor, as lethargies, headaches, epilepsies, apoplexies, and those fevers which raise inflammation to the pitch of madness, and disturb the brain as in the case of a musical instrument, Plutarch's Morals
In this we have ample cause for the attending train of symptoms that, beginning with drowsiness, rapidly passes into stupor followed by profound coma and ultimate dissolution -- marked evidence of the fact that a chemical agent or poison may produce a mechanical disease; and autopsical research reveals absolutely nothing save the general disorganization of blood corpuscles, as already noted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
A door slamming and voices below calling my name broke through my stupor, and prompted me to struggle to a sitting position. The Haunted
A Colonel Herbinger, drunk at the time, thought in his stupor that the enemy had launched a massive attack.
He would wear the sari and quickly tie up his long hair into a bun and appear on the stage in a drunken stupor.
It convicts them of the want of love, gratitude, and all high desires after God: it reveals the stupor and earthliness which is still upon the soul. Sermons. Volume Third.
Shaken, he pulled his car off the road and sat in a stupor for some time before turning back.
There are one hundred fifty-one children in some kind of deathly stupor, all stacked up in coffins within the ship. A Fire Upon the Deep
No, what apparently wakes Bush up from his stupor is a comedian making fun of him. 05/02/2006
He builds a cabin in the woods to be alone and drink himself into a stupor.
Later Bo, in a drugged stupor, walks naked at night along the highway.
You transmute your shadow into wisdom by waking up and letting go of doubt, sloth, and stupor. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
He fell to the ground in a stupor.
Broken only by my forced scream to break the stupor of my condition.
Aeolus, that bastard son of Hippotes (a typical wite man), reined in the winds like so many horses 'corpses (they were not real horses, but like pinochio they stank awfully), decided at a blink that he would have no more of this stillness (silly chinaman0), and like Leland Archer he woke from his stupor screaming about Japanese dreams and the' redolence 'of "sameness" - and alway to samness says th fdsljf rj The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)
someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor
The barbasco oozed a milky-white colloid that, after about 20 minutes, brought several dozen catfish, oscars, and killifish to the surface - not dead, but in a dull stupor.
He finds John in a drunken stupor in bed with this girl, and drags him off.
She almost hit the sheets again in her dozy stupor, but then Julia bounded in, hopping with the energy you'd expect from a hyper seven-year old.
His voice is even more gummy and inexpressive than last time, and he really sounds drugged down into a stupor a lot of the time.
He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
But when such a man was roused from his stupor by the cauteries of Calvinism, despair was more likely to take possession of his mind than the pious energy and humble hopes which follow true repentance. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
Just as the crowd were being lulled into a stupor, the Scottish team pounced in the 23rd minute.
She sat down in a sort of stupor, and paid no heed to the squabbling children who pulled at her gown, or the dogs who sniffed snappingly at the stranger. Mae Madden
The pain roused him from his drunken stupor.
As he opened the door of the main office, his ear was saluted by a low grunting sound, and there in evening dress was Mr. Augustus Alfonso Brockelsby, reclining in a big chair, asleep, if one could with propriety call the stupor in which he was sunk, sleep. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
Kara tried unsuccessfully to rouse herself from her stupor.
Leonoa had survived by a blade-thin chance, and even so, she lay four days in a stupor, waking for an evening before lapsing into bone fever, its delirious contortions permanently thwarting her spine's straightness, lengthening one arm and legs, and throwing the plates of her skull awry, gnarling her like a knotgrass doll. Cat Rambo
My drunken stupor means the specifics escape me, but it was a fine spread. The Sun
Older classification systems relied on descriptive terms such as obtundation (diminished pain or touch sensations), stupor, semicoma, etc. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing, stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
Obviously, it brings up interesting scenarios of landscape architects, in drunken stupors at 3 in the morning, downloading the software to design their own sinuous landforms. Ripple Topography
Gr. καρωτίδ-ες, f. καρούν to plunge into deep sleep, to stupefy', because compression of these arteries is said to produce carus or stupor. Languagehat.com: SLEEPY CAROTID.
She had had three experiences in which she had collapsed in a "drunken" stupor while driving her car. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
What is it that gets Auckland out of its summer stupor and provides a kick-start for the new year?
As the whisky took effect, he gradually fell into a drunken stupor.
Surely it is a reprobate sense, a spirit of frenzy and of stupor, which is withheld from any daring attempt, only by a fear of the shame of men; while the fear of divine judgment is trodden under foot. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
Heavy drinkers also run an increased risk of lung disease, especially chemical pneumonia, due to inhalation of vomit when in an alcoholic stupor. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages
She was lying in a drunken stupor on the sidewalk.
My drunken stupor means the specifics escape me, but it was a fine spread. The Sun
It gorged itself, often on dishes it invented (steamed oysters, say), and it famously liked drinking itself into a stupor (at one time, on the gin rickeys it invented).
For many the only remaining escape from the lie of sovietism was descent into an alcoholic stupor, wordless and sullen, repeated over and over again until the cognitive functions withered, the liver gave out, and death arrived as a relief. This Side of Ultima Thule
But differential diagnosis should be done on some special spirit and conscious states, like syncope, eclampsia, stupor, hysterism, and locked-in syndrome.
It dulled them to a stupor, the feeling of intense thought with not one astir. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Many women simply sat around in a drunken stupor stark naked. Christianity Today
They had almost grown used to the odd stupor when the lift gave a sudden jolt and came to a stop.
If you are among the people who missed the big game, the Super Bowl, today I call stupor Monday, must be like that. CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2007
A blow to the nose, sharply given by an experienced pastor during a congregational debate, can put a contentious layperson into a stupor.
The wounded troops flying in and out are often in misery or a narcotized stupor, while those treated with blocks remain awake and pain-free despite massive injuries.
It kills me with heaviness, stupor, and horrible dreams; and yet it was but a pint of bucellas, and fish. Lady Byron Vindicated
There are also men who killed in a crazed fit or drunken stupor. Times, Sunday Times
Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
There are also men who killed in a crazed fit or drunken stupor. Times, Sunday Times
We are able to resume ourselves after sleep, after an alcoholic stupor, after an epileptic fit, after prolonged coma.
Findings is so deeply into a drug/alcohol induced stupor that he is not sure himself if he is dreaming, hallucinating or actually awake.
By all means, walk down roads at 2am in a miniskirt and halter top while in a drunken stupor. Think Progress » Bayh tries to walk back inaccurate claim about Congress not creating jobs, but still gets it wrong.
People, normally who at this early afternoon hour are just now rousing from the midday sun-induced stupor, seem today to have been infected with some the electricity crackling through the air and scamper about trying finish up any last business. First Rains « Cameroon
The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden.
Hunger pangs mixed with pain from his injuries to put him in a miserable state of stupor.
Stuporous patients are unable to eat or drink and, if untreated,, can develop severe dehydration, hemoconcentration, hyperpyrexia, ketosis, and eventually cardiovascular collapse and death. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Ulrich Engelbert, a contemporary, calls him the wonder and the miracle of his age: "Vir in omni scientia adeo divinus, ut nostri temporis stupor et miraculum congrue vocari possit" (De summo bono, tr. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
We face with stupor the despair of 15 million Americans who are officially counted among the disemployed, and another 5 million who are not even counted because they have given up looking for jobs. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now
He is delirious in an artificial, merciful semi-stupor, which is saving him the untold sufferings of morphine denial. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life. The Nervous Child
The narcotist keeps chloroform or chloral always at hand, forgetful or ignorant that one sure effect of the first dose is to produce a semistupor more dangerous than actual somnolence. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
One morning in late 1996, Taylor, a research scientist who worked at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (a.k.a., the Brain Bank), awoke with a sharp pain behind her left eye, and soon enough — as her speech and motor functions failed her, as she melted into what she called a euphoric stupor and lost all sense of where “Dr. Jill” ended and the rest of the universe began — she realized this was no ordinary headache. Hemorrhaging Nirvana
My drunken stupor means the specifics escape me, but it was a fine spread. The Sun
A woman wakes up from a drunken stupor unable to recall what she had got up to. The Sun
That other face was a dream," he thought, and studied the aspect of the young man with the unwearied attentiveness of partial stupor, that can note accurately, but cannot deduce from its noting, and is inveterate in patience because it is unideaed. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
He did not again relapse into his former stupor, but it was very long before he regained his usual cheerfulness. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
a chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma-nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery, Finnegans Wake
As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
Police found him at the flat, almost naked and in a drunken stupor.
The three boys discovered Mr Smith in a drunken stupor, sleeping on a barrel by the garage on Trowbridge Road.
Pretty soon she jumped over to the other side, and I shook myself out of my stupor and climbed hurriedly.
At long last the lumpen England fan has woken from a deep historic stupor and realised that Scotland is off, and is never coming back.

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