Because humans are aware that animals are mortal, being reminded of our animality provokes this paralyzing anxiety. |
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So we covered our mouths, stifling silly giggles, petrified that the principal's paralyzing peepers would turn our way! |
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Much to my horror, I once again felt the life blood draining out of me, paralyzing me with fear. |
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And for some of you, relief from this sometimes paralyzing disorder could be within sight. |
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In many, energy loss is so overwhelming that physical movement is arduous and grinds to a paralyzing halt. |
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Poisonous snakes kill with the venom that passes through their fangs, paralyzing their prey. |
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The big boys are on a merger binge that is paralyzing the industry and bumping fledgling and mid-range artists off the radar. |
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I remember being abruptly lucid, the fog of fatigue and sickness stripped away by the power and paralyzing cold of the water. |
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Malapterurus electricus is a voracious piscivore, hunting and stunning its prey using its paralyzing electrical organ discharge. |
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Some insects also hunt down spiders, including the mantis and a wasp that specializes in catching and paralyzing spiders. |
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Organophosphates act like a nerve gas, paralyzing the nervous system of the flea. |
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It was the one that always haunted his inner eye, beclouding his mind and paralyzing his fingers. |
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It is these choices that are so bewildering, so mind-boggling, so paralyzing. |
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There, the infant ichneumon secretes a paralyzing agent while it proceeds to eat the living horntail from the inside out. |
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Ma said the rainfall drowned the station's cooling system, thus disabling it and paralyzing the pumping station. |
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They tried to suppress their paralyzing experiences of shame, terror and impotence. |
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The prospect of another paralyzing cohabitation between a president and National Assembly of opposed political camps might bring about a change of heart. |
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The paralyzing narrowness of American political life, with its minuscule differences between two big business parties, can be traced back to this period. |
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It enervated Sven, draining his energy and willpower, then paralyzing him. |
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She was silent, and her eyes were like living flames that roved over his figure, but her gaze finally locked with his, paralyzing him where he stood. |
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The cowardly reaction would be to permit fear to exert its paralyzing grip on our will to press on with the advance of the human species. |
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The venom apparatus may be primarily for killing or paralyzing prey or may be a purely defensive adaptation. |
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With political infighting paralyzing the country, he could manage only modest achievements during his first term. |
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However, some amended components of this section of the bill as drafted could have serious and paralyzing consequences for medical science. |
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It has a paralyzing effect on us, dampens our curiosity about the world and our belief in real possibilities for change. |
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As a result, the problems with the balance of payments did not become as serious and paralyzing as they had been in the recent past. |
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One respondent noted that talk about the determinants of health can be paralyzing to some government officials. |
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Indeed, one of the most severe problems with the existing pay equity legislation is its 29 paralyzing lack of clarity. |
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Here was a young man struck down in his prime and condemned to live the remainder of his life with one muscle after another slowly paralyzing. |
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And since the UN is entirely dependent on our generosity, all this has a direct and paralyzing effect on the working of the Organization. |
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The main risk is that plugs of ice, known as hydrates, will form, paralyzing the system. |
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The paralyzing standoff between the two major American parties was dramatized by the idiocies of the debt-ceiling debate. |
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This unbearable realization riddles us with a paralyzing existential anxiety that we need to do something with, and quickly. |
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A balanced force is capable of paralyzing the enemy by fire and holding the ground by maneuver can translate temporary advantages into lasting advantages by collapsing the enemy's will. |
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The prairies of Iowa and Kansas offer dry land aplenty, and water here is not a carrier of paralyzing sorrow but a healing substance, lustral and often luminous. |
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Dripping with potential but too young to realize the extent of possibilities that lie before us, life can easily seem overwhelming, paralyzing us with fear. |
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Economists tell us that the cash flow crisis is paralyzing the system. |
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Instead of entering her head, the bullet went through her neck, nicking the vertebrae and wedging a bone fragment against her spinal cord, paralyzing her. |
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It is yet the ego-self who handles the id and gives it ineradicable tentacles, influencing the future reaction of the individual to make him fall into the paralyzing situation that interests it. |
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In order to avoid blockage by a small minority, a more equitable and less paralyzing procedure is needed, for example, a level of ratification of two thirds of member states. |
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Each arm has a pad covered in suckers which grabs and pulls prey toward its beak, paralyzing it with venom before eating it. |
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Once again, the hegemonic Power is utterly paralyzing the Council and disregards the will of the overwhelming majority of the international community. |
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Aided by a tomial, or cutting, tooth on the upper beak, the shrike can quickly cut through the spinal cord, partially paralyzing its quarry, making it easier to kill the animal. |
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The murderer combines an inflated sense of self-worth with moments of paralyzing doubt and self-recrimination. |
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The horror of war, the pain of poverty, the disorientation of displacement and the deceitfulness of injustice are indeed paralyzing impediments to education. |
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You must of been through the following experience: You're walking on the street and suddenly you hear a noise, horn, siren, etc. and you feel your adrenalin go up slightly paralyzing you. |
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The law was challenged and struck down at the Supreme Constitutional Court, leaving a legal gap that has had a paralyzing effect on many associations because of the paralysis it imposes on foreign funding agencies. |
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Not just giggles or a few ha-has, but the paralyzing kind of laughter, when the eyes tear and the nose runs and one gasps seemingly unto apoplexy. |
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The inhibiting and paralyzing force of superstitious beliefs penetrated to every department of life, and the most primary and elementary activities of society were influenced. |
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Lap belts pose a risk of paralyzing spinal and disabling abdominal injury to all occupants but especially to children who have underdeveloped pelvic structures. |
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Phobias, obsessions, panic attacks and social anxiety can be paralyzing, irrational, profoundly debilitating and not particularly amusing for those afflicted. |
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The snake's paralyzing venom prevented the mouse from escaping. |
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Sometimes, the polecat does not kill these, but bites them at the base of the skull, thus paralyzing them and keeping them fresh for later consumption. |
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