- "
Stupefaction" is a song
written by rock
musician Graham Parker and
performed by
Graham Parker and the
Rumour for
their 1980
studio album The Up Escalator...
- The term
narcotic (/nɑːrˈkɒtɪk/, from
ancient Gr**** ναρκῶ narkō, "I make numb")
originally referred medically to any
psychoactive compound with numbing...
- with the "inability to
treat a
child because of lack of money" and "
stupefaction provoked by the
continual hunger and punishment" that
leads a father...
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praised Molina as
attaining "the
right mixture of
gentle honor and
baffled stupefaction" to
portray his character,
although Peter Rainer of Los
Angeles Times...
- words, the film
feels claustrophobic,
prolix and
airless to the
point of
stupefaction ... Yet,
whatever the film's
overall problems, the role of Sophie, its...
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whereby the men were "cooped up",
plied with
drink to the
point of
stupefaction, and
tricked into enlisting.
Ballot stuffing Shanghaiing Walsh, John...
- and
Trembling (original title:
Stupeur et tremblements,
which means "
Stupefaction and trembling") is a fictional,
satirical novel by Amélie Nothomb, first...
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Datura in many such poisonings,
using it also to
induce drowsiness or
stupefaction,
making strangulation easier.
Datura toxins may be
ingested accidentally...
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bourgeois reaction, used for the
protection of the
exploitation and the
stupefaction of the
working class".
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971),
Soviet leader in...
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moments represented an
intimation of the
highest truth, he also knew that "
stupefaction,
mental darkness,
idiocy stood before him as the
consequence of these...