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Meanings of mental paralysis in English

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Usage of mental paralysis in English
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Mrs. Van Stuyler looked at him in the silence of mental paralysis.
A Honeymoon in Space
2
The brutal words steadied her, and drove back the feeling of mental paralysis.
The Hippodrome
3
It was discovery undoubtedly-andhow long would that mental paralysis last?
Way of the Lawless
4
Herrick shook off the mental paralysis which had held him tongue-tied, and spoke vigorously.
The Making of a Soul
5
There was another dead silence, a silence, on Katharine's part, of complete mental paralysis.
The Box with Broken Seals
6
Now all actions of the afflicted manifested mental paralysis and the highest degree of apathy.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical
7
He stood there in a condition of mental paralysis.
Lost / 1898
8
A sort of mental paralysis was upon her.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
9
His words broke the mental paralysis gripping her.
Depraved
10
It was all jumbled with murky images and apprehensions, and for full half an hour he suffered mental paralysis.
Five Tales
11
He longs to make the ultimate break for freedom but mental paralysis and external pressures constantly hold him back.
The Irish Times
12
Ever since the lifting of his mental paralysis, he had been continuously circling round and round the same conundrum.
The girl who played with fire
13
But she could not confess-shecould not explain everything, and again she was struck with a sort of mental paralysis.
Evelyn Innes
14
In his profound grief, seeing only ruin and disaster about him, he had done nothing to shake off this mental paralysis.
The Lerouge Case
15
His legs kept moving him forward, as though momentary mental paralysis had yet to reach the lower half of his body.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
16
What worried him in the short term was that he could never predict when Niedermann might be struck by his mental paralysis.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
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