Diane Ackerman

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

American Poet

Mikhail Bakunin

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Russian Revolutionary

Bryant H. McGill

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

American Author

Jean Baudrillard

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

French Sociologist

Quentin Crisp

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

English Writer

Theodor W. Adorno

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

German Philosopher

Stupefy may not mean physically immobilize, but rather overwhelm someone's thoughts.

Not Literally

The effect of stupefying someone typically doesn't last long, it's momentary.

Temporary Effect

Stupefy can be neutral and doesn't always suggest a negative impact.

Neutral Tone

Using stupefy emphasizes a strong reaction, often showing someone is speechless.

Speechless Reaction

Stupefy implies a level of surprise that is extreme or intense.

Strong Astonishment

Stupefying someone usually involves a negative surprise or shock.

Often Negative

Stupefy suggests a dulling of the senses, as though they're slowed down or impaired.

Sensorial Dullness

Being stupefied can be accidental, not always caused by someone else.

Not Always Intentional

Stupefy can refer to both physical numbness or mental incapacity.

Physical or Mental

 to becomes fascinating I think it was Darwin that used to say that attention if sudden and close graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement so I would encourage people just to just try their best to reorient what they pay attention to on a day-to-day basis and they'll

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 How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives. I'll offer you "radiant," "stupefying," "awful," "gut-wrenching."

Stupefy

Not Literally

Temporary Effect

Neutral Tone

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