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• Now a four-piece, they toured with California's Benumb and Noothgrush.
• The accident seemed to startle but not benumb this leisurely tourist region an hour southwest of Little Rock.
• They bribe senators with book contracts, use their tabloids to punish rivals and benumb the public with " a steady diet of the titillating and the inconsequential ."
• But it's more likely that it comes from the Greek word " narkao, " which means " to benumb " and refers to the narcotic properties of daffodil bulbs.
• "Stunning in scope, profound in wisdom, " she wrote, " ` Paradise'is an important re-visioning of the forces that shaped 20th-century America and that forged the divisions that so bedevil and benumb us ."
• Those " smooth jazz " strains that benumb thine ears issue forth from a tortured trio trapped on the club's cramped stage, condemned to play putridity for two-bit gamblers and girlie-drink gulpers till the boat is back in berth.
• In the " Encomium ", Gorgias likens the effect of speech on the soul to the effect of drugs on the body : " Just as different drugs draw forth different humors from the body  some putting a stop to disease, others to life  so too with words : some cause pain, others joy, some strike fear, some stir the audience to boldness, some benumb and bewitch the soul with evil persuasion " ( Gorgias 32 ).
• Plutarch refers to this in his " Symposiacs " as follows, " and the daffodil, because it benumbs the nerves and causes a stupid narcotic heaviness in the limbs, and therefore Sophocles calls it the ancient garland flower of the great ( that is, the earthy ) gods . " This reference to Sophocles'" crown of the great Goddesses ", here is the source of the commonly quoted phrase in the English literature " Chaplet of the infernal Gods " incorrectly attributed to Socrates.