numbly

I listened numbly 7 floor' had in a ser as a doctor told me Jamel been attacked and was serious state, currently being helicoptered to a nearby A&E.

I nodded numbly. In time, I would recall my conversation with Aunty Loh that morning.

Since she'd carried it, by exactly what luck she now numbly wondered, it hadn't been fired.

I stood at the starting line, staring numbly ahead, unsure what direction I was going in.

Eventually Jack got up and numbly carried his clubs back to the clubhouse, his brother and father leading the way.

If not, why is the public behaving numbly, as though the killings mean nothing, as though the victims, whether pushers or addicts, deserved to be killed?

All I could do was numbly block and report, block and report," Laila writes in a blog post at the Tempest .

She her 'How could he leave her?' Martha thought numbly. She'd been asking herself this for years now, and was no closer to an answer.

He stares numbly at passive faces a few yards away.

Numbly, she thought: it's another one of those stories.

Numbly, watching the sands of another day slip through our fingers into the bleak, black abyss."

That tragically has been the case as political leaders offer little more than platitudes after each shootout, while the nation is left to numbly anticipate the next killing spree.

But these same people often become numbly indifferent to the plight of 'the one' who is one of many in a much greater problem." The fuller article, available at www.apa .org/science/about/psa/2007/l l/slovic.aspx, is worth the read in its entirety....