0 present participle of paralyse
1 to cause a person, animal, or part of the body to lose the ability to move or feel:
This highlights that ethics is not an all or none phenomenon and that excessive preoccupation with ethical aspects can be paralysing.
Their members, living and working both in the rural and urban areas, are capable of paralysing the entire educational system.
These experiences we have chosen to describe as 'crystallising' experiences or 'paralysing' experiences respectively.
I suggest that engaging with similar questions in music education would move us past the current paralysing concern for authenticity.
Workers initiated a series of general strikes, paralysing necessary services throughout the country.
First, access and opportunity for musical encounter and experience need to be 'crystallising' rather than 'paralysing' in nature.
As such, they can exercise considerable political power, being potentially capable of paralysing the economy and administration, and threatening the regime in power.
Only a further transformation made possible by practical faith allows reason to overcome the paralysing internal conflicts between impartiality and prudence.
