To all these people life must become numbed and meaningless at the time, and for ever after a haunted wilderness where the demons of revenge for ever lurk.
The scene below was illuminated by a pale shaft of light and, in numbed silence, the officer watched the chaplain as he signalled to a small party of frightened men.
It is all too easy t6,become numbed by the statistics and photographs of people sleeping rough or families with children in bed and breakfast accommodation.
Now we have sunk into a numbed tolerance of them.
People become numbed, confused and accustomed to such large figures, which appear meaningless.
Cutting has already operated on over 500 casualties and admits to being numbed by the scale of human tragedy.
One can easily be numbed by the numbers of refugees.
We are to some extent being numbed into insensibility on the dollar question.
