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I did have the pleasure of interviewing Thomas in the past, and the memory of his smile is what's haunting me today--that smile, and the mischievous light that always shone in Thomas' eyes even though he had to deal with another numbing tragedy before this.
Elected to the Senate in 1974, he has devoted himself to important, numbing issues.
Dexter does have copyright law on his side, a point that he makes with numbing regularity.
Aside from an absurd premise that "most TV medical dramas would wrap up in 20 minutes" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ), the film is riddled with overwrought hospital scenes and numbing car chases--"clichés that mount like fallen bricks" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ).
West is blunt about what he calls black "nihilism"--what he defines as "a numbing detachment from others and a self-destructive disposition toward the world."