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Example sentences for: paralyzing

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It seems to me that this idea that what is simply is , period, is paralyzing on a cultural as well as a political level.
After teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for a couple of years, he returned to New York, where--with a brief interruption in 1988, when a paralyzing seizure left him in a wheelchair--he has worked ever since.
Mahfuz's secular liberalism so enraged Egypt's Islamists that one fanatic knifed the old man, paralyzing his writing hand.
But I ask you: Isn't that role sometimes paralyzing?
The Nobel has a terrible effect on the productivity of many recipients, paralyzing them with greatness.