The operations of that force had of late been strangely thwarted; and its leaders, searching for the paralyzing influence, discovered it in the advice of Buonaparte.
The Jacobinism, which Dundas in 1796 had lamented as paralyzing the nation's energy, had wholly vanished; and the fatality which dogged the steps of Napoleon was already discernible.
In less perilous days of the past, division of governmental responsibility among our great parties has produced a paralyzing indecision.
The paralyzing effects of a nationwide strike in such industries as transportation, coal, oil, steel, or communications can result in national disaster.
It had satanic powers, all right--that paralyzing fascination!
And so he struck me with one of your Martian paralyzing rays!
It came--the familiar vague flash of the paralyzing ray.
I saw him reach under his robe, doubtless for a low-powered paralyzing ray.
Together, with a paralyzing ray, we could creep about the ship, overcome these brigands, one by one.
His hand held a small cylinder of the Martian paralyzing ray.
The light from an overhead tube was on him: I saw in his hand the cylinder projector of his paralyzing ray.
A Martian paralyzing ray--or an electronic beam, far more deadly than our own puny weapons--would have struck us the instant we tried to leave the chart room.
With my eyes again accustomed to the normal Earthlight in the valley, I could see the stabs of electronic beams, the Martian paralyzing rays and heat beams.
The others, paralyzing rays and heat rays, were less deadly.
I think I can throw this thing straight enough and fast enough to chop off a Nevian's head before he can put a paralyzing ray on us," he explained grimly, but he was not called upon to show his skill with the improvised cleaver.
That is their paralyzing ray; we've got it stopped cold, and we've each got enough iron to hold it forever.
I managed to get quite a lot of dope on that paralyzing ray and some of their other stuff, and we can install the necessary equipment in our suits easily enough.
And Jane Withersteen suddenly suffered a paralyzing affront to her consciousness of reverence by some strange, irresistible twist of thought wherein she saw this Bishop as a man.
But a life of leisure is not the only way of paralyzing the development of a wife's individuality.
It is demoralizing to the mental faculties, paralyzing to the character, to do a thing which one's conscience forbids.
Their minds would soon cease to reach out, they would quickly feel the pinching, paralyzing effect of the monotonous existence, of doing the same things every day, year in and year out.
Below the rich and populous State of Pennsylvania, the hum of human industry ceases; for we then pass into the paralyzingshadow of Slavery.
He had probably only elementary branches to teach; for the university, as formerly constituted, exerted on the teachers of the foundation-schools under its control, an influence rather paralyzing than encouraging.
For a moment a paralyzing temptation came to Joyce to solve for herself, by the means at hand, the mystery which still surrounded the man she loved with a completeness and abandon that controlled every thought and act of her life.
Since Mary of Galilee found her son in the Temple questioning Wisdom, and with awe beheld that he was no longer her little child, the paralyzing question, "What have I to do with thee?
The firstparalyzing blow at the planters was struck by the abolition of slavery.
The problem for the South was one of defense mainly, though even for defense swift and paralyzing strokes at the North were later deemed imperative measures.
Mr. Chen and Mr. Duyvendak are also inclined to lay stress upon the paralyzing effect of the classical examinations upon the Chinese mind.
Then Juarez began to have a paralyzing feeling of doubt.
The horses were trembling and quivering with their exertions and with the fear of the sea which is the most terrible and paralyzing of all fears.
I saw him reach under his robe, doubtless for a low-powered paralyzing ray such as Miko already had used on me.
The light from an overhead tube was on him; I saw in his hand the cylinder projector of his paralyzing ray.
And so he struck me with one of your cursed Martian paralyzing rays!
Omar Pasha went home in disgrace in November, and left in charge Hussein Avni, who had a plan of paralyzing the insurrection by building lines of blockhouses across the island and isolating the bands.
Thenceforward Russia united her influence with that of France in creating difficulties for Italy in Abyssinia as the punishment of Crispi, and at the same time the means of paralyzing one of the members of the Triple Alliance.
Some it renders incapable of thought or action, paralyzing their limbs and stagnating the blood in their veins; such creatures die in anticipating death.
The girl beside him knew better, but she was conscious of the paralyzing despair in her companion's heart, and made a show of being cheerful.
Jim cried, and with the words, his arms were about the other in a paralyzing grip.
They had dared regain hope when again the paralyzing scream ripped through the silence.
They must escape--they would escape--but their one stroke for freedom must not be made when darkness and paralyzing cold should force them back into the hands of the enemy tribes.
Such has been the paralyzing menace of religion that has prevailed over the mind of man.
He also knew, however, that once a person's mind had been poisoned with religious superstition, it was almost impossible to free it from the paralyzing fear which destroyed its ability to think.
It is their duty to do everything within their power to stop its demoralizing and paralyzing influence upon the life of man.
If each girl could be told the paralyzing truth of the life of the prostitute as we have told it in this book, would she plunge headlong into the consuming fire?
The story is shocking to your moral sense; paralyzing to your brain; but it is the Truth.
All, however, prove the same law, and exhibit the sameparalyzing effect of slavery.
It seems to act by paralyzing the motor muscles, leaving the senses intact.
To prevent the spasms by paralyzing the motor nerves, a solution of curare has been recommended by Dr.
That being so, I argued that a very great and heavy sound coming from a strange animal would produce in the creature before us a paralyzing terror.
But now we had to bear the fearful strain of expectation, with the paralyzing knowledge that nothing that we could do could aid us in the least.
This piece of paralyzinginformation made the doctor pause and consider.
Well, may the howly Saint Pathrick and all his sainted brith'rin stand witness to this," cried Thomas in the throes of paralyzing astonishment.
It was a moment of such paralyzing terror, that what happened next was a sort of blur on their minds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paralyzing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: petrifying; sharp; stunning; stupefying; terrifying; terroristic
