stupefactions

The days when humanity will be visited by the stupefactions of the Beast, when the dregs of wisdom will be drained, when fools will deliver sermons to the masses, and yea verily, man and animal will feed from the same trough.

Boing Boing: August 26, 2001 - September 1, 2001 Archives 2001

As we emerge from the stupefactions of the Reagan era and perhaps into a moment of greater vision and hopefulness, such a question will again seem "real" to intellectuals.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

Innumerable other of this sort are the deceptions, and wonder-hiding stupefactions, which Space practises on us.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

I am not sure that when _my poor Brother_ bequeathed the care of his pieces to Mr. James Tobin he did not therein convey a legacy which in some measure mollified the otherwise first stupefactions of grief.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

a shudder at the thought of her musical stupefactions.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903