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  • I wonder if ideological stupefication is necessary to achieve this result.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Balloon Boy in a Prius 2010

  • I remember J.G. Ballards 'piece on how Star Wars was the stupefication of science fiction, but sometimes you just have to have FUN, people.

    REWATCHING: The Original Star Wars Trilogy darkerblogistan 2009

  • And Waverley Root, the American food writer, said he once thought that the English cooked badly through sheer technical deficiency but he was shocked "to discover to my stupefication that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it."

    A Daringly English Dinner Bruce Palling 2011

  • Or maybe they put it there for all the visitors who made the trip to the Melkweg,Bulldog or Happy Family…Imagine their fright,joy,stupefication at not being able to dismiss the fly with a well-placed shot! on 31 Oct 2003 at 5:53 pm3Mike

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Waiter, what’s this fly doing… ? 2003

  • She found hornets 'nests in the orchard; she smoked the insects into slumberous stupefication, then took the nests down, carefully.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • And while the fifth man stared in openmouthed stupefication, Lyran separated his body from his head.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • All such states again as exist with stupefication (of the senses, the mind or the understanding) whose cause is unascertainable, and which are incomprehensible (by either reasons or inward light), should be known as ascribable to the action of

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Pride, untruthfulness of speech, cupidity, stupefication, vindictiveness, whether arising from any known cause or otherwise, are indications of the quality of Rajas.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • It comes to mean that with burning there is that pleasant state of stupefication.

    Rooms 1914

  • It comes to mean that with burning there is that pleasant state of stupefication.

    Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Gertrude Stein 1910

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