Many of these children are paralytically anxious and can't perform at all."

The boy-body, clean, new, paralytically helpless, made no movement other than shallow breathing.

Liam's only answer to it all is to get paralytically drunk every night so he doesn't have to face up to what's going on.'

Roth comments, "this was tragic, as the majority of my students were paralytically self-conscious when it came to moving their bodies."

Another old man sitting on his bed, paralytically peeling a boiled potato, lifts his head and stares.

He was most paralytically bored.

Always conspicuously tall for her age, Junie grew up paralytically shy, losing herself in books despite having dyslexia.

Not paralytically; just nicely, pleasantly toasted.

Stuck upon the spear the spider writhed horribly, still striving to reach the paralytically frozen Burl.

He is truly, paralytically ambivalent, perpetually ruminating about whether he should run for president even while running for president in 1992.

All the rectitude implanted by his careful training, all the chivalry proper to an orchid-collector, boiled and surged beneath a paralytically calm exterior.

He ripped the coronet off and flung it aside, and the huge bulk of Koitska swung paralytically off the couch and fell to the floor.

Angelo accepted this analysis, but was less happy to learn that Dollar Bill insisted on a day off before he began to work on the names because he needed to get paralytically drunk.

Nigel Kneale, writer of 'The Quatermass Experiment', described the series as "paralytically awful" and added that the "dialogue/characterisation seemed to consist of a kind of childish squabbling."

Its Governor remained paralytically unable to decide which wolf to be devoured by, while the two wolves still warily circled each other after almost twenty years, each unwilling to expose itself by moving first.

He had known her before, years ago, when he was a young and inexperienced campaigner on the State assembly circuit, and she probably remembered that he had seen her paralytically drunk at a campaign party, slobbering kisses over acutely embarrassed party chiefs.

He also slammed Blake's 7, which he described as the lowest point of British television science-fiction: "I think the low point for me would be the very few bits I've seen of a thing called Blake's 7 which I found paralytically awful.

Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.