catatonic stupor

The little children from die ville all seemed to have subsided into a collective catatonic stupor.

One night I found her hunkered in the shower as if she were in a catatonic stupor.

She looked at them for a second, muttered, "Like wow," and fell forward in a catatonic stupor with a rattle of beads.

He labeled the syndrome "apathy" and distinguished it from a catatonic stupor, or depression.

Symptoms can include catatonic stupor and waxy flexibility.

Decker buries his family, and then falls into a catatonic stupor as the weight of his loss consumes him.

When asked her age, a common if slightly underhanded question, Ms. Kahn went into what only could only be described as a catatonic stupor.

Bohlen's eyes were without focus; obviously he was in a state of catatonic stupor, probably alternating with excitement--he looked exhausted.

Her caterwauling second-act entrance, followed by her immediate lapse into a catatonic stupor, momentarily brings the show to life.

He then describes Ms. Kahn's reaction ("catatonic stupor") and her request that she be "treated like a lady and not have it specified."

Deep autistic fugal withdrawal with impaired ideation compounded with delusions of reference, plus alternating catatonic stupor and excitement.

When confronted by all eight heroes, Maverick admits defeat and uses his powers on himself, wiping his memories completely and leaving him in a catatonic stupor.

That kid, Tony Dunkelwelt; he lives for his mystical insights, his schizophrenic trances . . . which both Babble and Frazer call catatonic stupor.

The convulsions lasted until the burning of the effigy on the screen, and then Hisst lay there in a twisted pile, staring at the set as though in a catatonic stupor.

Zoe Coleman comes home from medical school to take care of her brother, who has been left in a catatonic stupor by too many drugs and a stint as a draft dodger in Canada.

Crichton shuts down the wormhole just as Einstein removes all the wormhole weapon's knowledge (Harvey states this from his death bed) from his mind, but then falls into a catatonic stupor.

The letter shrilly screams at IBM to come out of its catatonic stupor and save itself BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

Holden is informed of Harrington's death and that the only link between it and Karswell's cult is an accused murderer, Rand Hobart (Brian Wilde), who has fallen into a catatonic stupor.

However, it is interesting because of its paradoxical nature; the apparent lack of behavioural responsiveness actually conceals very much heightened psychological and physiological sensitivity, with which the sufferer copes by withdrawing into the inactivity of catatonic stupor.