The weary, weakened people listened almost numbly.

Dirk listened numbly, trying to decide whether it was fa- naticism-or logic.

She heard keys clicking, listened numbly through a haze of terror to his soft-voiced verbal commands, not really taking in anything he said.

An Linh listened numbly as Baker told her what he wanted her to do.

Hunkered in that angle between two walls, she'd listened numbly to the pounding of machinery somewhere outside the cage.

I listened numbly as the judge asked the jury if they'd arrived at the verdict.

Killeen listened to the rest of the service numbly, the words passing like raindrops sliding on a windowpane.

Sonya listened numbly, trying to take in all that he was saying.

He could only watch and listen numbly, still doing all he could to keep this man who was more than a son to him from slipping away.

Gillian listened numbly as he seized her hands.