The mood among the workers at JPL, when Hu took the arrivals from Washington out to meet them, was very different, ranging from numbed shock through restless nervousness to open fear barely being kept under control.

EMILY BROWNLOW sat staring at the patterns on the kitchen wall, experienced a kind of after-funeral feeling - numbed shock that gradually turned to relief.

That left the gardener, Fred, who appeared resilient enough, and Sam, whose eyes had held a look of numbed shock ever since the attack began.

Irving's numbed shock turned into bursting pain and his mouth opened and his eyes squeezed shut.

Modesty stood gazing blankly, arms hanging limp, as if she had passed from terror into numbed shock.

When war finally broke out all across the Empire, he watched the endless news coverage with numbed shock.

After the first feeling of numbed shock and disbelief that we were being attacked, a cold rage swept over the crew.

The attack left me in a state of numbed shock, the passing of terror leaving in its place an emptiness, a void that could not even grieve for the ghastly death of the archer, Patch.

He stared at her column in numbed shock, but she wasn't finished.

He motioned Tom back and went out the door alone, leaving Boyd's mind in a state of numbed shock.