Somehow, numbed brains had begun to work again and everyone was looking in the direction from which the clangor came.

To his numbed brain the conclusion that the helicopter must have been firing at something else was a difficult one to accept.

The correct response is for the message to get passed along the line, but it can't have registered in his numbed brain.

But the realization that I was hurt settled back into my numbed brain.

She stared for a moment while her numbed brain struggled to process.

By the time he was outside, an idea had worked its way through his numbed brain.

For a long time, as she continued to stare up at him, Ginny could hear the repetition of his words in her numbed brain.

Bonnie's numbed brain struggled with this for a while.

The snow whispered, and I lay drifting in a white, dark world until consciousness began to slide away from my numbed brain.

The three men remained silent as the knowledge sought entry into Harris's numbed brain.