Another strange paralysis strikes many New York men who sit with legs spread wide apart.

She broke out of the strange paralysis that had gripped her, and rushed to help Nicholas.

They seemed in the grip of a strange paralysis.

Tony threw off the strange paralysis she induced and gestured at his laptop.

He'd never understood the strange paralysis of will that had seemed to grip their brilliant early efforts.

It was as if she had been stricken by a strange paralysis.

The strange paralysis that had held him was broken.

But a strange paralysis held him back.

Consciousness did not leave him, but a strange paralysis gripped him.

Newsweek reports that a "strange paralysis" set in among Bush administration officials, who debated lines of authority while thousands died.