Geraldine Brooks

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

Australian Journalist

Hanna Rosin

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

Israeli Author

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

Indian Actress

David Olusoga

It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.

British Historian

Soren Kierkegaard

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Danish Philosopher

Peter Landesman

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.

American Director

John Clare

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

English Poet

Hugh Grant

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

English Actor

John Piper

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

American Clergyman

Stupor often results from physical conditions like illness or intoxication.

Physical Causes

'Stupor' usually describes a temporary condition, not a permanent one.

Temporary State

Stupor is not sleeping; it's a groggy state where someone is barely awake.

Not Sleep

Stupor can occur after emotional shocks, not just physical ones.

Emotional Trigger

Stupor as a response to trauma is an involuntary protective psychological state.

Trauma Response

A stupor isn't something one chooses or controls; it's often reactive or involuntary.

Not Deliberate

 he will never go back to surgery, he will never be the loving father that he was to his two children, his life will be changed. If he has the usual result, he'll end up like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' And you know about that, just essentially in a stupor the rest of his life."

Sherwin Nuland: How...

 God man just one little phrase twist your whole life around in a different direction Steve's already gone he's shot wheeled and ran before I could come out of my stupor all this happened within the span of like two or three seconds I don't

Cop Killer PIPE National...

 into a benign, unthinking stupor. According to Plato, only very specific types of music were beneficial to a person's ethos. One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage,