Finals either bring out the best in people or paralyse them, and we definitely want the former.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/cricket/parnell-markram-players-enjoy-sa20-final/

The strongest escalation would be widespread workers’ action to paralyse Britain until the government breaks from support from Israel.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/we-have-to-stay-active-and-angry-says-palestine-solidarity-rally-in-london/

This betrayal has been seeded, foreshadowed and returned to throughout the fourth series and yet its eventuality still had the power to paralyse.

Source: https://theconversation.com/psychoanalysing-successions-tense-finale-a-freudian-suspension-of-pleasure-206824