| Collectively, the players resemble a punch-drunk boxer, bruised and bloodied, clinging onto the ropes for support. |
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| After that, it was a test of nerve and character as both teams slugged it out like a pair of punch-drunk boxers. |
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| All that changed in 1918 when, like two punch-drunk boxers, the belligerents began finally to land blows which had effect. |
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| It was made easy because everyone was so nice, but I was punch-drunk by the end. |
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| We were a bit punch-drunk, talking about silly stuff, trying to forget the ordeal that awaited. |
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| It would be tragic if he suffers yet another body blow, fails to recognise it, and chooses to remain in the fray punch-drunk and disoriented. |
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| After arriving punch-drunk at a truck stop in Amarillo, Texas, I positioned a Therm-a-Rest atop the luggage in the very back. |
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| Sometimes it can be painful to watch former superstars fumbling for their lost skills like a punch-drunk boxer. |
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| I had the attention span of a punch-drunk goldfish with Alzheimer's and Bob was scratching his bonce and looking into his beer for inspiration. |
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| Everyone using the free weights looked punch-drunk from the heat. |
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| I began to think I might be getting punch-drunk just listening to him. |
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| Like two ageing punch-drunk fighters, Miami Heat and New York Knicks are going to keep swinging until one falls to the canvas from a knockout blow. |
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| Many businesspeople feel punch-drunk as they try to cope with new rules on working time, trade union recognition and European works councils. |
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| The result is a heavyweight movie which leaves you feeling punch-drunk throughout, an adrenaline ride fuelled by some incendiary performances. |
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| But in the end the film feels closer to a rambled lecture by a schoolmaster punch-drunk on self-importance. |
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| I could feel this slap-happy punch-drunk idiot grin appear on my face, widening exponentially. |
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| In contrast, today's budding poets might seem insignificant and pointless, punch-drunk and undirected about content, style, identity. |
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| It felt like I was watching a lame reappropriation of the paradise scenes in punch-drunk Love. |
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| The Argentines were punch-drunk and the heat was taking its toll. |
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| Post-Suarez Liverpool welcome a Southampton side punch-drunk after a summer drubbing from the iron fists of capitalism, much of it Anfield-based. |
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| But many houses remain empty, punch-drunk with gaping holes. |
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| We were the ones who looked weary, punch-drunk. |
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| It's honest and hopeful and more than a little punch-drunk, and utterly addictive. |
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| Opening with the punch-drunk country stomp of Black And Blue, it was one defiant heartbreaker after another. |
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| With Merthyr 4-0 up within half an hour, Chippenham resembled a punch-drunk boxer. |
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| The result is a down-and-dirty fight between two punch-drunk titans. |
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| It would have been shadow dancing, a punch-drunk ex-champ getting back into the ring for one last massive pay-cheque. |
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| There's something off-kilter about the song, a sort of underlying punch-drunk wobbliness. |
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| I'm still punch-drunk from hearing their insanely stupid soundbites. |
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| From the EI and now the Pope, I think all the trainers are punch-drunk. |
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| The Bradley's Smile Trust was set up by his family alongside Northumberland's monthly social reconnection movement Punch-Drunk Comedy. |
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| Punch-Drunk Comedy brings the best stand-up comedians to social clubs in Northumberland, and has raised over PS10,000 for a number of charities in the process. |
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