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deadening
1. Those pills of Doris’s had done the trick, deadening the pains in her head sufficiently for her to sleep
2. And then … he was here, in the deadening cold night
3. Only now in the deadening stillness could the analysis of the situation begin
4. What were they doing out here so late, and without their Lord? Casting a deadening barrier over his mind so they would have no idea he was there, Simon watched as they searched around the well, turning over the dead and dying leaves and tearing the bank of moss on the east side with their swords
5. The rain continued to pucker the surface of the sea, deadening the cry of the sea-birds as they greeted the morning
6. When the frequencies are mixed they cancel each other out and create a deadening effect
7. deadening effects of the medication soon carried her under again
8. Is it unsympathetic not to like fruitless, profitless, barren things? Not to like fogs and blights and other deadening, decaying things? From my heart I pity all the people who are so made that they cannot get on with their living for fear of their dying; but I do not admire them
9. by its hypnotic flames which they stared at… deadening their awareness during the cold evenings and nights
10. If people try, they can easily mark the slow deadening process of normality, the slow death of wonder-curiosity-aliveness in all stages of human life
11. Watching sports to relieve yourself from the stress of working all week is only a way of deadening yourself to your slavery and your boring meaningless pointless existence
12. By desensitizing our feelings and thoughts through the deadening process of normality, we deaden ourselves in order to function as machines: and in doing so; we become less human
13. The path of living with dead things is: deadening
14. � The word "subordinate" typifies the hierarchal and deadening structure of the dominator model
15. � Synecdoche may serve a purpose as an illustrative rhetorical trope, but it can also serve as an interpretation and diagnosis that can have deadening effects on our search for the becoming self
16. � I suffered from the deadening "No" and I suffered from the inchoate "Yes
17. It was all I could do to manage to hold on as punches and kicks of a much greater power than my own rained down upon me with deadening impact
18. One by one, front running Valley Lander cavalry plowed into the enemy and then thousands hit the panicking enemy line with deadening force
19. Those sixteen inch shells were falling on the city with deadening force
20. Everybody does not need to draw and paint, but if everybody could get the faculty of appreciating the form and colour on their retinas as form and colour, what a wealth would always be at their disposal for enjoyment! The Japanese habit of looking at a landscape upside down between their legs is a way of seeing without the deadening influence of touch associations
21. A conventional life is not the only wholesome form of existence, and is certainly a most unwholesome and deadening form to the artist; and neither is a dissipated life the only unconventional one open to him
22. result of the narcotic action of alcohol in deadening his pain, and stupefying his senses
23. And in a few minutes Paul heard his father's heavy steps go thudding over the deadening snow
24. The polluted air, the noise, the solitude of hour upon hour spent in a cell no bigger than a normal person’s closet—in the seventy-three days that Noah has spent here, they have had the effect of deadening him, killing his hope, erasing his dreams, leaving him numb
25. He was a man wildly overqualified for a job in early-evening television who used his sarcastic wit and supercilious delivery to protect himself from the deadening routine of regional broadcasting
26. Offstage he seemed to be deadening the reality of this terrible career misjudgment with medicinal doses of vodka
27. I’m agnostic—but not with the deadening incuriosity that characterized my stance before I began this whole trip
28. They were far off, but the sound, even though coming muffled through the deadening snowfall, was full of terror
29. She said: ‘No, no! There is something else!’ And it seemed to me that some one was purposely deadening the words by the aid of the piano