| 单词 | deadening |
| 例句 | Where students are most in need of help is where the most stripped-down, deadening material is put in front of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Rowan felt tingling in his extremities, but when it was done, he didn’t feel the warmth of opiates or the deadening of his pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Thoughts of Chuck flooded him again, replacing the crazy woman, deadening his heart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was a false spring day, which, like Maureen, had pierced the shell of a deadening winter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She deserved to hurl whatever was available, to keep us moving, to speak in counterpoint to the deadening strings of my pyrrhic feet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My interest grew more acute with every deadening hour in the junkyard, until one day I had a bizarre thought: that I should enroll in the public school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That too I've learned in the cellar, and not by deadening my sense of perception; I'm invisible, not blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice ball exploded, spraying his entire body with freezing, paralyzing streams of water, weighing down his arms, deadening his legs, squeezing his heart. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The tone in his voice was flat and deadening and frankly starting to scare me a little. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As the deadening visual noise and consumer distractions of our cities continue to thicken, the quiet force of Mr. Parent’s designs begins to look like a heroic resistance. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z The Spanish film “Timecode,” about the clandestine activities of parking garage security guards, might seem equally slight, but it reveals itself to be a sly fable of creative resistance in the face of deadening routine. Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Unsung but Worth Your Time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The message is clearly that mass culture has a deadening impact on young minds and turns them effectively into zombies born only to consume corporate products. Green Day spice up Broadway with sex, drugs and punk 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z She belongs to a support group for similarly afflicted people, and she’s adopted a “grinding, deadening” routine — work, home and Pit Stop, her neighborhood bar — that keeps her “surviving.” A Debut Novel Upends the Myth of Apollo and Daphne 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He did not say, “No, I hate it here, the food is horrible and the culture is deadening and the people are ignorant and racist.” What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z What else might such deadening environments do to our relationships? Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z I admire young people who set out to live in concert with their feelings and inspiration, with their immediate responses to our culture, which can be deadening and perverse. What is punk? 2013-05-10T00:00:00Z At a certain point, though, the carnage becomes deadening, its consequences no more than soulless tableaus of damage that encourage disengagement. ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Review: Keanu Reeves Is Back for Another Brutal Round 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z This narrow dramatic determinism is the principal reason that the Marvelization of movies ultimately feels deadening, despite the occasional spectacular delight or dramatic twist. Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Shaw's paintings don't change much, but then neither do the psychically deadening places he depicts. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z In fact all five episodes were awash with hallucinations and dream sequences, a disorienting prospect at the best of times, but deadeningly exhausting over the course of a week. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z But in others, a deadening feeling of familiarity set in, as people, stories and — God forbid — “issues” seemed to slip effortlessly into easily digestible templates camera-ready for PBS, premium cable or an Oscar clip reel. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But while the timing is impressive, it is also deadening, stripping the staging of animated life. Sin Sangre (Without Blood) 2010-08-30T15:37:00Z The camera remains trained on Arterton’s face, so we can’t fail to see the gritted teeth and deadening disappointment her husband doesn’t even notice. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z From the deadening brown drapery that engulfs Beowulf Boritt’s minimal set to the ponderous music that saturates the scene breaks, the heavy-handedness of the staging is at odds with the delicacy of the writing. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z Beneath the deadening lack of racial diversity in American publishing lies a subtler, affiliated kind of redlining. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z All that emphasis grew wearying, even deadening, and the climactic judgment scene was slowed to the point of trudging. Review: Anna Netrebko Sings Her First ‘Aida’ in Salzburg 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But too often the action is strangely far away, and there is a deadening effect to the script’s insistence on emphasizing social injustice even more than Dickens does in his original story. Review: Hey, Eb, 3 Christmas Spirits Would Like to Chill With You 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z What good is immortality, Count Dracula might wonder, if the distant future is so deadeningly familiar? Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Bebergal grew up lighting black candles and playing Dungeons & Dragons, he says, but somewhere in the writing of this book, his adolescent enthusiasm got replaced by a deadening academic scrupulousness. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll” All this is in service to the deadeningly commonplace observation that “there’s no true anymore that anyone can agree on.” Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But picaresque fantasies aside, there were times, he said, that the enterprise was “deadening.” ArtsBeat: John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey 2012-05-25T13:29:55Z Everything will be filmed in deadening yellows and washed-out blues. I hate Walter White 2012-07-11T00:00:00Z Third, this segregation results in galleries of academic 19th-century American art that are predictable and monotonous, effectively deadening the works on view and shortchanging the viewer. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z Assimilating to adult reality in the corrupt world of Elsinore is a deadening process. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The sense of doom is totalizing and deadening. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis said that the movie’s endless cycle of violence can become deadening, but its elaborate thrills give it its edge. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ and ‘Austin City Limits’ 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z For a moment I was worried that the episode, written by Gennifer Hutchison, was returning again to last week’s theme: that life for an associate at a white-shoe firm is spirit deadening. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 6: Is Kim Breaking Bad? 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Which suggests at least part of the problem: The superficiality of “The Archer” is exacerbated by its deadening style. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The series is lyrical in its fleeting visions of the children’s shattered lives and deadeningly prosaic in its deconstruction of how those lives were shattered. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z I hope change comes because the movies need new and different voices and visions, something other than deadening, damaging stereotypes and storybook clichés. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Turns out that the window between the front and back seat is not only useful for concealing morally questionable behavior among adults, but it’s also great for deadening the din of screaming 6-year-olds. The Comfort-Loving Cult of the Lincoln Town Car 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Putting out the Vegas material offered some technical challenges, Heftel says, mainly removing hiss without deadening dynamics. Fifteen years after 9/11, we can hear the only bit George Carlin ever cut for taste 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Without question the deadening flatness of fashion seen online can feel like a bummer when you compare it with the experience of the shows in their hectic, wackadoodle glory. Diversity: A Movement, Not a Moment 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z For the town there is the tourist economy; for the restless eater, there is the deadening effect of a mass clientele that encourages restaurants into a mindset best categorised as "don't scare the horses". No 9 Church Street: restaurant review 2013-05-19T06:37:02Z For a girl like me, performing a tedious, unrewarding office job—as so many women in the I.D.F. do—the Army was a deadening and alienating twenty-two-month experience. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z If you are facing large, unresponsive, deadening and seemingly intractable forces, especially officious or elitist bureaucratic troglodytes, you try to disrupt them, which gives the audience the vicarious pleasure of overturning the applecart. Donald Trump is The Joker: Forget Mussolini and Hitler, the GOP strongman is an authoritarian populist straight from Hollywood 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It squeals when he puts it in, but otherwise, the show fails to convey how hearing aids turn the whole world up — not simply one conversation — which can be overwhelming and deadening. What "Hawkeye" gets right about deafness – and what it glosses over 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z A Cronenberg-style body horror, shot with a deadening lack of wit, where everyone staggers through their own personal hell-cycle of grief and the Human Torch ends up addicted to heroin. Justice for directors! The $20m 'Snyder cut' should only be the start 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Groaning shelves of books produce the wonderful side effects of deadening all sound and scenting the air with the drowsy, musty perfume of old wood pulp — intangible features of the world we are losing. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z This morning, standing in the dark at the stove, waiting for the kettle to whistle, I thought of Emily Dickinson’s famous poem about the deadening of feelings after a trauma. A Plague of Snow 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The most vivid thread that runs through “Heads” is the one that follows this divide, between the sometimes deadening rhythms of the real world and the enduring fantasies of something different. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Because Ms. Favaretto relies so much on devices that were once revolutionary and are now deadeningly familiar, it is hard to appreciate the poetry of futility, disappointment and even grief that animates her work. Art Review: Lara Favaretto’s ‘Just Knocked Out’ at MoMA PS1 2012-07-12T21:17:09Z In contrast, the big space for 1968-1969 seems positively barren, which is also deadening. MoMA Takes On the ’60s in a Welcome Shakeup of the Permanent Collection Galleries 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The effect is deadening, with none of the original’s grand emotional swoop. Critic’s Notebook: Married to the Mob, Wedded to Fighting 2012-07-20T22:47:55Z It’s deadening, and the broadcasters are prone to get things wrong. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z This detachment is meant to allow the six actors to function humbly as witnesses, but it has a deadening effect, giving their spoken lines all the emotional impact of news-service bulletins read aloud. Locals Recount Violence in ‘Juárez: A Documentary Mythology’ 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In the Norwegian Henrik Louis Lund’s portrait of a bearded man in a slouch hat and spectacles leaning elbow-wise on a fence, facile draftsmanship and patchy, Cézannesque paint application combine to deadening effect. Art Review: ?Luminous Modernism? at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-12-01T22:55:09Z Some are hopeful, some are ugly, some are wild, and some seem hermetic, sealed off from the deadening hierarchies of the world. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The performance contained some memorable moments, but never quite enough to transcend the deadening effect of the production; it was left to Antonio Pappano's conducting to provide a consistent dramatic pulse. Tosca ? review 2011-07-15T17:27:49Z Beneath the deadening lack of racial diversity in American publishing lies a subtler, affiliated kind of redlining. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But his reënactments were—and remain, at twenty-seven years’ remove—deadening and trivializing, not because of their subjectivity but because of their impersonality, because of their dramatic and directorial banality. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But Riley finds terminology like that to be inherently deadening: “I’ve used the word ‘capitalism’ only once in my whole career, in my art, and ‘Communism’ only once. The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Kaluuya, meanwhile, feels the deadening effects of low-level liberal racism his performance embodied are equally common on this side of the Atlantic. Trapped in the Sunken Place: how Get Out’s purgatory engulfed pop culture 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The contrast of Domenico’s family life with modern corporate burdens—the trade-off of constraining tradition for isolating freedom, of dire poverty for deadening routine—rises to a tender lament for the human condition. Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z With his longtime producer, Henry Molofsky, Taberski takes a topic that many of us might find deadeningly depressing and turns it into a key to decoding recent American history and culture. The Best Podcasts of 2019 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The period work’s more xenophobic comments tally with post-Brexit Britain, even though they originate in their author’s wish to awaken both Archie and his audience from the deadening anesthesia that Osborne equated with life. Review: ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘They Drink It in the Congo’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s sad to see the deadening effect of this production, with its many repetitions of steps, on good dancers. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z There isn’t a plot, but there certainly is a story, as Rand enacts the patient’s frustration, the deadening and ineffective regimen of medication, the hope and fear and longing. Review | Opera needs to change. Prototype festival shows one new path. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Silly wigs are duly donned, ponderous dialogue deadeningly delivered, sandy swords soporifically swung and CGI scenery splashed around dazzlingly, presumably hoping to distract us from the wooden performances. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-10-13T23:05:39Z “Her death had a deadening effect in general on our lives . . . something of us died along with her.” ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z A tour of Chelsea these days can be a deadening experience. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A little of that goes a long way; even when it’s being skewered, simply hearing it can have a deadening effect. ‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “Her color is a cross she will always carry,” her mother concludes with a deadening lack of subtlety. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, though, the duo allow their earnestness too much sway, making for deadening solemnity. Smoke Fairies: Blood Speaks ? review 2012-05-17T20:45:01Z Crassness overwhelms "Your Highness," though, the vulgar language losing all force by incessant repetition, deadening the lingo so that even the occasional witty wisecracks aren't funny. Review: 'Your Highness' drowns in lowbrow humor 2011-04-06T19:07:08Z Crassness overwhelms the movie, the vulgar language losing all force by incessant repetition, deadening the lingo so that even the occasional witty wisecracks aren't funny. Capsule reviews: `Arthur,' `Hanna' 2011-04-07T17:01:22Z The result is a picture so carelessly plotted, and so coarsely photographed, that it traps its cast in a deadening cycle of blasé snark and humdrum slaughter. ‘Scream’ Review: Kill Me Again, Again 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z But there is instead something strangely deadening about the current Pilobolus experience. Dance Review: Tumbles and Twitches in an Alien World Undersea or in Outer Space 2011-07-12T21:00:01Z But the music in Spider-Man is deadening in its mediocrity, tuneless and forgettable, with rhymes that rarely employ words of more than one syllable. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z I couldn’t do a show where I’m just repeating the same thing every night… I find that deadening. Sophie Okonedo: ‘My body is my barometer – my instincts are physical’ 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z These sauces aren’t remotely heavy or deadening, two of the charges hurled at them when they were led to the guillotines by the Robespierres of nouvelle cuisine. Le Coucou Pays Rich Homage to Old-School French Cuisine 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z I’m reluctant to embrace that particular stay-in-your-lane logic, which is ultimately deadening to the cause of art and empathy. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Yet serious hurt that goes unacknowledged leads to the accumulation of resentment and a deadening of the relationship. I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “In a nutshell, anesthesia would only be useful for deadening the nerves in the scalp, as there are no sensory nerves in the skull bone,” Verano said. Biblical city yields unusual case of 3,500-year-old head surgery 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z He has fallen into a deadening depression, his nerdy, despondent voice captured by Graham Halstead, who brightens it up as the boy begins to emerge from his torment. Review | 3 new audiobooks include a true crime with a thriller’s momentum 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Overall, “Corsage” shows a tantalizing way forward for the hopelessly staid biopic genre: honoring, provoking and upending with verve and humor as it liberates a complex woman from iconography’s deadening glamour. Review: Vicky Krieps is magnetic as the Princess Diana of her day in 'Corsage' 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z That’s a tall order, fraught with the deadening risks of polemical art, and none of the prize winners I’ve read has reached anything close to Kingsolver’s combination of subtlety and power. Review | Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ may be the best novel of 2022 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s a common theme, as many working-age parents were fleeing the dangerous strife and deadening poverty of El Salvador, leaving the young and the old behind. Review | A migrant child’s long journey to Gringolandia 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Instead, he plans to undergo a procedure this week called radio frequency ablation to try to provide longer-term pain relief by deadening the problematic nerves in his foot. Nadal Has a Chance at Winning All 4 Grand Slams, if His Foot Cooperates 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z “That has a deadening effect on discussion within the party state,” Minzner said. Xi’s strict covid policies prompt rumblings of discontent in China 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “Slave Play” reveals the way America’s racial past is inscribed on the body through both desire and the deadening of desire. Review: Jeremy O. Harris' 'Slave Play' awakens the Mark Taper Forum with a jolt 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z A crisis of deadening is being passed down to the next generation. The Power of a Good Cry 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z These codes applied not only to clothes, but to jewelry, handkerchiefs, wreaths on the door, and straw deadening the noise from the streets. Perspective | Miss Manners: What is the appropriate stationery to use when writing a sympathy note? 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Others bemoan the deadening effect they have on language and, if you’re feeling particularly hyperbolic, on the human soul. Google adds Smart Reply to Docs comments to fill your life with more bland platitudes 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z And there's been a deadening impact on social life. Afghans living under Taliban lament loss of freedoms 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Education in this sense must free itself from the technocratic obsessions with a deadening instrumental rationality, a regressive emphasis on standardization, training for the workplace and the memorizing of facts. Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Rodriguez said that footage of the collapse was playing in a loop in his mind and deadening his hopes. Hope for Survivors Is Quickly Fading at Collapsed Florida Condo 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The eight stories in “First Person Singular” share a deadening lack of curiosity. Review: How Haruki Murakami fell down a literary well 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “Does them deadening it mean that pitchers don’t throw 100 miles an hour also?” Missing at Dodgers' first full-squad workout are fans — and the late Tommy Lasorda 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z He said he was particularly alarmed about the deadening effect on improvisation, which requires being unfiltered. In Canada, Did a Comedian’s Joke Go Too Far? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z But what often seemed most disturbing to patients were the deadening fatigue and cognitive issues that in some ways resembled dementia. What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z And yet her targets — the deadening limitations of bureaucracy and patriarchy — are timeless, along with her unerring, worldly wit. Review: Still decorous and still scathing: Shirley Hazzard's timeless tales collected 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Tunnel vision allows you to enjoy the moments of 2020 – the year of uncertainty — while deadening the pain of expecting to be freed. LOVERRO: Dallas win might be light at the end of tunnel (or oncoming locomotive) 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z These are the ribbed and sometimes eggshell-patterned foam panels that do a great job absorbing and deadening sound. DIY or hire a pro? The best way to soundproof your room 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The greatest achievement of “Rage” is that its deadening incoherence is a pretty close approximation of what it has felt like to be in Washington in 2020. Review: Woodward's Trump exposé 'Rage' reflects the lazy thinking that got us into this mess 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Luxurious seduction by sunset at the beach merges seamlessly with thumbing through a deadening rack of mass-produced greeting cards. Appreciation: How artist Peter Alexander caught clouds in a box and used color to profound effect 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z He talks winningly about the country’s future outside the deadening regulations and pooled sovereignty of the E.U. How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The first three episodes available for preview are filled with scenes that could function as enjoyable punchlines, if only the tone weren’t so deadeningly dour. Netflix’s Wu Assassins series lacks the Hong Kong cinema magic 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Some feel trapped in a deadening struggle for survival, so beaten down by grief or misfortune that they become resigned to a life in which “there was no future, just long stretches of killing time”. An American great: Michiko Kakutani reflects on Toni Morrison's legacy 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In the telling, the authors illustrate how technical details can enhance delight, rather than obfuscating or deadening it. Review | The poetry, prose and physics of baseball 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z This musculature lies beneath the skin of our daily interactions; practice makes us stronger, while we know the deadening weight of holding a grudge. Opinion | After this political era, can Americans forgive each other? 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Put the two together and what you get is a ruthless, deadening and, above all, unthinking artifice. We rush to condemn fakers such as Dan Mallory but the world has made impostors of us all | Rachel Cooke 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z In fact, what they had created was an instrument that could be active or passive, educational or inane, inspiring or deadening to the spirit, since it contained all things. Parents can police screen time – but good luck telling your children that | Zoe Williams 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “There was some sense of obligation that was deadening. When I went to college, I felt so happy to do something new.” Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian: 'Dating is caught up in ego, power and control' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Oh, I see: extensive laser screw-welding; twice as much structure adhesive as before; elaborate structural reinforcement at the front strut towers; a third more sound deadening insulation, covering 93% of the floor. Lexus ES 300h: Spend on the Luxury, Save on Gas Money 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z On top is an aluminum die-cast platter backed with deadening rubber, again for minimizing vibrations. Technics announces a new SL-1200 turntable for DJing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The con: Even the most patient date, i.e., my husband, finds it deadening to read aloud about local rock cod ceviche. How to Combine Glasses and Earrings Successfully 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Among ordinary citizens, drones seem to have had a narcotizing effect, deadening the impulse to reflect on the harm they cause. The Wounds of the Drone Warrior 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It ended with rubber deadening against the paddle of Holtby’s stick, the preservation of a 3-2 Washington Capitals lead over the Vegas Golden Knights late in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals, a miracle. What made Braden Holtby’s save so good? Let Olie Kolzig explain. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And even in Pyongyang, Western and South Korean pressure groups attest, the deadening totalitarian system is as intrusive as ever. What life is like for ordinary North Koreans 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Medicated,” a song about deadening and dependency, showcases the merging of a super-tight band with powerful lyrics: “So numb all the time/ How have we become so empty?” asks Witherspoon. Review: Sevendust polished, heavy and melodic on new album 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z In his memoir, Surrender is Not an Option, Mr Bolton railed against the "deadening Brussels bureaucracies" of the European Union. John Bolton: Bush-era war hawk makes comeback 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that the novel’s brilliance survived the deadening force of sobriety. Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The brainchild of comedian Beppe Grillo, the 5-Star Movement was long considered an itchy thorn in the EU’s side at best, a droll antidote to the sometimes deadening debate at the European Parliament. Italian election results cast a pall over the European Union 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z As the ceremony stretched to three and then four hours, this predictability became deadening. For the Oscar-winners, the times, they've a-changed 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The high monopoly prices that characterized the age of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries acted as a deadening tax on European economic activity. For Europe, Trump Is a Blessing in Disguise 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness. Gunfire Erupts at a School. Leaders Offer Prayers. Children Are Buried. Repeat. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z For me as a young clinical scientist, it was not the awakening but its opposite — the deadening — that remained as the lasting impression of the book. A Failure to Heal 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Foam insulation is sprayed into all flat exterior ceilings; walls shared by neighboring townhouses are insulated to enhance sound deadening; and exterior corners are sealed. Downtown Brambleton, Va., offers townhouses with a ‘high walkability score’ 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z And, almost from the first exchange, the deadening pattern of struggle on one side of the net and urgency on the other began to emerge. Rafael Nadal defeats Kevin Anderson in US Open final for 16th grand slam title 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z For “Lust,” Lamar moved to a secondary stage on the venue’s floor and described the deadening nature of excess from the inside of what resembled a cage with light-up bars. Kendrick Lamar was a superstar in life size at Staples Center 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Alas, Fender’s FXA9s only serve to illustrate why this trend is inadvisable, deadening the sound with a presentation that lacks dynamism and excitement. Fender FXA9 review: technology without soul 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But the density and complexity of Blind Spot is also, he insists, a protest against the relentless, deadening noise of populism and demagoguery. Teju Cole: ‘My camera is like an invisibility cloak. It makes me more free’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z “What, then, is our course? Must civilization perish in a hail of fiery atoms? Must freedom wither in a quiet, deadening accommodation with totalitarian evil?” Opinion | The president just made a titanic foreign policy shift. The media missed it. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Learned reflection gives history context but sometimes at the expense of immediacy; perspective is enlightening but can also be deadening, draining the life out of history. Trio of riot documentaries look back to 1992 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But the moment of relative calm quickly ended as an enemy mortar round screamed through the air and landed on a Humvee with a deadening thump. Islamic State is showing stunning resistance as Iraqi troops try to breach west Mosul 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The worrying – if deadeningly inevitable – takeaway is that Trump is still wearing the long ties, suggesting his neediness remains unsatisfied, despite now being president. Tie length: a worrying guide to Trump’s state of mind 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Some might take umbrage at the way “Miss Sloane” seems to equate female strength with a deadening of warmth and emotion. Has Hollywood lost touch with American values? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z In the deadening argot of finance, Deutsche Bank’s Russian fiasco has frequently been called a “failure of controls.” Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In his journal, he describes the hours he spent with Trump as “draining” and “deadening.” Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks. McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s got the unbuttoned spontaneity that selfie culture celebrates – and the same deadening superficiality. James Needham's bathroom painting proves art is doomed in the selfie age 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But thanks to deadening repetition of the gag, it’s not. ‘Popstar’: Hold the applause, this mockumentary flops 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It also plans to mitigate the deadening effects of strict delineation of segments of the city by creating mixed-use neighbourhood centres using “new design ideas and concepts to provide a complete live-work-play-learn environment for residents”. Story of cities #27: Singapore – the most meticulously planned city in the world 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Even moments of intense fear and paranoia are trumped by this blank look, as if Christine is terrified to feel anything other than a deadening emptiness. The Girlfriend Experience is an immaculate show about empty sex 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It was all very atmospheric — and not a little deadening. David Gilmour is a sound, not a sight, to behold at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z That cheese has a deadening effect on the sausage, somewhat muffling its flavor, but the pide also has an acidic edge, which helps slice right through the fat. Aden Pizza fires up its namesake dish alongside fresh-baked delights from Turkey 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The monolithic uncertainty of my future was deadening; everywhere I turned, the shadow of death obscured the meaning of any action. What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Third, they want relief from the deadening and depleting demands of paperwork – the ways in which everyday efforts to receive effective treatment are made aversive or exceptionally difficult to obtain. Take Care of Caregivers 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z All the while retaining the anima and spirit of a classic, without the deadening encumberments of electronics like traction or stability controls. The Porsche 911, reimagined 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z New York City ended up with an excess of density-bonus plazas deadening rather than animating avenue activity. The clamor for open space is constant, but sometimes it’s the wrong way to go 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “People write about religion in this way that’s kind of deadening and flat,” Mar said. Serious researcher or 'spiritual tourist'? How Alex Mar riled America's pagans 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The spare, melancholy "Million Years Ago" captures the deadening impacts of age and fame on a life less lively than it used to be. On her new album, Adele can still pull out all the face-melting, window-busting stops 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It was as if the Kansas City Royals had made a margin call on much of the joy and luck the Mets experienced this autumn, and not just in that endless and deadening 12th-inning denouement. Mets’ Autumn of Joy Ends With a Pile of Miscues 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z When the moribund U.S. freight rail sector was freed from deadening regulations in the late 20th century, it quickly moved into profitability, dramatically increased productivity and added more than $500 billion in network investments. Deregulation and privatization are the ways forward 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z In Teresinha Soares’s series Vietnam, outlines of bodies entangle in contortions that could be sexual or warlike, framed by a distancing, deadening TV screen. Exile, arrest and torture: why Brazil's pop artists risked everything 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z First seen as a bright-eyed 14-year-old girl singing a knockout “Happy Birthday,” Winehouse gradually recedes from our view as her renown grows, obscured by a blizzard of flashes and a deadening haze of celebrity. Review: In Winehouse doc ‘Amy,’ celebrity is the villain 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet Cavaliers management all but extinguishes that competitive advantage by loosing that dull, deadening mechanical beast with its dictatorial DEE-FENSE demands. N.B.A. Plays Its Final Note, but the Symphony Is Just Getting Started 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It gives an already bland building even more of a deadening air. How Penn Station saved New York's architectural history - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Not long after the onset of the West's deadening drought, officials here saw the enemy, and he was Joe Six-Pack. Nevada ads use humor and a kick in the crotch to sway water-wasting guys 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z In the last ten years especially, I hear people everywhere saying how exasperated they are by the deadening effects of testing and standardization on them, their children, or their friends. How schools kill creativity: Forget standardized tests, here’s how we really engage our kids 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z He asked the congregation to help push society forward past "stagnant complacency and deadening pacifity." Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 'I hope nothing happens to me,' King said 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z What is a man thinking in that moment, when his season has ended with a deadening thud, a thud he helped create? NLCS: Cardinals’ curious decision leads to Giants’ deciding blow It is hopelessly utopian, strategically suicidal, emotionally deadening, operationally hollow, and needlessly partisan. 'Repeal and Replace' Will Never Work to Fix Obamacare 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z At the end of a long hallway encased in deadening marble, America’s largest municipal bankruptcy case is being heard. Detroit’s bankruptcy: Cram down 2014-02-27T16:07:00Z The quasi-fascist direction of this regime over the past 13 years depends on this deadening of the intellect. Op-Ed Contributor: Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot on the Olympics’ Deceptive Face 2014-02-20T09:59:58Z It's about silencing dissidence and "deadening of the intellect". A 'line crossed' in Venezuela 2014-02-20T21:26:23Z Some analysts had predicted the technology, which works by deadening nerves in the kidneys, could evolve into a $2 billion market by providing an alternative to drug therapy. Covidien to stop selling hypertension device 2014-01-24T16:42:51Z Naberezhnaya compared this kind of deadening paranoia to something out of Kafka’s “Castle,” the dark and surreal novel in which the protagonist, K., struggles to engage an opaque, all-powerful authority. Putin’s Olympic Fever Dream 2014-01-22T21:14:01Z Admen resent its emphasis on “persuasion”, which predicts short-term sales but seems deadeningly rational. Advertising: Nothing more than feelings 2013-12-05T16:07:33Z His book, Out of Office, is a hymn to coffee-shop creativity and the myriad advantages of ditching the deadening confines of the office and working where you like. Chris Ward: The PR boss who works from coffee shops 2013-07-28T23:05:10Z The New Scientist report in 2004 also suggested one option would be to encase the wreck in tonnes of sand, deadening any potential explosion. Explosive 'threat' to airport plans 2013-06-28T01:47:08Z Gregorious ensured there would be no double play, deadening a clinical bunt down the first base line. Nationals fail to complete sweep, fall to Diamondbacks in 11 innings, 3-2 2013-06-28T01:21:27Z When the condition of any one is so disastrous that his energies are paralyzed by discouragement, assistance is a tonic, not a sedative: it braces instead of deadening the active faculties. Today's Economist: Nancy Folbre: A Real Right to Work 2012-12-17T11:00:44Z The first thing to say is: congratulations on getting beyond a deadening headline. In praise of … a nominal GDP target : Editorial 2012-12-13T23:18:30Z This is another dimension of contemporary conservatism – contempt for the state, its officials and what it does which must necessarily always be deadening, inefficient and wrong. This railway fiasco reveals all that's wrong with the Tories 2012-10-06T23:03:06Z As the founding members and their revolutionary enthusiasms passed into history, lords and earls reasserted intellectually deadening class privileges. Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science 2012-09-03T19:06:06Z The Chicagoans argued that the state was an inefficient allocator of resources; that high taxes and welfare spending had a deadening effect on incentives. Economic history: Muddled models 2012-07-20T09:47:55Z It is possible to get acquainted with the views of the Greeks and Romans by a shorter road than the intellect deadening process of eight or ten years of declining, conjugating, analysing, and extemporisation. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z What he said I could not tell, the noise of the elements deadening all other sound, but to his question the captain merely shook his head. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Renovations had forced officials to take refuge in one of the many nondescript buildings of a city synonymous with deadening bureaucracy. Crisis Forges Closer Europe-U.S. Alliance 2012-04-20T20:09:53Z Otherwise our weather would have a deadening regularity. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z He had fainted for the first time in his strong life, and so that blessed unconsciousness was deadening the first insupportable agony of his dreadful wound. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The work of Jesus was a consistent effort to set religion free from the deadening system of the scribes. The Making of the New Testament 2012-03-30T02:00:20.917Z Some provision had to be made for deadening the sound. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z His will-power was gone; his vitality was lowered; he felt as though some powerful narcotic were in his blood, deadening his manhood, dulling all moral purpose. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z But as a whole, Christianity, like all other religions, became a method of deadening the consciousness of the oppressed masses. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z It is deadening to teachers and their students, and it’s very sad. SchoolBook: Teachers React to Release of Data 2012-02-24T21:05:03Z And he, in the same way, sensed what was wrong with her, felt the deadening tragedy which lay behind her mocking words. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Whereas the latter book explores how to turn deadening machine-like routines into creative workplaces, is about turning thinking people into unthinking machines. How Business Conditions The Sub-Prime Housewives 2012-02-11T17:45:29Z But the prospects of Green Bay Packer fans deadening their pain with a few too many alcoholic beverages during Sunday's Super Bowl has caused the state's Department of Transportation to issue a sobering directive. Packer fans warned off drunk driving with Super Bowl blues 2012-02-03T05:40:07Z I am--it is difficult to express it--I am deadening. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The appetite for pleasure was still too fresh to produce that deadening of energy and of feeling, which is most fatal to literary creativeness. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The drug still held the boy in its deadening grip. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z One half the cold she had not felt, Until she saw this gush of light Spread warmly forth, and seem to melt Its slow way through the deadening night. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z This is surely a result of massive amounts of heavy, sound deadening materials that Infiniti stuffed into the skeleton. Infiniti’s Hunky $75,000 SUV Charges Like Elephant, Smells Rich 2012-01-05T13:55:24Z In order to attain their lofty aim, the mystics require an utter deadening of all human affections and all natural impulses, and a thorough change of their usual thoughts and feelings. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Romney says the Democratic president’s policies amount to a “deadening approach” for America. With GOP voting to begin in a week, Romney looks past GOP presidential primary 2011-12-27T15:53:23Z "A wonderful conception but deadening in its effects, whether one contemplates rebirth in this world or absorption into Brahma," commented Wenaston. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Such lonely men need love, and friends, to whom they can be as open and sincere as to themselves, and in whose presence the deadening silence and hypocrisy may cease. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Familiarity with the form of religion, while we neglect its reality, has a fearfully deadening effect on the conscience. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z A window-box of narcissus in full bloom breathed a perfume, as deadening as the juice of poppies, on the air. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The Italian Renaissance extended to Spain, and this movement, which in Italy produced the brilliant group of the quatrocentisto, fell upon the artistic genius of Spain as a deadening blight. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Bopaul, when he had recovered from the stunned condition into which the accident threw him, fell back upon the deadening doctrine of fatalism. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z And who can tell what would be the deadening effect of uninterrupted engagement with this world's traffic? Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z All at once, as if the hesitancy in Starr’s voice had cast a deadening spell over the actors and the audience, an uneasy silence fell upon the house. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z It is something new and strange, and his conscience rises up against his conduct; and till he goes on to the deadening of his conscience, it gives him distress and anxiety. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z The rains descend; the air is saturated with water; it chills the frame; the heart beats languidly, and the soul of man stoops to the deadening influence of the elements. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Buffer, buf′ėr, n. a mechanical apparatus for deadening the force of a concussion, as in railway carriages: a fellow, as in 'old buffer.'—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z There is no punishment for a malicious nature so terrible as the vengeance of its own malice which reacts upon itself, dwarfing, embittering, deadening the higher capabilities of the soul that harbors it. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z She recalled Ann's fierce words prophesying some mysterious calamity which was to overtake her, and placed them beside the words she had just had hurled at her, and their combined effect was deadening. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The mind is defended against the deadening influence of many isolated particulars and also against the barrenness of a merely formal principle. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Patriotism occasionally seems to have the effect of deadening the intelligence. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z The example of the master ended in deadening consciences already somewhat feeble, and husbands might be seen encouraging their wives, the mothers of their daughters, to imitate La Valli�re and de Montespan. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Custom, with its deadening influence, comes in to make us feel least the sorrows which are most common in the society around us. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Can anything be more hardening to the heart, or more deadening to the conscience than this? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z It was a dull, gray afternoon, rapidly deadening into evening. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z And the fact that Darling had given way to a dulling, deadening indulgence in alcoholic excesses argued for a sort of moral cowardice. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z But order came as Sandy talked, and presently I found the continuous thunder, that deadening bass of the crank throws, seemed to lessen as we conversed, sitting together on a tool chest. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z This influence is one of paralysis—a deadening of the functional activity of certain portions of the brain, and, if continued long enough, is radiated through the nerves to the heart and other organs. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z This time Taylor met him with a smother of sharp, deadening uppercuts that threw the man backward, his mouth open, his eyes closed. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Jesus, let us repeat it again and again, endured not like a Stoic, deadening the natural impulses of humanity. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Will all be about the roller this morning deadening the bounce. Live - England v India 2011-07-31T09:32:04Z Nothing can well be more deadening to any vigorous mental life, and Mr. Lewes set a fine example of intellectual disinterestedness in sacrificing immediate success to the free play of a most variously endowed nature. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z There was no deadening apathy, there was no feeling of helplessness. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z For while they had been lost in the smother of dust, Taylor had landed a deadening uppercut on the big man’s chin. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z The mere contemplation of truth is always a deadening affair. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The child is in possession of one of those ‘truths that wake to perish never,’ though the tyranny of the senses and the deadening influence of custom obscure them as childhood passes away. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z And how divisive and anti-social, rather than unifying, dogma has been, and how deadening to real moral endeavor! Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z In his youth he learned by his own experience the deadening, brutalizing effect of toiling under the lash. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Paying no attention to Carrington’s blows, he shot in several short, terrific, deadening uppercuts that landed fairly on the big man’s chin. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Here we must come, to restore freshness to our spiritual activities, which alone give value to knowledge, and wrest it from deadening crystallisation, from mechanical rigidity. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Groping his way round a rock corner which would partially or entirely shield the light from those without, he struck a vesta, deadening, so far as he was able, the sound with his hollowed hands. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z If you need to stop deadening your pain to lost love, hurt from childhood, or crazy thinking you impose upon yourself, try a different approach. Love yourself to shake drugs or addictions 2011-06-27T18:52:04Z To me there is a kind of dull, deadening relief in them, they distract my thoughts, or prevent my thinking. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z From a crevice in the wall he took out a handful of strong-smelling herbs; these he broke up and added to the stew with the object of deadening the effluvium. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z It was the insidious chloroform stealing her consciousness from her and deadening every nerve. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z With a vicious howl the wind tore them from my grasp and flung them back with a crash, while the hail and rain streamed in, deadening the delicate tints of the carpet. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z Novel-reading is a considerable factor in flattening and deadening the mind. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z A loud clanging resounded through the room, causing the fiddles to abruptly halt and startling Katherine, who found herself alarmed less by the sound than by the deadening return of reality. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Anything to get out of that deadening, hopeless grind, the "Government service." The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z She was calm, but a curious pulse was beating in her ears and deadening her sense of hearing. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The deadening influence of an overwhelming power, capable of crushing whatever does not bend to its will, has in these towns stifled individual initiative and robbed citizenship of its virility. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z She realizes it as with astonishment she sees a boy transformed before her eyes, changed into an entirely different child as the weeks and months pass, because the troublesome and deadening adenoids have been removed. The Girl in Her Teens 2011-04-26T02:00:26.063Z For twenty strides VB sat there, inert, a dead weight, while grief came into his throat, into his vision, deadening his mind. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z The females betrayed marks of deadening fear; the crew of the brig evidently struggled to resist the impulses of indignation, and the negroes seemed full of hope and impatience. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The holes, therefore, being smaller than the laws of acoustics demand, have to be placed proportionally nearer the mouthpiece in order to avoid deepening the pitch and deadening the tone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Needlework and gardening both sharpen instead of deadening thought. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z And then, one morning when August was well on the wane, something happened that broke the spell of deadening despair that held him in its grasp. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z VB did not hear; would not have heeded had his senses registered the words, because an odd apathy had come over him, dulling the pain of his wound, deadening the realization of his danger. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z They provide a spontaneous response to the deadening weight of the popular committees of the past, directed from Tripoli. Replacing Gaddafi 2011-03-01T16:01:15Z Ancient as they were, conventional as, in a sense, they also were, they exercised none of the deadening, benumbing influence of ordinary conventions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Not to like fogs and blights and other deadening, decaying things? Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z It is only a means of deadening your feelings which you struggle for day after day, which you seek everywhere without finding. Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:38.687Z Youth that craved adventure and inspiration found relief from the deadening routine of the week only in the coarse pleasure of the railroad on Sundays, or the big-meeting that came once a year. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z North American-spec cars include tweaks to the suspension, interior, gearing and additional noise deadening materials. Fiat’s Mini Chariot Conquers Spain’s Citadels: Jason H. Harper 2011-02-10T21:01:38Z How I welcomed the gradual deadening of my senses, the dulling of my fevered brain! Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z The correspondents wrote home that the regiments 'condemned so long to the deadening inactivity of trench warfare were longing only for their turn at the Great Battle.' The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z With an effort of will I flung the deadening weight from me, and began to pace my plateau vigorously, my hands behind me, my head bent in thought. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It is a boast of the age that we have freed ourselves from what is called the deadening influence of superstition. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z Beware Lest you are caught in Satan’s snare, Or wandering far on worldly ground, Are in its deadening spirit drowned. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z While regular shopping veers between deadening chore and self-conscious lunch break, a poised stroll between carefully spaced handbags, backlit and burnished, sale shoppers arrive expecting little and often leave with even less. All the fun of the sales 2010-12-26T00:04:10Z The book was a plea for greater spontaneity in politics, a screed against the often deadening, risk-averse impact of political consultants on the process. The Brown-Whitman Debate: Blast from the Past 2010-09-30T08:00:00Z Maybe these complaints sound like English-teacher pedantry, but the cumulative effect of such stylistic sloth is deadening. Review of Sara Gruen's 'Ape House' 2010-09-08T04:00:00Z "Time Is Money" is a psychological study of industrial deadening, a soul in rigor mortis while the body still twitches to the clock's demands. The politics of dancing: Real-life worries distilled onstage 2010-06-10T18:33:00Z As a method of learning a language by a single pupil, this method might be useful; as a method of education in school nothing more deadening could be conceived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" As if turned to stone, she allowed herself to be kissed, and gasped, for the deadening perfume which this embrace exhaled streamed over her and almost took her breath away. The Undying Past Her ladyship crossed to the window and shut it down with a crash, deadening the sound of Luigi’s minstrelsy as she returned to her daughter’s side. Lady Maude's Mania The blow that had fallen when Mr. Schultz had given him the buff envelope which contained his salary and his cong� had been deadening, and the feeling had numbed him for the whole day. The Princess Galva A Romance Fēsal may well have watched with jealous anxiety the growing strength of his neighbour’s state as compared with his own, where all progress was arrested by the deadening tyranny of religious fanaticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" For that is what it is, dear—just poverty; and poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper The words of the peasant orator, like waves of flame, rolled over him, rising and falling with deadening regularity, till at last they filled and oppressed his brain. The Undying Past In the life-story of Claudius we may discern something of the reaction that was already taking place in many quarters against the deadening influence of Rationalism. The Story of Our Hymns He had hit on a new and brilliant idea, and the hopes of carrying it out brightened for a time the deadening monotony of his existence. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers They spoke cautiously, with the smile of cool conversation on their lips, deadening the sound of their voices, casting indifferent glances around them, to see whether they could be overheard. Majesty A Novel The deadliest foe of humanity is the deadening power of custom. Victory out of Ruin The thought sent a deadening chill through Janet and for a moment she closed her eyes to the red spectacle. Janet Hardy in Radio City How deadening it all was, and how lethal the draughts sold here. A Bed of Roses The tendency of this life is always to flatten one’s thoughts, like one’s actions, to a gray uniformity—a deadening routine. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York Probably there are peoples who pride themselves on more or less complete escape from monopoly who are nevertheless suffering from the most deadening bureaucracy. The Holy Earth In the present conflict we have been pacific owing to the division of our sympathies, the deadening realisation of the immense forces engaged and losses incurred, and the realisation that our interests were not involved. American World Policies He has no longer a poetical will, and must be content to write out of those parts of himself which are too delicate and fiery for any deadening exercise. The Cutting of an Agate But the deadening pain was merciful to him, it made him apathetic. The Orphan This naturally has a deadening effect on the conversation. Confessions of an Opera Singer His feelings had undergone no diminution, no deadening by reason of change and excitement and peril. Harley Greenoak's Charge A gulf, a chasm, seemed to open under her feet, paralysing her faculties, deadening everything. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance During his long, weary march into this captivity the thought of her had simply maddened him, until the fever had reached its more prostrating stage; deadening, perhaps mercifully, the more acute mental throes. In the Whirl of the Rising And even the Deity seems veiled by this deadening, suffocating mist!” The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Without having witnessed such a desecration in this or some similar edifice, it is impossible to conceive the deadening effect it produces on the feeling of admiration such a building ought to excite. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The dead lift of the discipline of the mind is liable to be a deadening process. Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College To the two waiting humans on the great sacrificial stone came a deadening of the senses, as an executioner, armed with strange torturing instruments, drew near. Brood of the Dark Moon On the dog their action is, in my opinion, always beneficial; and were they not directly so, the influence they possess in deadening pain would be sufficient reason to justify their adoption. The Dog At intervals Corse was unconscious, but rallied from time to time, as though the spirit within him crowded itself up through the physical deadening of his senses. The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864 Some books are vacant, some are deadening, some are pestilential. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home By the time the second round was fired the "deadening" was clear of all the rebels but those who had been struck. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign He does not yet know how deep-seated it is, and how mighty and extensive its influence is in deadening our hearts, and controlling our national action. A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church Tobacco satisfies hunger somewhat by deadening the parts of the body that are calling for food. Health Lessons Book 1 It is almost impossible to describe the deadening influence which a routine embodying the reverse of these four things has upon the mind of those who should be artists. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass Revolting against the superimposition of parental personality, the more deadening because childhood is imitative, they have begun to hearken to Emerson's counsel to insist upon themselves. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Beyond the "deadening" came a horde of pursuing rebels, firing and yelling like demons. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign They struggled silently in the darkness, the carpet deadening their footfalls. Timar's Two Worlds He gave her no time to object, but went back to the hut, and in to solitude and a deadening fire. Old Crow Down below, where the pathway opened into the street, he now and then saw a dark shape reel past and disappear in the night like a shadow, the soft snow deadening the footfall. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Then the rumble of cannon was growing steadily heavier the further they advanced, deadening most other sounds pretty much all the time. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France They had scarcely done so when the rebels came surging through the "deadening" in a torrent. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign Was his strength, like Samson's, shorn away with the hair of his head; or can it be that that lazy sermon of Mr. Mills' got in its deadening effects at bed-time? Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews March on, O Comrades, strong and free, out of darkness, out of silence, out of hate and custom's deadening sway! Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View In their secret hearts every one of them was glad that in the deadening monotony of their garrison life this affair, painful as it was, was now assuming tangible proportions. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Narcotics and Intoxicants In most parts of the word man has found out some way of stimulating, soothing, or deadening his animal system by means of plants or drugs. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 A few began firing that way, but the majority started to run back across the "deadening" to the sheltering woods. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign Against this gradual deadening of active individuality, the result of a perverted study of the classics, we find now reacting The Philanthropic Ideal.145 the education of enlightenment, which we generally call the philanthropic. Pedagogics as a System Wherever there is a deadening, however, you will find him, and in the dead tops and limbs of high trees he makes his home. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 One may grieve, honestly and deeply, without wearing away the cheeks or burning out the heart, for there is a soft sorrow which lies upon the soul like a deadening mist upon the autumn fields. The Bondboy We all know the deadening effect of poetry which has too great uniformity of metric pattern; and verses of "The boy stood on the burning-deck" type are considered thoroughly "sing-song." Music: An Art and a Language Unless Miss Ocky's suspicions were wide of the mark, he, too, had come under the deadening influence of Varr's dominance—ah! but had he entirely? The Monk of Hambleton August with its deadening heat was over; September, bright, sunny and tonic, was come to revive the world. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Just why the monastery gates had opened to him after two years’ deadening confinement, Josè had not been apprised. Carmen Ariza And what was more cruelly sad and crushing and deadening than dependence? The Benefactress It almost seemed to me as deadening as the sluice of dreary Styx. Nirvana Days Was his strength, like Samson’s, shorn away with the hair of his head; or can it be that that lazy sermon of Mr. Mills’ got in its deadening effects at bedtime? A Manual of the Art of Fiction A murky pall of depression hung over his brain, deadening his sense of proportion for all those things that matter. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country The deadening thought that he had accomplished nothing in his vitiated life yielded to a hopeful determination to yet retrieve past failure. Carmen Ariza Satisfied with this, he set off at a trot, the velvety grass deadening his steps. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam For us the battle passes in silence, the noise of one's motor deadening all other sounds. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Memory closed upon him like a deadening cloud and drenched his hurt soul with sorrow. The Eye of Dread By the most vigorous ironies, the most industrious witty remarks, she made me feel how thoroughly she disapproved of anything so deadening as marriage, home and settling down, in this glorious age of new ideas. The Harbor We have seen, however, above, that the local color of water, while it comparatively refuses dark reflections, accepts bright ones without deadening them. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But however far this operation may be carried, its utmost effect is but the deadening and approximating the sensations of beauty and ugliness. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Nevertheless, their moral sense is sterile because it is suffocated by passions and the deadening force of habit. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso A soldier said to me: "My two years in dep�t and camp were absolutely deadening; that eight weeks at the front before I was knocked over were the best eight weeks I ever had." Another Sheaf It is, however, fortunate for such men as he, and others among the heavily burdened, that the exhaustion of the body has its deadening effect upon the mind. The Greater Power As yet his despair was so terrible that his mind and heart were numbed to a sort of stupefaction, deadening the horror of his pain. The Twins of Suffering Creek This is one of the most deadening devices that we have instituted to economize gray matter and increase the quantity of laboratory records at the expense of real initiative and thinking. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College In every direction the heavy mallets of calkers could be heard hammering away in deadening regularity. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Never has there been a religion more depressing, more hopeless, more deadening to all initiative. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Therefore, the ultimate inefficiency that would arise from the deadening paralysis of bureaucracy has not yet had full opportunity for development. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work Handicapped by these foreign parasites who were systematically deadening the force of its arm, the Russian nation stood its ground and Germany drew the sword. England and Germany Closer and closer they came, the soft turf deadening the noise of their coming. The Carroll Girls Not even the calmest and best ordered of Spanish minds can resist a tendency to excess of all sorts, to over-elaboration, to grotesquerie, to deadening mannerism. Rosinante to the Road Again From a gash which had been cut in the lead box, a heavy gray fog was rising and enveloping everything in its deadening blanket. Poisoned Air He was only half conscious of his sufferings, but they were dully insistent, above the deadening influence of the liquor. Louisiana Lou A Western Story This is done for the better appearance of the table linen, for the deadening of sound, and the protection of the table from the heated dishes. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society There is a deadening thought of uselessness which creeps into many men's minds—the thought which has been best expressed by the Preacher in Ecclesiastes. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Its tremendously vivid painting of inertia and the deadening under its weight of intellectual effort made a very profound impression in Spain. Rosinante to the Road Again Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions I think perfect agreement must be rather monotonous and deadening. Our Bessie You see, in spite of all the deadening influences, all the horror of her married life, she had remained a child. The Belovéd Vagabond The hide proved to be of but little value for the purpose of deadening the sound, and only made the draught heavier. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government "The drug that paralyses without deadening the sense of pain," Beth interposed. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Custom hardens human beings to any kind of degradation, by deadening that part of their nature which would resist it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Soon the haze of the noonday heat would hang upon the earth, deadening the purity of its color, and making the air heavy and oppressive with faint overladen perfumes. The New Tenant “I could fight,” she said, “a visible devil, but this struggle with moods and tastes is deadening.” Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange A cold breath seemed to blow upon the little silken hair-tendrils at the nape of her white neck, spreading a creeping, stiffening horror through her body, deadening sensation, paralysing every limb. The Dop Doctor We are bound to give full weight to this, however much we rightly deplore the deadening effect of monotonous and mechanical toil on so large a part of the population. Progress and History Unyielding obstinacy in discussion is deadening to conversation, and yet the extreme contrary is crippling. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it He crept for the cave, and Dan'l at his heels, the sand deadening all sound of their footsteps. Merry-Garden and Other Stories His ambitions were already sullied by many unworthy and deadening ideas. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange A thin fog hung over the West End, deadening the sound of traffic, and dimming the polish of the tall plate-glass windows. The Dop Doctor A teacher who hasn't—kills it in the child; at least, all the pressure of unlit teaching is a deadening weight upon the child's imagination. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Conversation at its highest is the most delightful of intellectual stimulants; at its lowest the most deadening to intellect. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Guy led the way at once across country to the eastward, the soft English turf so deadening their hoof-beats that those behind them had no clue to their change of route. The Panchronicon Does one yearn for a Way that is no more when deadening shock has wiped it out? The Beginning The taste of Vienna, however, was capricious; and cabals among singers and critics succeeded in deadening the effect of his Figaro, when first brought out, and in thoroughly disgusting Mozart with the Viennese opera. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. It is time we got rid of it, for it has had a blighting, deadening influence upon hopeful endeavour for the good of the race. The New Theology A system so inelastic, and so deadening to all initiative, could have but one result. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" His mental lethargy and want of ambition under the deadening reservation system have had much to do with the outcome. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American Education under such conditions would have a deadening effect, or it would prove a discipline of the most bracing kind, fostering habits of independence and self-reliance. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington Let the youth, then, who turns with shame from such examples of inconsistency, beware of a habit so hardening to the conscience, so deadening to the soul. Select Temperance Tracts And as it passes hear it yell, “I’m the deafening, deadening, thunderous, hideous, competent, elegant el.” Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Corrigan stopped to catch his breath before he hurled himself forward, and this respite, brief as it was, helped the other to shake off the deadening effect of the blow. 'Firebrand' Trevison It may be from a distance, to an outsider," said Tom; "but I don't know—it's an awfully chilly, deadening kind of place to live in. Tom Brown at Oxford Then picking up the lamp he placed it under the table, thus deadening its glow. A Village of Vagabonds It cannot indeed be otherwise with the rapid circulation of the blood, nor need it excite wonder that such patients are thin and debilitated by the deadening of the powers of absorption, assimilation and elimination. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis This was not the first occasion on which the unhappy lady had felt herself obliged to resort to deadening drugs 52 to enable her to bear the presence of Angus Anglesea in the house. Her Mother's Secret It thudded heavily upon the boards of the floor an instant later, a shriek of fear mingling with the sound as he went down in a heap from a vicious, deadening blow from Trevison’s fist. 'Firebrand' Trevison The fogs are to be charged to the serious discount of suburban life; still more the snow-storms, which are more deadening to sound and less capable of illumination. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 She caught her breath, then little by little again the motherly warmth stole up into her breast deadening for the moment the pain of her jealousy. A Village of Vagabonds Men who have worked in the deadening influence of the Gobelins declare that the factory cannot last much longer. The Tapestry Book Why not?" said Hoodie, "there's lots about deadening in the Bible and in the church books, so it can't be naughty. Hoodie The monotony of the plains is as deadening as is the lack of contact of the mountain valley; and both fields offer fruitful ground for the spread of unsocial types of religious expression. Church Cooperation in Community Life What if he wears a convict's dress?—his soul is yoked to no deadening burden. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time But in heathen society, the whole atmosphere is entirely different; it is a choke-damp to all activity, and it falls on the senses with a benumbing and deadening influence. Thoughts on Missions He became so quarrelsome as the night went on that his comrades filled him up with drink, in the hope of deadening his ruffled sensibilities. The House with the Green Shutters But when he essayed to 163 drive in the right, it was blocked, and Randerson’s right, crooked, rigid, sent with the force of a battering ram, landed fairly on Masten’s mouth, with deadening, crushing effect. The Range Boss She declines her brother's sympathy, and wonders that he can suppose "the deadening drudgery of the world" can imprison a soul in its caverns. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies Even poems about whose fitness all judges agree should be omitted rather than run the risk of deadening them for children by a dead and formal handling. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes A field of such trees he called a deadening. Blue Ridge Country His massive paunch placed deadening strictures on his credentials as the impersonator of heroes. The Goose Man My arm and shoulder did not recover from the stinging and deadening sensation for some time. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner But it is the tranquillity of deep, deadening grief, almost despair. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Their work is, for the most part, deadening. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends There are deadenings with the lowland corn growing high and rank below and the bleached, fire-blackened girdled trees rising above, barren of leaf and limb. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights A stupefying, deadening odour of decayed flowers struck them in the face. The Goose Man The last spring rain was over; the dry, deadening California summer had begun its advance on the land. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Day after day, as his strength returned, it was but natural that he should grow more and more weary of monotonous indolence, and more and more impatient to escape from its depressing, deadening thraldom. Fairy Fingers A Novel I find that my affections are daily deadening to the things of earth, and my desires for any earthly good decreasing. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada But knowing the deadening miasma of race prejudice that hangs over, envelops and stifles us so often, I shall dwell briefly upon the nature of the crime committed by the defendant. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist It is thought by some that natural science has a deadening influence on the imagination, and a doubt might fairly be raised as to the value of any study which would necessarily have this effect. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 There was a heavy deadening silence in Ascher's private office, and our voices, when they broke it, sounded like the cheeping of ghosts. Gossamer 1915 The wages of sin is death.—The penalty of each particular vice we have seen to be the dwarfing, stunting, decay, and deadening of that particular side of our nature that is effected by it. Practical Ethics No more deadening system for the intellect could possibly have been devised. The New World of Islam He was not aware that that very delight in immunity which prompted resolutions not to entangle himself again, was deadening the sensibilities which alone could save him from entanglement. Romola Deeper grew the deadening of his ears, and orientation was lost. Instinct But there are very many other substances, less poisonous, whose occasional application would accomplish the same result, and without deadening, at the same time, the sensibilities of the whole system, as tobacco does. The Young Man's Guide Just in so far as one cuts himself off from the moral order which is the expression of God's will; just in so far as there is sin, there is privation, deadening, and decay. Practical Ethics In his rage he had been absolutely blind, each blow deadening prudence, calling for another blow. Shining Ferry The great ships are the ships to do the business, they quite deadening the enemy. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 The deadening influence of the Georges had not yet quite prevailed against letters and art. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I All the vile, diluted whisky that could be bought on the quiet was in use for the deadening or the heightening of emotion. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We have seen that there is a natural principle in man lowering him, deadening him, pulling him down by inches to the mere animal plane, blinding reason, searing conscience, paralyzing will. Natural Law in the Spiritual World It is the lounging, deadening brain-work of which we have too much, not the active, vivifying brain-work of which we have too little, that does injure the system. The Education of American Girls It is deadening to him, to his work, and to his employer. The Book of Business Etiquette As the plane proceeded to retrace the course so recently followed the lad brought the machine to a higher level and cut in the muffler, entirely deadening the clamor of the motors. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol But here the mental distress was only the feeble reflection of a crushing and deadening material torture. The Choice of Life One remembers Darwin's sorrowful admission, that the deadening of his spiritual instincts left him incapable of enjoying, or even tolerating, the rhythm of the poet's verse. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles In the 40's clearing was still done by deadening, felling, and by burning, the greater part of the timber not being necessary or suitable for sawed lumber or rails. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 An expression of deadening hate flashed for a moment across the red face, and the white eye closed again. Tess of the Storm Country Nevertheless, despite the deadening of time, the mother-yearning over her child's loneliness never wholly left the poor Princess. The Genius The emotional atmosphere, too, is sure to be abnormal, unnatural, and spiritually deadening. On the Firing Line in Education What! if anteriorly to the sentence he lives and converses with worse men, some of whom console him by deadening the sense of shame, others by removing the apprehension of punishment? Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The hardening, deadening power of depraving habits and customs was strikingly illustrated by the Romans. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Their influence is deadening, and, if strong enough, kills as surely as a bullet. Papers on Health The prosaic life and surroundings of the slum child are sufficiently deadening, and the new mental pictures thus given are in the nature of windows opening on new vistas of life. Spirit and Music Meredith has always been in wholesome revolt against convention, against every deadening limitation of art, but he sometimes carries revolt to the point of anarchy. Figures of Several Centuries But a curiously dull, deadening feeling came over me, as I felt that the Indians must now get there first, and that we should be too late to give the alarm. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah Then, seeing the glow it cast become less, we both seized upon armfuls of wood and threw them on, deadening the flame so that the space around was comparatively dark. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea There was a good broad green marge to the lane about here, and he stepped on to it, the turf deadening his footsteps. Cutlass and Cudgel How heavy a bill Nature collects of him in whom the sexual instinct has been permitted to taint the whole life with illicit thoughts and deeds, stultifying the intellect, deadening the sensibilities, dwarfing the soul! Pushing to the Front There are no rural slums for the breeding of poverty and crime; but on the other hand, there is an isolation and monotony that tend to become deadening in their effects on the individual. New Ideals in Rural Schools Oh! how is this to be prevented without a separation?—how is the poison to be avoided without deadening the sting? The Home He filled the dishpan full of water, dumped the sand-laden tubers in, and attacked them with a brush in vigorous relief at the change from deadening inactivity. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life There are many to-day who have separated themselves from the services of the church, from the fellowship of the saints, because of a deadening indifference. Sermons on Biblical Characters Sin, at first a bed of thorns, after a time becomes comfortable through the deadening of moral sensibility. Pushing to the Front As an ingenious instrument for arresting the mental growth of the child, and deadening all his higher faculties, it has never had, and I hope will never have, a rival. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular She had come into his life suddenly as a large part of it, that deadening financial part that tied him hand and foot and made him feel like a galley slave. The Secret of the Storm Country No doubt they had been present at many similar scenes, and custom is a deadening factor. The Shrieking Pit So intent were we both that neither had seen Jacques leave us, nor had either heard the swift hoof beats of a horse upon the deadening sand, until the rider was full upon us. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV A year after their return to their own country, the deadening, non-progressive atmosphere about them had done its work. Pushing to the Front Any drug which has this deadening effect on the nerves is called a narcotic; and it is in this class that alcohol belongs, together with the stronger narcotics, opium, chloroform, ether, and chloral. A Handbook of Health Then the great Dream Compeller took pity upon him, deadening thought, feeling, consciousness itself, till the pipe fell from between his fingers,—and he slept. The Great Amulet Though the atmosphere was heavy and deadening, my eyes were so watchful that not even the uprising of some weeds, trodden down, perhaps, hours before by a passing foot, escaped their notice. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories In many ways we are more defenceless against these deadening habits than the people of Europe. A Preface to Politics The house was a log cabin in the midst of a few acres of deadening,—ground from which trees have been cleared by girdling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 In short, we must conclude that the so-called stimulating effects of alcohol are really due to its power of deadening us to sensations of discomfort or fatigue. A Handbook of Health In the course of their development they revolted against the deadening rule of the church and claimed for the human mind the right to reason independently. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera And usually, in addition to lack of use, the deadening, benumbing pressure from a wrong truss was partly responsible for that withered or deadened condition of the muscles. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured It seems reasonable, on the evidence herein presented, to class alcohol among the narcotic or “deadening” drugs, such as ether or chloroform. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science They carried the stretcher on which lay the murdered body of the son of the house up the broad staircase, the thick carpets deadening the sound of their steps. Banzai! by Parabellum When dull November's misty shroud, All Nature's charms depress, Flinging a damp, dark, deadening cloud, O'er each heart's joyousness. Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect But his spiritual sight was blinded by a firm, deadening blankness! Joyce of the North Woods It may have been that his fixed idea had begun to spread like a disease over his other sensibilities, hardening and deadening the tissue, so that he did this kind of thing unconsciously. Foe-Farrell The cigarette is decidedly harmful, especially when inhalation is practiced, its deadening effects being in part due to the wrappers, some of which have been shown to contain arsenic and other poisonous drugs. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Then also there was in each a deadening, flaming sense of guilt. A Certain Rich Man Its decline is patent—but not until long afterwards—in a deadening of effort, in a hardening of style. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters She went to a theatre that night, and later to a dance, but neither entertainment served to lift the deadening weight from her spirits. The Swindler and Other Stories A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 The original intuitions, which had been encumbered with degrading superstitions and deadening ceremonies, again declared their power and their persistence, though sometimes under disguises which rendered them hard to recognise. Nature Mysticism He mounted a fiery horse, that which had borne him forward to victory in Greece; he fatigued himself with deadening exercise, losing the pangs of a troubled mind in animal sensation. The Last Man Development and animation are impossible wherever an art is governed by this sterile and deadening code of law. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres What, after all, were those thousands who wended their way every morning to the great beehives of Uncle Sam but slaves chained to an occupation which was deadening? Contrary Mary The desert life was so deadening that any kind of a change would have been welcome. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Faster than ever he moved, the pat-pat of his feet on the deadening snow drowning the sound of the great breaths he drew into his lungs and sent whistling out again through his nostrils. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman The deadening of my spark of hope weakened me. Pieces of Eight Her school is a place of life, eager, yearning, pulsating life, and not a place of dead and deadening silence. The Vitalized School His confession of the night before had brought with it no deadening sense of hopelessness. Contrary Mary "I have no right to judge you, Mr. Nash," answered the schoolmaster; "but I should think that the work of hunting down law-breakers would have the effect of deadening one's sensibilities." Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The poor man, probably, does not overrate the gratification of newly-attained wealth; what he fails to allow for is the deadening effect of an unbroken experience of ease and plenty. Practical Essays A fairly attentive study of modern lyrical verse has persuaded me that this exclusiveness may be carried too far, and threatens to be deadening. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 The machine teacher.—Such work is deadening and disheartening. The Vitalized School Symbols of power, of material and deadening splendor; eternal accompaniments of imperial magnificence! The Black Pearl Our life, of which a third part is flatly bourgeois and the two other parts present just about the same dangers as, say, chemical works do, will end by deadening all sensibility. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 Thorough preparation, moreover, minimizes the likelihood of routine, the monotony of which is always deadening. Principles of Teaching Thus it is, properly speaking, not work, but tedium, the most deadening, wearing process conceivable. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 He did not turn to face them until the footman's cockade had disappeared finally behind the tall hedge, and the tramp of the horses' feet was deadening itself in the lane. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" Here men saw no vitality in the hand that ruled: hence they maudled through that deadening scum of servile life that tramples better things beneath its feet. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth It is plain therefore that, in that loss of zest and interest, which the deadening of the moral sense, as we have seen, must bring to life, we shall get no help there. Is Life Worth Living? The rush of it drowned the crying voice of the nerves, deadening for a while both consciousness and pain. The House of the Vampire This is the factor that keeps the toiler free from the deadening effects of mechanical routine. Craftsmanship in Teaching Ali's rod did not even leave his belt, it tilted up and the invisible deadening stream from it centered upon the seated tech. Plague Ship And all the trials and separations of life, instead of deadening their love for one another, or making them forget one another, had only drawn the two men the closer to one another. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents The world outside is always with us and acting in this way, distracting thought, p. 183setting up its own standards, drawing us into its channels, and deadening the Spirit in us. Sermons at Rugby Of all human affections, this, the first that takes root in the infant's heart, is the last to die out under the blighting influence of vice, the deadening blows of time. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Above all, it tempts us to a hard and fast acceptance of its own formulas, an acceptance as deadening to progress as it is false to the scientific spirit itself. Inquiries and Opinions The facts are self-evident, and follow from principles, without involving any extraneous acquaintance with life or literature, and no deadening memory work is required. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar Ishmael was not the only one who felt a deadening of the spirit that night, and even on awakening the following morning. Secret Bread For the children's room linoleum will probably stand the wear and tear, prove more hygienic, and do as much toward deadening noise as anything short of an impossible padding could do. The Complete Home She fell, soundlessly, her head striking the edge of a chair with a deadening, thudding crash. Square Deal Sanderson A deadening hand seemed to cover the night. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Thus are produced castes, with their deadening opposition to all progress; and thus arise crusades, wars of religion and persecutions. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar Most men work under the deadening effect of impersonal routine. The Business of Being a Woman Ardan was the first to recover from the deadening shock: his levity came to his relief. All Around the Moon Would the triumph of socialistic principles result in deadening personal ambition? The Art of Public Speaking Superstitions are not conscience; they are ignorance obscuring and deadening conscience. The Ascent of the Soul Saints and ascetics without end and of many persuasions have resorted to bodily pain as a means of deadening the imagination and exalting the will or spirit. Marietta A Maid of Venice He explained, too, his method of deadening the hollowness of the sound if the panel were knocked upon, by placing pads of felt on struts of wood that would be set against the panel-door. Come Rack! Come Rope! It is unfortunate that on earth it is commonly believed, owing to the deadening influence of material causes, that beyond the grave everything is done with a Divine unanimity. The Child of the Dawn Man stood erect in majesty, The proud defender of his rights: For where is he would not be free From stern oppression's deadening blights! The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Lem Wacker lay with his foot bandaged up, conscious, and in no intense pain, for the surgeon had given him some deadening medicine. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Perhaps the requirement of knowledge at firsthand for children has sometimes been pushed a little too far, with a deadening effect, for the progress of such knowledge is very slow and laborious. The Education of Catholic Girls Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn. The Flower of the Chapdelaines He knew only too well that fine web of soothing compromise, with which people were in the habit of deadening their consciences. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel When girls are able to live,—not simply exist in the deadening monotony of alternation between work and sleep,—their heightened mental activity, interest, and enthusiasm will prove a valuable asset to employers. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Small wonder that she kept him when she could from the seat of that wagon and from the deadening influence of a father to whom Romance had broken its fine promises. Bunker Bean Night and the March moon awake the winter-dormant wilderness from the white man's deadening spell. The Firing Line |
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