英语词汇“enervate”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Avoid it unless the meaning is clear. enervating. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCoy feared that the rarefied air in the Enterprise was enervating the crew. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may attempt to defend your enervating use of the passive voice by pointing out that the only alternative is excessive reliance upon the first person personal pronoun or upon the pontifical We. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the contrary: if something’s enervating, it drains you of energy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and I am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if I were able to afford it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat wave in Austria, he traveled from Brno to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.” Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

This hyperventilated quality initially serves the story and Chazelle’s concept of the era’s delirious excess, but the lack of modulation rapidly becomes enervating. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The enervating, would-be laugh-in “The Comedian” opens this week, presumably on the strength of its headliner, Robert De Niro. Review: Robert De Niro as ‘The Comedian,’ a Has-Been Seeking a Comeback 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability. Lizz Wright’s ‘Grace,’ an Ode to the South and to Forgiveness 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

There is a seriousness to Ruben and Carlos’s relationship that becomes enervating. ‘Luz’ Review: Love In and Out of Lockup 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Of course they’d have been enervated by the universal franchise, but they would have found it horrifying that people have the vote and don’t vote. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Heartfelt but enervated, “Song One” noodles around the Brooklyn music scene without stirring up magic. Anne Hathaway Falls for a Crooner in ‘Song One’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

When the storm finally breaks, an enervated calm falls over the stage, slowing down the dance to a bleak stillness. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z

Unlike, say, the Abba songbook, there isn’t much sonic variety or weirdness to distinguish one peppy dance number from the next, and too much Go-Go’s can blend into one enervating beat. “Head Over Heels,” Reviewed: A Trans-Positive Spin on a Sixteenth-Century Romance, with Help from the Go-Go’s 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

There are times, particularly during the enervating summer season, when it can seem as if Hollywood has forgotten how to put on a really big — and great — show. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z

As matters moral are endlessly chewed over in Greek tragedy, so Hero’s decision is examined from all sides, with slightly enervating results. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The inventive — and enervating — quality of McGregor’s novel derives not only from its refusal to bend to conventional thriller expectations, but also from its form. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

I was very conscious of the fact that readers were no less spent; no less pinched for time or enervated by illness and uncertainty as my own family. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

But his dissolving into babble was probably the lowest point for me of a generally highly enervating episode. ‘The Night Manager’ Episode 4: Searching Looks and Alleged Drum Beats of Tension 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it’s a confused and frequently enervating effort. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The compact, razor-sharp McKenna Birmingham performs a frenzied solo that shows Mr. Feld’s proclivity for interlocking movement; yet instead of creating a meditative whole, the repetitive phrases become enervating. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z

In the wrong hands, this could get enervating—too much too muchness, like the Transformers films. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

The format was clunky and enervating, too, killing off the few funny lines. Happy Tuesdays 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the bloated “Certified Lover Boy,” released last year, was his least focused album, and also his least imaginative — he sounded enervated, fatigued with his own ideas. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

She is defending herself against an enervating kind of relationship, and she really does sound exhausted. A debut well worth the wait from political D.C. punks Priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“So enervated that it’s like a vampire movie after the vampires have left,” the critic Pauline Kael wrote at the time in The New Yorker. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

At other times, “Careless Crime” feels rather enervating, the film’s political charge and the pathos of its characters diffused by Mokri’s mathematical zeal. ‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

And yet it is this same spirit of irrelevance that animates — or, more accurately, enervates — Mr. Meltzer’s television venture. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z

Among the takeaways from the play is how enervating it can be to have to plead constantly for access and understanding. ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

He suffered a major heart attack that brought on congestive heart failure, enervating him and curtailing his income from writing. William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The actors are energized, but the camera enervates. Review: Strong Performances Anchor ‘The Tribes of Palos Verdes’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa’s prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The discussions can be enervating, enlightening or infuriating, depending on who is on which side of the food fight. How breaking news got panelized: On cable, journalists and pundits increasingly share space. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

This time, the exercise is a different proposition, and thankfully nowhere near as enervating. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

Expelled from the confines of her bedroom and the enervating control of her parents, she emerges as a classic Hannah heroine girded for the harrowing adventures ahead. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

So welcome to the most lopsided and enervating Venice Biennale in recent memory, which came together amid a global pandemic and now opens under the sign of a European land war. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

We prefer wines that are nimble and energetic, that refresh the palate rather than enervate. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

But in retrospect, I was fortunate to be too enervated to read much social media or to take in any reviews. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Visually barren and somewhat enervated, the movie nevertheless has a powerful sense of implacable fate — Lang’s not least. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

They yearn to be free from the violent, enervating menace of white racism, and to flourish in the elusive American promised land. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

It has a very enervating effect on our society and our economy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

And so Friday’s early set was casual, stylized, spare, genial, dreamy and, except for about four minutes near the end, almost enervated, frustratingly low-impact. Music Review: Bill Frisell and Friends Play Venerable Country Tunes 2014-01-19T22:08:32Z

And this “Hothouse,” like “Mission Drift,” reminds us of the theatrical energy to be minded from enervated empires. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z

We dutifully attend enervating screeds like today’s double feature in the Competition. Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus 2012-05-18T15:27:07Z

By the humid, enervating end of August, the Hamptons social circuit can feel like the world’s longest dance party for rich white people. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

It must be time for another enervating parade of go-getters and their bad personalities to bore on about their passion for business to Lord Sugar and co. TV highlights – 07/05/2013 2013-05-07T06:00:01Z

But for all its kicking and shooting, the movie suggests the action equivalent of enervated 1970s European soft-core: all diffuse, sun-drenched exteriors populated by attractive stars on an exotic working vacation. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But over all the tone was strident and enervating. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z

In “Illusive,” a string octet, Mr. Moon evoked a difficult adjustment to New York with a wayward litany of pops, shivers and shrieks, by turns agitated and enervated. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z

A nurse in a pediatric hospital, Laura veers between the emotional highs and enervating lows of emergency medicine, subsisting on caffeine and a hard-wired sense of duty. Review | Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Within its furious action, it delivers surprisingly simplistic gratifications that are no less enervating for the positive feelings that they generate. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z

Comedy is, after all, divisive; performers will often play to a room in which some individuals are enthralled and others enervated. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the gaffer of gaffer? 2012-08-16T10:35:41Z

This enervating film runs only 81 minutes, but it feels endless as Greer and the actors flail trying to get the comic timing to spark. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Restrained and intense, Mr. Rose’s performance was as powerful and troubling a representation of the enervating effects of the closet — effects demonstrated by the resolute aloofness of Britten’s opera — as Heath Ledger’s in “Brokeback Mountain.” Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z

“We the People” is, alas, an enervating spectacle. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

Yet the strength of “Sahkanaga,” its respect for its material and its characters, is also its weakness: a reverent pace that can be as enervating as a muggy day. Movie Review: John Henry Summerour’s ‘Sahkanaga’ 2012-12-07T02:14:58Z

But the effort to be everything to everyone is enervating, and no doubt exhausting. Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Clichéd, enervating, insulting — it’s tough to settle on a single pejorative for “Rock the Kasbah,” though abysmal might do. Review: In ‘Rock the Kasbah,’ Who Cares About War When There’s Money to Be Made? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

That single event prefaced the disintegration of our solid faith in government, fathering the now pervasive and enervating assumption that we no longer have control over our economic of political destiny. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Though she was energized during a face-to-face interview, a phone conversation last week found her more enervated, reflecting a hard new turn in her story. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

These bits and the plentiful excerpts from “Julius Caesar” feel, even if you know both plays, like an enervating amount of Shakespeare out of context. Review: In ‘The Brutes,’ the Actor Who Would Be an Assassin 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

I find it both energizing and enervating, and best engaged with in chunks so I can experience it and not become numbed by its force. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla. I made you birthday tacos, 873 miles away 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

They are not starving but are condemned to an enervating whittling away of their physical resources. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z

Other painters’ work seemed enervated next to his. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

And he acknowledged being worn, enervated and world-weary. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z

And for any theatergoer who participates in this movable junk-food buffet, “KPOP” is likely to come across as entertaining and enervating, in fairly equal measures. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon, and enervating, e.g., Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

They grow their own vegetables, refusing to eat the enervating state-supplied food. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

But far from being enervating, this helps to carry Johnson’s narrative along, allowing it to flow like a river. Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Raf Simons seemed enervated by this collection, which included belted jackets, quite a number of boyish shorts, and T-shirts in solid colors as well as grid patterns and deep-hued, splashy prints. Jil Sander: Detox 2010-06-18T14:46:00Z

For director Ridley Scott, it started a run of enervating historical action-dramas that included Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood and Exodus: Gods and Kings, none of which had the same propulsive kick. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

It's enervating, sunbaked and, for all that, rather thrilling. Wooden Shjips: West - review 2011-08-11T20:45:01Z

The close-knit clan is aloof and enervated in the face of ever tightening racial laws that will spell their demise. A Writer’s “Tomb of Words,” and the People Who Took It Personally 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

In truth, the enervating hash of dystopian dread, vague religiosity and commercial advertising-style uplift is nothing if not stale. ‘The Giver’ Adapts Lois Lowry’s Novel 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But now their sound was an enervating jangle, a burglar-alarm claxon. Music Review: Phil Kline’s ‘dreamcitynine’ at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012-08-05T21:31:18Z

But Massie expertly captures the privations of surrender: cheap cigars, undrinkable coffee and the enervating sense of being suspended in limbo. Dark Summer in Bordeaux by Allan Massie – review 2012-08-07T11:05:00Z

In high season, pushing through the crowds clogging the temple’s graceful walkways had become an enervating and dispiriting ordeal that few locals would willingly undergo. Kyoto Wants You Back, but It Has Some Polite Suggestions 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The omnipresence of vibraphones, strings and high winds became tinnily enervating over two hours, and I longed for the throaty bass clarinet that grounds Reich’s classic “Music for 18 Musicians.” Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

“You are shaken and insecure, and simultaneously enervated.” For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

That was my conclusion after spending the last two weeks of July taking in the offerings of both theaters: nine evenings of Wagner in 12 days, by turns exhilarating and enervating. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

But one theme he kept returning to, during the screed and in responses to journalists’ questions, was that of the disempowered black man, revived and ready to vanquish the enervating effects of women’s influence. Kanye West’s White House Monologue Flirted with the Language of the Men’s-Rights Movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It wasn't much interested in the world beyond the exhibitionist milieu of London's clubland in the early 1980s, which was both its enervating weakness and animating strength. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

In truth, as Toll implies, the MacArthur-Nimitz competition was never as enervating to the war effort against Japan as the American-British competition was in Europe. How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.” Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Here the ennui sometimes seeps into the narrative in a way that leaves stretches of the movie enervated and galumphing like a corpse. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z

More enervating is the plot’s allergy to any sustained tension. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes

At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy. New band of the day ? No 799: Ghostpoet 2010-06-02T14:50:00Z

Happily, this enervating mood of wintry discontent gives way to sprightly spring almost instantly after the intermission. | 'As You Like It': Love?s Hard, Comic Work, on a Stage Most Worldly 2011-07-08T23:04:48Z

But there was something oddly enervating about the programme. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z

For the onetime Rangers managing partner, it was an enervating finale to a championship that eluded him when he was signing the checks. A First Title for the Rangers, and a Thrill for the Former First Fan 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized. Game 7 loss can’t take away from Kraken team that ‘changed the landscape of hockey in Seattle’ 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy. Review: William Kentridge's sprawling Broad installation is an extraordinary meditation on apartheid 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.” Advice | Ask Amy: After 16 years, I’m done constantly giving my husband back rubs 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

And now, after an excruciating, maddening, interminable, at times enervating wait, that’s exactly where the Mariners are. As if these Mariners could clinch a playoff berth with anything other than dramatics 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

In humans most serotonin is synthesized in neurons that enervate smooth muscle cells lining the gastrointestinal tract. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z

He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z

Spinal nerves extend outward from the vertebral column to enervate the periphery. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z

The war in Ukraine, with its vicious swings in momentum, might be moving from ebullient optimism about Ukraine’s defiance toward a phase that’s closer to the long, enervating grind of the Korean War. Opinion | Biden hunkers down for a long, limited war in Ukraine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

An absurdist fantasia that skewers the idea of work as innately meaningful, “Tin Cat Shoes” layers digression upon digression, a knot of shaggy dog stories that’s amusing and enervating in about equal measure. Washington Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tin Cat Shoes’ takes an appealingly odd look at meaning of work 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand. China tries to cover lockdown strains on Shanghai’s front-line workers 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

“It will unsettle our national foundation,” he said, “enervating our national character and values.” How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in South Korea 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The lumbar plexus arises from all the lumbar spinal nerves and gives rise to nerves enervating the pelvic region and the anterior leg. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z

For progressive celebrators, “the risk of stifling, enervating, or devitalizing human society is not even part of their calculation.” Opinion | Witness how progressives in government forfeit the public’s trust 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

But they can still struggle to get a full picture of which providers can connect a future residence — and see not just download speeds but upload speeds, which can make video-chatting easy or enervating. Does the home you want to buy have good high-speed Internet? You may have to do some sleuthing to find out. 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Family crises that some might view as a call to action mostly just enervate her: She doesn’t need another reminder that middle age can be overwhelmingly hard and ponderously boring. Review | Bridget Everett’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ is 2022’s first great show 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Fluoride was being used to enervate Americans in advance of the coming communist occupation, he said. Op-Ed: Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

When U.S. troops were poised on the border of Iraq in 2003, U.S. officials didn’t consider the grinding, enervating war of counterinsurgency that lay ahead. Opinion | The Biden administration weighs backing Ukraine insurgents if Russia invades 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

There’s the crux of Mohamed’s artistry: Her clear-eyed acknowledgment of this man’s self-pity runs parallel to her piercing exposure of his society’s relentless, enervating prejudice. Review | In ‘The Fortune Men,’ a corrupt legal system frames an innocent man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The freedoms of speech and assembly place at their center a vocal and enervated citizenry. Opinion | Furious parents at school board meetings have a right to speak. We should listen to them. 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Just as Trump did all he could to enervate and deconstruct the federal government over which he presided, Thomas-Kennedy appears anxious to transform the city attorney into a public defender. Law & (Dis)Order: Seattle 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Only then can they find a way to enjoy the process, as enervating as it might be. Why Does Playing Tennis Make So Many Pros Miserable? 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

The massive gloom, the enervating buzzkill of Tuesday, seemed to have lifted every so slightly by game time Wednesday, before the Mariners ended the homestand that was supposed to determine the fate of their season. In his pursuit of club control, did Jerry Dipoto lose control of the Mariners by trading Kendall Graveman? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

What if a daily pursuit of a “masterpiece” is more enervating than it is energizing? ‘Good after good’ approach takes UW Huskies volleyball team from bad to great — and to Final Four 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

A great point, too, from David Hamlyn on the surprisingly enervating issue of quick free kicks’ being discouraged. Jesse Lingard and Tricks of the Light 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and other DC Comics superstars mash it up — again — in this enervating four-hour director’s cut, releasing on HBO Max. Critics can’t agree whether ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ is the worst or a knockout 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Clocking in at a jaw-dropping, enervating four hours, this maximalist undertaking is a bid for redemption in an industry that rarely bestows second chances. Review: 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' has arrived. It's been a long wait — and so is the movie. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

“I thought I knew what ‘enervating’ meant, but I looked it up anyway,” confesses Charles Antaki. Leicester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

The intractable, enervating war there is now part of Biden’s portfolio of misery. Opinion | Afghanistan is Biden’s first big foreign policy headache 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Far worse than the extended screen time were the moments she didn’t share, when she was too frustrated, in too much pain or too enervated to post anything at all. Opinion | My Daughter, TikTok Warrior 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Never mind that Orchid is still enervated after her own bout of influenza. Apocalypse playlist 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

But despite the talent involved, and the incredible subject matter, the irritating tendency to overexplain means there’s very little spark to be found in the enervating “Radioactive.” Review: ‘Radioactive's' flashes of innovation are not enough to illuminate Marie Curie 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Its newly enervated purpose was to “supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies” and to provide a “short-term stopgap buffer”. Exclusive: US has three months to rebuild medical supplies stockpile, Obama administration scientists warn 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Increasing political polarization has facilitated presidential power grabs by enervating congressional oversight, increasing the political loyalty of Cabinet officers, and eroding the norms and unwritten rules of the presidency. Perspective | Trump has handled the coronavirus the way he handles everything: Like a toddler 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate. Britain’s Brexit Shrug: Just ‘Get On With It’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In promulgating this bleak and enervating perspective, Monsieur Camus was inarguably on to something. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

It made for an eerie, echoey weirdly enervated atmosphere as the teams kicked off. Six minutes of added time for racism will live long in sporting infamy | Barney Ronay 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

In his resignation letter, Mr. McAleenan attributed his exit to “personal and family reasons” and described his tenure as “galvanizing and enervating.” Kevin McAleenan Resigns as Acting Homeland Security Secretary 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

But they share a quality of constant distraction, a permanent, enervating uncertainty about what they will get up to next. Just How Crazy Is Boris Johnson? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Game 2 was almost as extreme but not quite as enervating. London’s MLB crowd offers baseball a new land of opportunity | Matthew Engel 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

And yet, if anything, they seemed energized, not enervated, by their head-to-head battle with Woods. Tiger Woods Shook Up Golf at the Masters. It Might Be Just the Beginning. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement. Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Gates emphasizes that Reconstruction was destroyed not by white terrorism alone but also by a fiendishly complicated series of ever more enervating legal and practical assaults. How the South Won the Civil War 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Because the cornea is enervated, the prions, which prey on proteins found in neurons, may be reaching the surface via these tiny neural conduits. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

The form of the story seems no less enervating: like a long piece of reporting, with headlines, 17 of them — “Who was Burke? His Beginnings”; “Who is Blindman?” ‘If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

It certainly seemed that way at his West Virginia rally, where he appeared distracted and enervated. President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

They’re emotional, enervated wrecks, husks of their formerly composed selves, and all they want to do is just finish the recording and move on with their lives. Valve is still making Half-Life 3 jokes 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Chef Anthony Bourdain, whose visceral prose enervated his roving culinary programs, was mourned by fellow chefs, writers and fans Friday. Anthony Bourdain's death stuns celebrity colleagues and admirers 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Bearing the enervated ambience in mind, I asked Day whether there was a particular day, at an average event, when maintaining the necessary levels of concentration posed the greatest challenge. Jason Day is saving a star-challenged leaderboard at Quail Hollow - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

My initial fear was that "Avengers: Infinity War" would be a hopeless, planet-hopping traffic jam of a movie, a black hole of enervating cinematic chaos. 'Avengers: Infinity War': a rousing Marvel mash-up, or a truly epic tease? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Pars at 17 and 18 were pedestrian but pressure-free, a welcome respite from the enervating events of previous holes. An opening-round 73 at the Masters might have been the perfect start to Tiger Woods' major return (yes, we're serious). - Golf Digest 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was, as always, a long flight, stimulating in its scenic views, enervating in its length. 90th Academy Awards show speaks up yet keeps the smiles coming 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Indeed, there was something apropos, something viscerally congruent, with determining the winner of golf’s toughest tournament with a long and enervating playoff. The U.S. Open's 18-hole playoff dies a not-so-sudden—but much appreciated—death - Golf Digest 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Boredom is exhausting, enervating and debilitating for a driven professional. The career vs. future-potential-baby dilemma | Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

The solo show is one of Broadway’s best-established genres, but it’s also enervatingly unvaried. ‘John Lithgow: Stories by Heart’ Review: Jumping Off the Page 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Brazil and Colombia, recovering from enervating corruption scandals and a guerrilla insurgency respectively, planned restorative elections in 2018. Trump, Putin and Xi: a year of tough-guy leaders and foolish brinkmanship 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Ironically, the depression left me so enervated that I couldn't rouse myself to do any planning. Waiting for Depression to Lift 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

“I take full responsibility for the funny jokes and for the stuff everyone hated. It was so enervating,” he said. A failed sitcom could end your career. For John Mulaney, it was just the beginning. 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

At Swansea they struggled without Aaron Mooy in the first half, the midfielder dropping to the bench after an enervating week with Australia. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Especially as one of the most enervating weeks of his career approaches. The consummate wingman, Steve Stricker is ready to take the lead role at the 2017 Presidents Cup - Golf Digest 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

She also reiterated that her decision to use a private email server as secretary of State, which led to a politically enervating FBI probe, was “a dumb mistake.” Hillary Clinton, rehashing her loss in new book, emerges to less-than-enthusiastic reviews 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Liberals complain about being enervated, unable to concentrate. Nothing about the Trump presidency is normal. Keep remembering that | Francine Prose 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

An evening with so many scheduled high points, so many moments of focused energy, can have a cumulative enervating effect. Song-and-dance man Kevin Spacey displays fancy footwork during a sweet, corny and touching Tony Awards 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Modern America, with its enervating comforts — including cosseting parents — and present-minded education that produces cultural amnesia, must deliberately make its citizens. Opinion | The way to restore American self-reliance: Make kids work harder 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

An enervated marriage and a strained father-daughter relationship are observed from three perspectives. ‘The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories’: A lively return to short fiction 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But, as the activism increased, the classroom discussions occasionally seemed enervated, the participants vaguely distracted. An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Individual mileage will vary as to whether viewers find their accrued effect to be enlightening, enervating or simply infuriating. Review | ‘Song to Song’: Beautiful searchers seek meaning in Austin’s music scene 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Many philosophers, academics and artists were already sick of the mundane, transactional, enervating nature of democracy under leaders like Giovanni Giolitti, prime minister several times in the two decades preceding fascism. Trump and Mussolini: The same, only different? Eleven key lessons from historical fascism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

The usage is accepted and no different from “enervate.” Opinion | Nothing sexist about ‘emasculate’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

To add to the enervating claustrophobia, Trump further packed the lobby with staffers who proceeded to cheer raucously at all the right moments in the manner of canned laughter in a recorded TV show. Attempts to hold Trump to account only seem to make him stronger and stranger 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Decadent and enervated, the West lies vulnerable in the face of a confident and convicted Islamofascism, which is the cosmic threat of our time. Bannon’s battle for hearts and minds 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

“You need ‘The 25th Hour’,” he told an enervated university student, referring to a novel by Mr. Benioff. ‘Book Doctors’ Say What You Need Is a Good Read 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

When the Dust Bowl smothered Oklahoma, the Joads were not enervated, they moved west in search of work. Trump’s Carrier deal is the opposite of conservatism 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

In a time of exhausting demands on our attention — not least the enervating drama of the postelection news cycle — “Primitive Technology” acts as a quiet corrective, an escape from a surfeit of vanity and strife. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Primitive Technology’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

These and other incidents in a long and enervating season have prompted Bradshaw to step up efforts to deal with tanking. Men’s Tennis Wants to Crack Down on Tanking. But What, Exactly, Is Tanking? 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the end, helping ordinary North Koreans to end their isolation would do more than anything to undermine the regime’s myths and enervate its sinews. Evil genius 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

We're watching the grand narrative of reform growing dull and diffuse, its moral authority enervated. How Education Reform Lost Its Mojo 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated. Trump’s shallowness runs deep 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s enervating and requires focus — all hands must be on deck. TRAVEL: Charleston, West Virginia, offers adventures, culture and cuisine 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

An entire chapter of the memoir is devoted to a petty fight between his financially enervated parents over the cost of a Thai dinner and convenience-store dessert. Can an Addiction Memoir Help Us Understand Wall Street? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In this sense, at least, to be a Republican in the Age of Trump is exhilarating, if also enervating. Never-Trump Confidential 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

That annoyance is augmented by the delay when swiping to and from the camera viewfinder, rendering me both aggravated and enervated. Moto G4 Plus review: no 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Those families largely fund India’s political parties through vast unreported cash contributions, making any changes to the country’s endemic and enervating protectionism difficult to undertake. India’s Leader Ready to Bolster Ties With U.S., Thanks Partly to Donald Trump 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

First, the good news: We are very nearly to the end of this exhausting, enervating primary season. Dear God, let this primary season end: What to expect from Tuesday’s (already thoroughly bizarre) Indiana contests 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

"Effects are so overused that any conviction explodes in a giant fireball - indeed endless fireballs. The result is an enervating two and a half hours." Mixed reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Seven years later, when Strong was appointed a professor, Harvard hailed his efforts at “overcoming conditions which made life in the tropics almost impossible for white men and dangerous and enervating even to natives.” By retiring a seal, Harvard wages war on the dead — but to what end? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The teenager was crisp and brief while facing the excited media after his enervating innings. Pranav Dhanawade: The Indian boy who scored a record 1,009 runs - BBC News 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Chelsea’s players have looked enervated, disgruntled, even openly insubordinate ever since, tottering their way to nine Premier League defeats in 16 games, culminating in a thrillingly hapless 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Monday night. Adeus, José – a fittingly operatic departure for the game's first celebrity manager 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

With an evening of enervating boredom staring us in the face, we might as well root for some out-of-left-field questions: Expose Marco Rubio’s tax scam: Fox Business’ moderators want to show they’re serious. Here’s how they can 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

“It was so dear,” says Richards, but the encounter only enervated her. Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards: 'In this election, Roe v Wade is on the ballot' 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Formerly settled questions are being upended; our politics lacks a shared narrative; our entertainment infantilizes us; our media leaves us enervated. Pope Francis After America 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, Dickinson’s inaugural American tour with Iron Maiden for 1982’s Number of the Beast album was so enervating the band’s tour manager fell asleep standing up, sleepwalked off the stage and broke his wrist. Bruce Dickinson: ‘Hell would freeze over before I'd stop performing’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Somehow Spieth has avoided becoming drained or enervated or suffering a letdown from the effects of all that winning – something even British Open champion Zach Johnson couldn’t avoid, shooting 75 on Friday. Another major, another major run by the utterly unflappable Jordan Spieth 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Spieth, 21, is a technician and brilliant putter who plays position golf, but is struggling to keep his edge at the end of an enervating season that included victories at the Masters and U.S. Star-crossed? Sure, but Dustin Johnson is back in lead at the PGA 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

For moviegoers who don't want intrusive safety protocols, more security could make visiting a movie theater an enervating process. Lafayette shooting renews debate on movie theater security 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Cavaliers fans seemed enervated too, filtering quietly out of Quicken Loans Arena with several minutes left while Golden State fans repeated their melodic, almost haunting, "War-riors, War-riors" chant. NBA Finals: Stitched-up LeBron James needs to pull Cavaliers together 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In Munich he seemed energised not enervated by the prospect of getting to work on a team who are clearly in need of a little transitional working-over. Time for Pep Guardiola to impose his stamp on an ageing Bayern Munich side | Barney Ronay 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

These rising young leaders, Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee, were totally dedicated to elevating their enervated countries to incredible new heights of power and riches. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, Korea's Park Chung-Hee, Two Tough Leaders With Much In Common 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Patients coping with enervating symptoms and fears may find it impossible to search through hundreds of trials involving their disease. Living With Cancer: Clinical Trials Looking for Patients 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

This behavior is practiced to disconcert, divide, enervate and deliberately frustrate underlings and those who don't belong to the "tribe" or network in power. Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Why Women Stay Quiet at Work 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

This kind of carefully crafted rhetoric started, after forty years of independence, the project of culturally distinguishing the United States from its enervated former colonizers. How the Battle of New Orleans Birthed the American Character 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The word “Lebensbescheinigung” reminds me that I am the one who, given enervating cancer treatments, sometimes needs to prove to myself that I am alive. Living With Cancer: Playing the C Card 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In my experience, I suggest, Frieze provides exactly the enervating experience of a Saturday afternoon at Brent Cross shopping mall, except some of the stuff on sale is priced in the millions. Eric Fischl: ‘What America wants is artists who are doing very expensive toys’ 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

That balance is lacking in Gruden, whose down-by-down approach keeps him too fixated on formations — an approach that might excite his coach’s heart but can be enervating to viewers after repeated exposure to it. As an Analyst, Jon Gruden Needs a Lot of Coaching 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Republican George W. Bush defeated Clinton's vice president and preferred successor, fellow Democrat Al Gore, in no small part due to an enervating electoral affliction known as Clinton fatigue. How Bill Clinton, improbably, became America's favorite politician 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Well, you see, here's the thing. Immortality is lovely, of course, but it can be so ... enervating.” Investments : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Before Iyengar found yoga, he said many times, he was a sickly boy, enervated by tropical diseases. Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

For all that, there are many shots of skinheads lounging around, doing nothing, bored and enervated. Skinheads: a photogenic, extremist corner of British youth culture 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

If energizing is a goal, then enervating is a yellow flag. 4 Ways To Kill Vampires And Energize Your Growth 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

To buy this scenario would require you to believe that People is implicated in a grand conspiracy to keep Clinton’s enervated physical state from American voters. Why Clinton will run

Other strongmen who supervised the bloody purges of economically enervated and unproductive people were also ruthless majoritarians, consecrated by big election victories. The new face of India 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

To put it plainly, the U.S. isn’t a magnet for – even in its present enervated state – massive amounts of foreign capital because half of the population looks forward to a life of government support. Mitt Romney, The 'Say Anything' Pol Of The Republican Party 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

This particular routine enervates doctor and patient alike: The future probable is a pretty dull tense, summoning none of the adrenaline that attends acute fix-it-up care. Hard Cases: The Unworried Unwell 2014-03-17T17:01:04Z

"It's an abiding fear of becoming enervated by a poor work ethos where welfare becomes a crutch." How do Singapore's poor families get by? 2014-02-27T21:52:47Z

Something that is enervating orthodox Catholicism and energizing those who have hated the Church to see in her an ally. Pope's trickle-down economics takedown 2013-11-29T15:39:59Z

Andy Murray said he tried a gluten-free diet but gave up, feeling enervated. Straight Sets: In Book and Magazine Profile, Views Into Djokovic’s World 2013-08-30T16:28:13Z

The long wait at the peak had enervated her. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z

But once these finals are over, get ready for a 2013-14 N.B.A. story line that will be dominating, fascinating and ultimately enervating. On Pro Basketball: Some Hints of a Bigger Drama Awaiting Heat 2013-06-04T03:25:06Z

The lack of affordable and decent housing, inadequate access to health care, enervated neighborhood schools, stagnant local economies and few economic opportunities are all substantial community-based stressors that present hard obstacles to success. Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter) 2013-05-20T20:11:45Z

More of the fundamental run and pass structure and excitement of basic football would be preserved while the enervating consequence of ho-hum field goals are greatly reduced. The Fifth Down: An Idea to Adjust the Distance Between Posts for Field Goals 2013-01-02T12:59:13Z

His thrust: it could help enervate Mexico’s violent drug cartels. World Hails U.S. Pot Legalization 2012-11-08T07:05:00Z

That is why Shanahan’s remarks grabbed so much attention, particularly because he still possesses one of football’s most enervating talents in quarterback Robert Griffin III. N.F.L. Fast Forward: Coach Mike Shanahan Sends a Message the Redskins Don’t Want to Hear 2012-11-05T19:50:07Z

But surely this was a novel that was pretty enervating to read in 1970. City Room: Big City Book Club - Discussing 'Desperate Characters' With Paula Fox 2012-10-10T22:03:36Z

The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. Morality First: The End of Behaviorism 2012-10-03T21:39:51Z

While sub-prime has morphed into a naughty word, a near clone has stealthily infiltrated the mortgage markets, choking the breath out of many unfortunates ensnared by its enervating tentacles. Meet The New Subprime: It Will Cost Us Billions 2012-09-30T14:36:37Z

IT IS a dreary, enervating routine—one with which Rushdie is oppressively familiar. Islamists’ Final Stand 2012-09-17T05:00:00Z

Martin’s average has been under .200 since June 22 — an embarrassing, enervating span of 64 days. Slump for Russell Martin Can’t Get in the Way 2012-08-25T02:05:55Z

In parts of New York, the sound of gunfire assumes the tenor of background noise, enervating communities and drastically reordering the rhythms of ordinary life. Big City: For Many New Yorkers, Gunfire Is Part of the Soundtrack of Their Lives 2012-07-28T14:40:54Z

Even when he was enduring those enervating defeats by Djokovic last year, he was never that far from his best; they were all in finals, after all. French Open: History boys go into battle with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver 2012-05-26T21:00:02Z

Food is fuel, the right kind can energize the wrong kind enervates. The Mathematician's Obesity Fallacy 2012-05-16T18:15:43.583Z

The colt had nothing left to offer, however, after his long campaign and enervating Preakness victory. The Rail: 1962 Preakness: the Stretch Duel in Which 'All Heck Broke Loose' 2012-05-16T14:24:31Z

Political talent and ambition, having no sphere for action, steadily decay, and servile, enervating, and vicious habits proportionately increase. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z

The experience was memorable, certainly better than warm milk, but Martin finished invigorated rather than enervated. Perchance to bleam 2012-04-25T17:21:07.597Z

During these pleasant if enervating months of May and June she watched him closely. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z

The mid-day sun had been hot as we crossed it and I seemed to notice some enervating influence which had not affected me elsewhere. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z

The Rajah, long enervated by excess and opium, probably cared little about the matter; there were, indeed, but a few moments in each day when he could be fairly pronounced awake. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z

The fact is, that the people are mentally enervated and apathetic. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z

The intermediate space from them to our own times has left only the traces of a weak and enervated school. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

And for the veteran players, this stretch has to feel as enervating as a week of rainouts. Mariners could have used another week of spring training 2012-03-30T05:21:41Z

It was as if all the harmonies of water's various movements swelled into one indescribable wave of translucent melody, that penetrated soul and body with its enervating power. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z

This people was militant, aggressive and unsettled in the earlier part of that time; commercial, wealthy and enervated in the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

Political subjection to an effete despotism, and addiction to opium, had enervated the national mind, and rendered the Chinese helpless as a race. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z

It was extremely exhausting and enervating, this prowling about under the perpetual strain of danger. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z

Without analyzing the soft but not enervating influence that surrounded them, the two keepers with their families were alive to its effects. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z

They were visited by missionaries, but were never brought into the enervating subjection to them that ruined the Yahgan. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z

Their frame is neither shaken nor enervated by the use of intoxicating liquor; they eat when hungry, and sleep when nature demands it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z

The feverish life of cities too, with its enervating pleasures, is forgotten and neglected for the witchery of legitimate sport, which need not be slaughter or cruelty. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z

Small wonder that some of them, upon being arrested, hailed their prison cell as a welcome place of rest, as a relief from the enervating strain of liberty under the harrowing conditions of underground life. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z

It was characteristic that Ormsgill did not state that it was also one of the reasons he had traveled for four days and most of four nights under an enervating heat. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z

Industry, ingenuity and taste, will lend embellishment to the simplest home, and the young, at least, can well afford to dispense with enervating luxury and pretentious display. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

As in the case of the Throne, so in that of the provincial polities; it was the Tudor sovereigns who narrowed and enervated the privileges of their subjects. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z

The foul exhalations of the autumn called up fever and ague, crippling and enervating, and tempting, almost compelling, to that wild and desperate drinking which was the Scandinavian's special sin. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z

Below, it is close, weakening, enervating; above, it is exhilarating, invigorating, and strong. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z

The main street, with its whitened doorsteps and gleaming knockers, lay languid in the sunshine; perhaps, enervated by the dissipation of the previous evening. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z

Or could the higher attributes of his nature have been developed, indeed, in conjunction with a body 'cabined, cribbed and confined' by the enervating influence of youthful self-indulgence? The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

At present there is little chance of the majority of its people being enervated by luxury or demoralized by wealth. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z

His troops, which had signalised and enervated themselves by their licentious brutalities on a defenceless population, broke and fled—as Abercrombie foretold they would do—before the enemy. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z

She saw him make a little sign of concurrence, and once more was sensible of an enervating dismay when he flung his answer at the shrinking member of the Legislature. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z

The mean annual temperature is 83� F. and the climate is enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z

The problem of decline, however, is solved by the enervating influence of possession and power, an influence which only a select few among men can escape. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z

Almost devoid of religion, they fought with all the madness of fanaticism131 against a people themselves constitutionally fanatic, but already enervated by climate, by sudden wealth, and a long experience of contaminating luxury. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z

But to his iron heart love found a way, and enervated the mind of the man whom nothing before could soften. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z

The hands and feet in particular appear soft, enervated, and delicate, without distinction of sex or character. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z

Lucretius is more alive to the dangers of pampering the body and enervating the mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z

The paper dropped from my enervate hand, while I raised my eyes, and beheld, Oh! my God! under the disguise of a young officer, my beloved, my faithful, long-lost Maria! The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z

His mind had been somewhat enervated and the spontaneity of his nerves somewhat impaired by thirty years of intensive drinking. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z

Those men are giants from the first to the last hour of action, unless, as happened to Napoleon, success enervates them. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z

It is said that the timbre was extremely enervating, and, together with the vibration caused by the friction on the finger-tips, exercised a highly deleterious effect on the nervous system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z

Pulteney had, perhaps, become enervated with a long period of merely negative opposition. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z

The haughtiness with which these worthless sons of imperious but debauched and enervated 293 sires, affected to look down upon the solitary and unfriended alien, produced an impression upon his mind which was never effaced. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z

It becomes enervated and discouraged, incapable of initiating any new and fashionable epidemics. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z

And something in the enervating atmosphere, and the dream-like charm, again had that dangerously soothing effect upon Lawrence. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z

Without the harmless slap fights, that first half was as enervating as an Ambien smoothie. Fox needs to decide whether to show the whole story or not in NFL games 2011-12-05T05:53:01Z

He wished the country gentry encouraged to raise a militia, for he was anxious to call the country out of that enervated condition that the menace of twenty thousand men from France could shake it. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z

At Coerney there was the same wait under the trees before the cart was ready to start; the same languid stillness brooded over the place, the same enervating heat. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z

He also stood for waste—the waste of powers which had left him stunted mentally and morally enervated. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z

I shouted, leaning recklessly down; and the first shock of enervating consternation vanished when I gripped the reins. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z

Moreover the burning atmosphere peculiar to Rome, impregnated with exhalations from the Pontine marshes, oppresses and enervates mind as well as body and cripples the energy of the will. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z

These findings would seem to suggest that most of us are doomed to be tubby, an enervating idea — and one that may even be self-fulfilling. Well Blog: Phys Ed: Fighting the Fat Gene 2011-11-23T05:01:43Z

The Goths, though enervated, had not wholly lost their prowess, and they strove desperately with the fierce host of Tarik. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z

She wished for nothing of all that; it only tired, enervated her. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z

Spanish civilisation enervated the Berbers, but did not refine them. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z

They are terrific athletes, though at the weigh-ins, two days before a bout, some look more enervated than buff. Ultimate Fighting Championship Comes of Age Financially 2011-11-11T16:55:50Z

On the other hand, when, from over-indulgence, Sex or any other stimulant ceases to release new inspiration and forces, it is sign of a permanently enervated state. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z

I must brace my mind, not enervate it, for I know I shall have much to endure. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z

His father revered the sterner virtues, and sacrificed to them whatever he apprehended might tend to enervate his son's character. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z

That last month in New York had been a horribly enervating one, both meteorologically and domestically speaking. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z

There is nothing, it seems to me, that makes people feel so ill or is so enervating as the sympathy of friends and the verdict of a doctor. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z

And to be always under influence of a stimulant is enervating. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z

The breeze set up by the motion of the boat through the still air was delightfully cooling after the enervating atmosphere on board the West Barbican alongside the wharf. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z

The enervating atmospheres of hot climes incline the mind and body to repose, and often pervert the notions of natural justice. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z

Addiction to pleasure--that undoubtedly often grows in vigorous soil; but a man may appear vigorous enough and still be excessively enervated. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z

Here is the whole program of confusing, enervating, and trivializing the mind of the world. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z

And emphatically this is true of the male, since woman exercises a hypnotic, and, accordingly, an enervating influence upon him. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z

Indeed, all the men's faces for the first few days in Puerto Rico showed plainly the enervating influence of the climate, to which they could not easily get accustomed. Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 2011-10-16T02:00:16.233Z

The army had been thinned by desertion and was enervated by long indiscipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z

As a necessary consequence the vicious practice has not only enervated their minds but made their "wealth small and their want great." The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z

Luxury is recognizedly one of the most enervating influences. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z

The establishment of this inequality in the distribution of the blood will derange the harmonious condition of the cerebral organs; some will be overcharged, and either inflamed or constipated, and others impoverished or enervated. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z

In winter a dense fog often shrouds the countryside and a deadly chill pervades the atmosphere, while the humidity of summer, when the sun draws the moisture from the soaking earth, is very enervating. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z

On the 7th of October the heat increased to such a degree, and became so very oppressive, that many complained of its enervating effects. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z

The law not only interfered with the bill of expenses, but with the bill of fare; and, under the Consulship of M. Scaurus, the dormouse was excluded from the dinner-table as an enervating luxury. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z

As Mr. Frederic Harrison truly says, a want of faith in "the essential dignity of man is one of the surest marks of the enervating influence of this dream of a celestial glory." The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z

Let not confidence beget an apathy that may close the eye of vigilance, or enervate the powers of resistance. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z

She adorned his mind without enervating it, and modified what seemed extraordinary and singular in the turn of his ideas. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z

Not for the children of a civilization, enervated and weakened. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z

There was something enervating and soporific in the steamy atmosphere. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z

Contents 'Pessimism as to the essential dignity of man is one of the surest marks of the enervating influence of this dream of a celestial glory.' The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z

"This is what gave us the battle," Alexander said, pointing to the enervating array. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z

But that flashing made her feel weary, enervated, almost breathless in the room, which she found close.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z

His head felt like lead, every bone in his body ached, and he had that horrible sense of internal malaise, than which few feelings are more discouraging, distressing and enervating. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z

It deprives a criminal of his force, of his energy, enervates his soul by weakening and frightening it, and at last exhibits a dried up mummy as a model of repentance and amendment. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z

There was something subtly enervating about its silent and stealthy advance, something that inspired him with a feeling he had never experienced when standing face to face with a foe of flesh and blood. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z

The enervating climate certainly did not agree with her. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z

To stand in courts, a favored and flattered one? to revel in the soft luxuries and enervating pleasures of a princely life? Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z

Exhausted by long struggles, enervated by a brilliant civilization, the Moslem peoples inevitably fell into a malaise, but they are not stricken, they are not dead! The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z

In wars with the Commonwealth the nations of the Sultan, more enervated in general, could not measure strength with cavalry in equal numbers, and only through an immense numerical preponderance did they crush and conquer. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z

Mrs Chadwick, looking after them as they passed through the glass doors and stepped into the moist and enervating atmosphere of the fernery, which led out from the long drawing-room, looked anxious. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z

In 1675 one Tryer drank punch in India and, like the poor thing that he was, basely libelled it as an enervating liquor. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z

These, enervated by their conquest of Gaul, were rolled in the dust and driven out, and then the Frankish conquerors, in turn, took possession of our poor country. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z

He spoke of his own weakness with the bitter yet facile contempt which too often enervates still more instead of strengthening. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z

In thus presenting a united front to the last in adversity, the kernel of the Taira family, though much enervated by their court life, proved themselves true sons of the chivalrous warriors of old Japan. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z

An exaggerated sensibility often smothers the voice of justice, enervates us, and deprives us of the robust courage we need in life. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z

The nights are bright and clear and warm; you may sit here on the turf till midnight and find no dew, and still feel the languid, enervating influence of the hot blast. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

It weakens—enervates it—so that its neighbors easily drive it out and take its place. Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia 2011-08-03T02:00:12.183Z

Everybody, globally and domestically, just feels enervated by the whole process. Analysis: Debt debate diminishes almost everyone 2011-08-02T20:18:47Z

But the mighty flood rolled back from the walls of Rome, and carried with it the arts and sciences, and the enervating luxuries of the south. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z

As the physical strength of men develops, so will the means of combating infirmities, diseases, all that weakened, enervated, depraved the populations, develop also. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z

It is surprising how little 257 man really wants here below; the luxuries of the present day are disgusting, enervating, unnecessary. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z

It's the most dreadful, reductive, depressing, one-dimensional, enervating thing to sell to teenagers. TV highlights 27/07/2011: Olympics 2012: One Year to Go 2011-07-26T18:59:01Z

It was a fine evening, and to one fresh from the enervating heat of Africa, there was a wonderful buoyancy in the cool air that came down from the cordillera. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z

The immediate result of this futile and fatiguing expenditure of energy is likely to be discouraging and even enervating. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z

Hamsun has essayed in "Wanderers" and "The Last Joy" to show the enervating influence of the years. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z

The summer that year was particularly hot and enervating. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z

The faint perfume of flower and leaf made the soft, moist air odorous and sweet, and there was a delicious coolness that seemed to give strength to her enervated frame. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z

When the soft, enervating air of Corinth's luxuriousness steals over you like the mild air of Lotus-Land, 'Stand fast in the faith'! The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z

The atmosphere was of the stuffy, moist, enervating character inseparable from low-lying riverside resorts. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z

On the one side, at the colourlessness, the shabbiness, the squalid monotony of virtue; on the other, at the enervating and degrading effects of vice. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z

Between times I continued to give numerous lessons in Paris, which I found equally oppressive and enervating. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z

But, though enervated by long years of luxury, and so greatly demoralised by defeats, the Britons had yet some force left. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z

This is doubtless due to the location of the islands, their isolation from centres of civilization and culture, the enervating climate, lack of entertainment and desirable companionship, and distance from the homeland. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z

The broad plains were free from the enervating influence of the Tropics, on the one hand, or the stern and rugged landscape features which nurse the restless Norseman, on the other. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z

The evening promised to be very beautiful; something serene, calm, and melancholy, had succeeded to the enervating heat of the day. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z

But, with Summerlad away, nothing much happened with enervating regularity, the most interesting hours Lucinda knew were those spent in her rooms waiting for Lynn to call up on the long distance telephone. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z

My enervated system did not feel able to hold up against this new affliction, and so I threw myself down among the ropes and boxes in the hold. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z

She is happy only when palpitating with desire or enervated by exhaustion: the transition terrifies her like a torture. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z

I have no doubt of success in a course of years if I persevere—but it must be patience—for the Reviews have enervated and made indolent 341 men’s minds—few think for themselves. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

Another thing that tends to enervate the Russians and keep them in their brutified condition, is the immoderate use of brandy, to which both men and women are addicted. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z

An enervating atmosphere of apathy pervaded the place, as if nothing of much moment to anybody present was either happening or expected to happen. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z

His unstrung nerves kept on quivering in an enervating slumber. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z

So quickly had a week of ease and luxury, of woman's society, and idle trifling enervated me! Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z

Poetry has no practical use; it rather enervates men than urges them to the call of duty; and above all, there are more profitable occupations in which the righteous man may be engaged. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z

This great heat enervates both mind and body, and sufficiently accounts for the extreme sloth of the inhabitants. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z

And, as seems the way of all indulgence taken in secret and without restraint, this of mine enervated me, made me less fit for the society of my fellow-beings. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z

By separating duty from interest which ruins it, and from sentiment which enervates it, Kant restored to ethics their true character. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

It is these—the weak, the plastic, the impressible—whom your earth-born morality is corrupting, whose possibilities of happiness and self-respect your enervating woman’s-sphere-ism is destroying. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z

To be with them was to breathe an atmosphere of cheerful, living peace, far removed from the fatal and enervating calmness which makes a pain of repose. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z

A happy awakening, although it went too far in establishing royal absolutism; and a victory too complete, in that it enervated all the forces of resistance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z

To his followers, bin Laden predicted that the U.S. would overreact to the attacks and allow itself to be drawn into an endless, enervating conflict with the Muslim world. What Osama bin Laden Misunderstood About the U.S. 2011-05-09T09:10:00Z

Sloth benumbs and enervates the mind; regular work excites and strengthens it, and work is always in our power. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

I will not sleep under this roof; 'tis enervating! The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z

See, without knowing it, you are enervating the defence. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

The ch�teaux of the Loire, where he led a restless and enervating existence, held an atmosphere little favourable to enthusiasm and energy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z

The summer season is extremely enervating, and in many parts of the island actually dangerous, on account of the excessive heat and the incessant torrents of rain, which together create an unhealthy steaming miasma. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z

No stoic has been as austere as stoicism, no epicurean as enervated as epicureanism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

Buoyant and bracing as an elixir of life is the cool air on these mountain-sides, when the hot breath of July is enervating the dwellers in the valley below. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z

Each new enterprise betrayed Trochu's plan, enervated the troops, but had no effect on the courage of the National Guards engaged. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

He had learned the art from them, and London had scarce had time as yet to enervate him. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z

From the physical point of view, the Cubans are inferior to their Spanish forefathers, a fact which may be attributed, perhaps, to the effect of an enervating climate on successive generations. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z

Ease and luxury were enervating, were depraving me. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z

They had banished from all their estates a senseless custom which had enervated and depopulated the southern countries. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z

All these parleys had profoundly enervated the defence. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

The air becomes more and more sultry, an enervating damp odor rises from the ground, in the tree-tops rustle wonderful melodies. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z

The climate, especially from November to April, is somewhat enervating to the Englishman, but not unhealthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z

I will wink at that; sell 'em as much Tea as you please, to enervate the Rascals, since they will not take it of me; but for God's sake don't supply them with any Arms! Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

"You certainly all live in a more enervating atmosphere," David admitted. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

Science is not the characteristic trait of this period; for that is to be found in the arts or in the pleasant enervating lassitude of life. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z

Their wearing clothes will be an excellent thing for our manufactories, but will help to enervate the savage. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z

His mind appeared less enervated than his limbs, and he bowed with an air of great courtesy to the new-comers, evincing no surprise at the appearance of strangers. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z

We want no waifs and strays of civilization, enervated with excesses, or depressed with failure; men who can find no niche for themselves, who have neither the habit, the disposition, nor the education for work. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z

He was already struggling against that enervating sense of insignificance which his client's presence inevitably imposed upon him. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

It was as though the enervating atmosphere of my uncle's nearness had taken from me the power of volition. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z

How magnificent, how wonderfully coloured, how fantastic and exquisitely enervating was this supreme intensity of heart joy! Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z

At the end everyone has his part——You the consoling consciousness of having nothing——you an enervating doubt of everything.—Farewell. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z

The enervating character and unhealthfulness of the climate of the region explored proved most disastrous to the members of the expedition. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z

The bringing in more French Words to soften and enervate our Stile is of very ill Consequence. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z

They were beginning to feel the enervating effect of the climate, and of the lack of water and proper food. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z

They were a young, superb couple, but their children, who had never known the cold, were slender products of an enervating land. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z

Palms and roses, the heavy warm air of the conservatory, sensuous, soothing, enervating.... Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z

The staff is enervated and needs to reconnect with normal life, a state sorely lacking in the restaurant racket. You're the Boss: Gone Fishing! 2011-01-18T12:00:18Z

The Midsummer days are often intensely hot in the interior, but the nights are cool, and the atmosphere is so dry that the heat is not enervating. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z

She had not entirely lost consciousness, but cold and fatigue had combined to enervate and render her powerless of motion. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z

There were a few thousand inhabitants of mixed race, and the tropical climate, though moist and enervating, is fairly salubrious. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z

It enervated him to contemplate the object of his attachment; however, he shook off this feeling. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

A certain effeminacy, and even the endemic practice of odious vices, appears to have early enervated it. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z

And he was getting enervated in the midst of all his relations. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z

He often, but in vain, attempted to go: a soft languor enervated the powers of his mind. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z

Cheerfulness and sobriety are the rule; gambling and an idleness excused by the enervating influences of the too generous sun are the predominating vices, as elsewhere in Southern Spain. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z

The carriage rolled on, and the honeysuckles and the syringas trailed over the garden fences, sending forth puffs of enervating odour into the night air. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

If I could go back again into my early self—I wish I could—but the artificial life so perverts and enervates one, I hardly know, honestly, what I wish. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z

Surely just about every Tea Partier agrees with Ginsberg on the enervating effect of the liberal media: “Are you going to let our emotional life,” he once wrote, “be run by Time magazine?” Essay: The Beat Generation and the Tea Party 2010-10-09T07:30:00Z

Between the enervating summer heat and the E.R.A.-inflating ballpark, Texas became a team of last resort for free-agent pitchers. Nolan Ryan?s New Pitch 2010-10-01T20:19:00Z

In the years following unification, Germany was often described as "the sick man of Europe," in part because of the enervating cost of uniting two separate disparate economies. The 20-Year Miracle 2010-09-30T20:00:00Z

The contemplation of this woman had an enervating effect upon him, like the use of a perfume that is too strong. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z

More accurately, it is 61 percent empty after an enervating 11-year drought. Las Vegas?s Worried Water Czar 2010-09-28T16:11:00Z

As I explored the city over the last few days, quirks like these gradually loomed more endearing than enervating, and there were many of them. Letter from China: Old Charms Thrive in the New Shanghai 2010-06-28T15:30:00Z

Either way it seems likely to be another afternoon of enervating tension for all concerned. Charlton 1-0 Leeds 2010-05-01T20:26:00Z

In summer the heat is damp and enervating, and, as Trebizond is approached, the vegetation becomes almost subtropical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens"

It had its martyrs, too, as well as its suicides; its sense of life as well as its enervating fear of death. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker

The natural enjoyment of life, the susceptibility to beauty in art and nature, the love of simplicity, were no longer possible to minds enervated and hearts deadened by the unrelieved monotony of luxurious living. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

It was all over with hypocrisy, lying, and evasion, nervous anxiety, and enervating desire. The Undying Past

Disease may relax the body and enervate the whole frame; but thou art the disease of the soul, the fever of the brain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4

Hard labour under the tropical sun and in the hot damp of the isthmus seemed to have no exhausting or enervating influence whatever upon him. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise

It is true the Roman world to the eyes of Seneca lay in the shadow of death, crushed under a treacherous despotism, and enervated by gross indulgence. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Frequent indulgence in them has an enervating effect, though the majority of people need as yet no renewal of Hadrian's prohibitive legislation in this matter. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis

Leo felt signs already of the enervating stupefaction which always took possession of his brain in this atmosphere. The Undying Past

It must be a sound constitution which can successfully withstand its enervating influence. The Story of Malta

He longed to throw open all the windows, to escape from the atmosphere, in which for the first time he seemed to find some faint, enervating poison. The Hillman

In Dion’s judgment as to the enervating effects of slavery on the slave-owning class, and the absence of any moral or mental distinction to justify the institution, he is in singular harmony with Seneca. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

The good sense of the youth had strengthened and increased under the enervating system which would have destroyed a weaker brain and a less honest heart. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846

In each instance the results are equally enervating, bringing most brides, whether rich or poor, to the one great event in their lives in an exhausted and nervous condition. What a Young Husband Ought to Know

Whether this is an advantage to the intellect of man calculated to increase its strength and volume—or like luxurious diet, enervate and weaken, is a problem worthy the solution of every reader. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution

But now away with this enervating dream of happiness! The Wish A Novel

And the system of household slavery enervated character while it made it heartless and cruel. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

We are growing too serious, the railways and telegraph have upset us and enervated us, we are getting languid and dull. Friend Mac Donald

The Latin text, which I would wish to transcribe from the learned Grotius, is rather long, and it would be enervated by translation. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion

Golden days! when will ye return in the majesty of your innocence and banish from our land the enervating follies, the poisonous weeds, the impugning evils that augur the destruction of our far famed Republic. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution

I soon felt the life of Paris feverish, enervating. Glories of Spain

At the worst, these vices infected only a comparatively small class, idle, luxurious, enervated by the slave system, depraved by the example of a vicious court. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Places declining from the poles have attractive forces, but a little weaker and languid in the ratio of their distance; so that at length on the �quinoctial circle they are utterly enervated and evanescent. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments

Fear, trembling, and dread pervaded and enervated all hearts: their minds had always been full of superstition, now everything was sought for, with impulsive credulity, which could be significant of the attacks of supernatural powers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.

Familiarity with scenes of blood and carnage—the rage of battle and the clash of arms did not enervate the exalted powers of his refined sympathies and softer passions. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution

Even Valencia, so much farther south, appeared less enervating. Glories of Spain

That's another danger, which mamma is always so afraid of: oh, how enervating it is; it eats up all your energy!... Majesty A Novel

The woman’s rights movement is made difficult in South Africa by the following circumstances: An enervating climate “that makes people languidly content with things as they are.” The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey

Climate and Population.—The climate of North Borneo is tropical, hot, damp and enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John"

Independence, Confederation and foreign alliance are as formidable to some members of Congress—I fear a majority, as an apparition to a weak enervated woman. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution

Balder," said he, "I am returning to truth and nature, after having incurred the danger of being enervated by luxury. The Children of the World

The variety of soft influences continually about him had a subtle, enervating effect. The Master's Violin

"You have an attack of veritable 'Whitmania,' arising from a too long indulgence in the intoxicating yet enervating flow of Swinburnian superlatives?" Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887

What advantage is it to a people to be clothed in costly stuffs when they are enervated, demoralized, and perishing? The Progressionists, and Angela.

But, at the same time, whatever enervating element there might have been in the air of our grottoes has been thereby victoriously combated. Underground Man

The dew was gone, and though Kitty remained a primitive Eve, he himself knew that in his conscious ardour there hovered the vague presence of something no longer pure, something unwholesome and enervating. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece

This done, the reaction set in—aided, perhaps, by the enervating lassitude of the hot baths and the sleepy atmosphere of that forgotten village. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus

Notwithstanding all we hear and know of the enervating influence of the climate, the white man, if not laborious himself, is the cause that labor is in others. To Cuba and Back

A wearied, enervated nature, nerves blunted by the enjoyment of all kinds of pleasures, are frequently all that remains of womanly nature. The Progressionists, and Angela.

It was Philo, therefore, who was largely responsible for contaminating the pure clear air of Greek thought with the enervating fogs of oriental mysticism. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

The Chinese Custom's officer at Yatung tells me that the summer months, though not hot, are relaxing and enervating. The Unveiling of Lhasa

He avoided all enervating self-indulgence, and his powers of endurance surpassed those of any other member of the court. On the Heights A Novel

But on this evening it was particularly enervating. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident

The increased products beget luxury and the desire for enjoyment; the ultimate consequences of which enervate the individual and society. The Progressionists, and Angela.

The idea of writing poetry all day and every day appeals to me as enervating and ostentatious. Plashers Mead A Novel

Mere human sympathy only enervates, and in the end the soul is left weaker than before. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation

The eyrie had become "tiresome," the fragrance of the orange flowers "enervating;" as for pine barrens, she never wished to see a pine barren again. East Angels

Slavery and the enervating climate have left their mark on the habits of the people, whose indolence and fatalism are perhaps their most obvious qualities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades"

From without came the hum of insects, a hum so insistent, so enervating, and yet so Wagnerian in intensity that you would have said a nation of them celebrating a feast of love. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes

She had an enervating way of asking unnecessary questions, and of laughing as though it hurt her. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel

To remove me alike from the enervating influence of a mother's vanity, and the extravagant profusion and voluptuous abandonment of London habits, this was his object. Jack Hinton The Guardsman

But the air was perfectly still, and so sweet that it was enervating. East Angels

To the great extremes of overpowering cold and enervating heat some of the apparent incongruities of the native character may doubtless be attributed. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia

But the lessons and conversation of Polydore Riches, and the cold cynicism of Mr. Trevethlan, furnished a partial antidote to its enervating tendency. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story.

June was not altogether disagreeable, but in July the city was visited by a heat at once insistent and enervating. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel

Since his death a succession of remarkable victories had made the flag of Portugal predominant, but the enervating climate, the pleasures and the plunder of Asia, began to tell on the conquerors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens"

The soldier lay back on the cushions sipping his coffee, his eyes half shut, a pleasant feeling of indolence enervating his frame, as he gazed. The Ruined Cities of Zululand

On the contrary we feel that they are too forbearing, and look to the enervating influence of their clime as an excuse for their supineness under such gross wrongs. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time

At sunrise they were out of sight from the land, but so enervated by sea-sickness that some would willingly have gone back. The West Indies and the Spanish Main

The hubbub was enervating, and in the air was a stench of liquor with which the sea-breeze coped in vain. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel

He can nobly spread the feast, yet is he not enervated by luxury. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards

It is the glory of country life that it is by no means enervated or over-civilized. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity

The room was pleasantly warm, and the smell of disinfectants, of medicines, and of lavender water hung in the air—the air of a sick room, oppressive and enervating. The Heart of a Woman

From this day the Prince was exposed in his camp to an influence whose interest it was to slacken his march and enervate his resolutions; and from this day everything tended to a retreat. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14

A long interval of tranquillity had enervated the planters of Virginia: luxury had introduced effeminate manners and dissolute habits. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

The chief people surrendered themselves to all the enervating effects p. 184of pleasure and luxury. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards

In a score of ways the creature comforts of a luxury loving age are surely enervating those who yield to them. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity

A couple of hours’ stroll, and our two young friends began to feel a little of the enervating influence of the hot moist climate. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley

So, too, over the far expanse of warrior Zululand—peaceful enough now to outward aspect in all conscience—the slumbrous yet far from enervating heat of mid-afternoon still brooded. A Frontier Mystery

But the sheer restfulness of them had become a trifle enervating. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion

Where classical literature prevails the manly spirit which it breathes must be diffused; whenever frivolousness predominates, when refinement degenerates into whatever enervates the mind, literary ignorance is sure to complete the effeminate character. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

To remain inactive, merely enjoying the luxury of a most hospitable entertainment, was not only accomplishing nothing, but was also enervating the army. Hernando Cortez Makers of History

It debilitates and enervates them, and they are not near so strong and healthy as formerly. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe

It debilitates and enervates them, nor are they near so strong and healthy as formerly. Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

The air of this cloister has at length enervated your steadfast mind. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3

Those arts only, the abuse of which have a certain and fatal tendency to enervate the mind, the arts of music and cookery, were passionately cultivated in all the refinement of effeminate abuse. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

For the country they cared nothing, except as it provided them with luxurious retreats where they might, for a short space, renew their enervated faculties after the dissipations of the city. Roman Women

It is enervate, I suppose; but so it is. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions

For some years I have recalled the long enervated Romans to arms, and have unceasingly practised them in the use of their weapons. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)

This enervated his poetry, said Gray, and he says the same thing of the same method by whomsoever adopted, for nothing is done so well as at the first concoction. Methods of Authors

This effect is produced, without bombast or enervating sentimentality; simply because a story founded upon fact is narrated with becoming dignity, modesty and consummate Literary Art. The History and Records of the Elephant Club

Having a dinner supplied to them, they 197 give up hunting, riding, and all their native sports, and become enervated. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things

The Venetian feudal families pursued a mild but somewhat enervating policy towards the natives, who began to merge their nationality in that of the Latins and adopted for the island the new name of Corfu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"

Not only the Jesuits and Jesuitism were struck by the blow, but, in general, all that portion of Christendom, which was enervated by an easy indulgence. Priests, Women, and Families

Men of the English race are often grandly strong in resistance to every form of voluptuousness; the race is fond of comfort and convenience, but it does not sacrifice its energy to enervating self-indulgence. The Intellectual Life

They fill the lives of women not a few with mentally hurtful and morally enervating excitement. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home

Besides, the Italians are like the Chinese,——unchanged and unchangeable,—and they detest the advent of all strangers who would interfere with their own little, soft, sleepy, and enervating code of wickedness. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life

Like Hannibal's soldiers on the fertile plains of Lombardy, they had become enervated in the luxury of their beautiful valley. Cathedrals of Spain

The studies, with which they prepare for it in the seminaries, are such as entirely ruin the disposition, weaken the body, and enervate and defile the soul. Priests, Women, and Families

And now—almost on the threshold of security and firm land—again the enervating restrictions and routine, the sinister preparations, the atmosphere of sudden danger. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war

Remember that I lived In a different world, in an artificial and enervating atmosphere where nothing is real but Rank, nothing sweet but Station, nothing precious but Money. The Song of the Wolf

At the best they could but corrupt and enervate the Church. The London Pulpit

She had been enervated by the gossip of the lunch-table; a child startled by the possible horrors of a dark closet was never more absurd than she. Eden An Episode

Whoever considers the following powers vested in the government, and compares them with the above, must readily perceive they are either all enervated or annihilated. Essays on the Constitution of the United States

Learning does not necessarily enervate the active powers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847

Married at eighteen to Anselm Brevoort, a millionaire thirty years her senior, she had lived the life of luxury and dissipation inseparable from her social station, and was therefore naturally blas� and a bit enervated. The Song of the Wolf

She was a wonderful girl, this Suzanne, full of grit and ability, although raised under what might have been deemed enervating circumstances. The "Genius"

单词	enervate
例句	enervate And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Avoid it unless the meaning is clear. enervating. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z McCoy feared that the rarefied air in the Enterprise was enervating the crew. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You may attempt to defend your enervating use of the passive voice by pointing out that the only alternative is excessive reliance upon the first person personal pronoun or upon the pontifical We. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the contrary: if something’s enervating, it drains you of energy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and I am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if I were able to afford it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat wave in Austria, he traveled from Brno to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.” Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z This hyperventilated quality initially serves the story and Chazelle’s concept of the era’s delirious excess, but the lack of modulation rapidly becomes enervating. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The enervating, would-be laugh-in “The Comedian” opens this week, presumably on the strength of its headliner, Robert De Niro. Review: Robert De Niro as ‘The Comedian,’ a Has-Been Seeking a Comeback 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability. Lizz Wright’s ‘Grace,’ an Ode to the South and to Forgiveness 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z There is a seriousness to Ruben and Carlos’s relationship that becomes enervating. ‘Luz’ Review: Love In and Out of Lockup 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Of course they’d have been enervated by the universal franchise, but they would have found it horrifying that people have the vote and don’t vote. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Heartfelt but enervated, “Song One” noodles around the Brooklyn music scene without stirring up magic. Anne Hathaway Falls for a Crooner in ‘Song One’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z When the storm finally breaks, an enervated calm falls over the stage, slowing down the dance to a bleak stillness. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z Unlike, say, the Abba songbook, there isn’t much sonic variety or weirdness to distinguish one peppy dance number from the next, and too much Go-Go’s can blend into one enervating beat. “Head Over Heels,” Reviewed: A Trans-Positive Spin on a Sixteenth-Century Romance, with Help from the Go-Go’s 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z There are times, particularly during the enervating summer season, when it can seem as if Hollywood has forgotten how to put on a really big — and great — show. \| 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z As matters moral are endlessly chewed over in Greek tragedy, so Hero’s decision is examined from all sides, with slightly enervating results. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The inventive — and enervating — quality of McGregor’s novel derives not only from its refusal to bend to conventional thriller expectations, but also from its form. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z I was very conscious of the fact that readers were no less spent; no less pinched for time or enervated by illness and uncertainty as my own family. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z But his dissolving into babble was probably the lowest point for me of a generally highly enervating episode. ‘The Night Manager’ Episode 4: Searching Looks and Alleged Drum Beats of Tension 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, it’s a confused and frequently enervating effort. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The compact, razor-sharp McKenna Birmingham performs a frenzied solo that shows Mr. Feld’s proclivity for interlocking movement; yet instead of creating a meditative whole, the repetitive phrases become enervating. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z In the wrong hands, this could get enervating—too much too muchness, like the Transformers films. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z The format was clunky and enervating, too, killing off the few funny lines. Happy Tuesdays 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z Nevertheless, the bloated “Certified Lover Boy,” released last year, was his least focused album, and also his least imaginative — he sounded enervated, fatigued with his own ideas. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z She is defending herself against an enervating kind of relationship, and she really does sound exhausted. A debut well worth the wait from political D.C. punks Priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “So enervated that it’s like a vampire movie after the vampires have left,” the critic Pauline Kael wrote at the time in The New Yorker. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z At other times, “Careless Crime” feels rather enervating, the film’s political charge and the pathos of its characters diffused by Mokri’s mathematical zeal. ‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And yet it is this same spirit of irrelevance that animates — or, more accurately, enervates — Mr. Meltzer’s television venture. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z Among the takeaways from the play is how enervating it can be to have to plead constantly for access and understanding. ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z He suffered a major heart attack that brought on congestive heart failure, enervating him and curtailing his income from writing. William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The actors are energized, but the camera enervates. Review: Strong Performances Anchor ‘The Tribes of Palos Verdes’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa’s prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The discussions can be enervating, enlightening or infuriating, depending on who is on which side of the food fight. How breaking news got panelized: On cable, journalists and pundits increasingly share space. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z This time, the exercise is a different proposition, and thankfully nowhere near as enervating. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Expelled from the confines of her bedroom and the enervating control of her parents, she emerges as a classic Hannah heroine girded for the harrowing adventures ahead. Review \| ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z So welcome to the most lopsided and enervating Venice Biennale in recent memory, which came together amid a global pandemic and now opens under the sign of a European land war. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z We prefer wines that are nimble and energetic, that refresh the palate rather than enervate. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But in retrospect, I was fortunate to be too enervated to read much social media or to take in any reviews. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Visually barren and somewhat enervated, the movie nevertheless has a powerful sense of implacable fate — Lang’s not least. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z They yearn to be free from the violent, enervating menace of white racism, and to flourish in the elusive American promised land. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It has a very enervating effect on our society and our economy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z And so Friday’s early set was casual, stylized, spare, genial, dreamy and, except for about four minutes near the end, almost enervated, frustratingly low-impact. Music Review: Bill Frisell and Friends Play Venerable Country Tunes 2014-01-19T22:08:32Z And this “Hothouse,” like “Mission Drift,” reminds us of the theatrical energy to be minded from enervated empires. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z We dutifully attend enervating screeds like today’s double feature in the Competition. Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus 2012-05-18T15:27:07Z By the humid, enervating end of August, the Hamptons social circuit can feel like the world’s longest dance party for rich white people. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It must be time for another enervating parade of go-getters and their bad personalities to bore on about their passion for business to Lord Sugar and co. TV highlights – 07/05/2013 2013-05-07T06:00:01Z But for all its kicking and shooting, the movie suggests the action equivalent of enervated 1970s European soft-core: all diffuse, sun-drenched exteriors populated by attractive stars on an exotic working vacation. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But over all the tone was strident and enervating. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z In “Illusive,” a string octet, Mr. Moon evoked a difficult adjustment to New York with a wayward litany of pops, shivers and shrieks, by turns agitated and enervated. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z A nurse in a pediatric hospital, Laura veers between the emotional highs and enervating lows of emergency medicine, subsisting on caffeine and a hard-wired sense of duty. Review \| Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Within its furious action, it delivers surprisingly simplistic gratifications that are no less enervating for the positive feelings that they generate. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z Comedy is, after all, divisive; performers will often play to a room in which some individuals are enthralled and others enervated. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the gaffer of gaffer? 2012-08-16T10:35:41Z This enervating film runs only 81 minutes, but it feels endless as Greer and the actors flail trying to get the comic timing to spark. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Restrained and intense, Mr. Rose’s performance was as powerful and troubling a representation of the enervating effects of the closet — effects demonstrated by the resolute aloofness of Britten’s opera — as Heath Ledger’s in “Brokeback Mountain.” Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z “We the People” is, alas, an enervating spectacle. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z Yet the strength of “Sahkanaga,” its respect for its material and its characters, is also its weakness: a reverent pace that can be as enervating as a muggy day. Movie Review: John Henry Summerour’s ‘Sahkanaga’ 2012-12-07T02:14:58Z But the effort to be everything to everyone is enervating, and no doubt exhausting. Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Clichéd, enervating, insulting — it’s tough to settle on a single pejorative for “Rock the Kasbah,” though abysmal might do. Review: In ‘Rock the Kasbah,’ Who Cares About War When There’s Money to Be Made? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z That single event prefaced the disintegration of our solid faith in government, fathering the now pervasive and enervating assumption that we no longer have control over our economic of political destiny. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Though she was energized during a face-to-face interview, a phone conversation last week found her more enervated, reflecting a hard new turn in her story. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z These bits and the plentiful excerpts from “Julius Caesar” feel, even if you know both plays, like an enervating amount of Shakespeare out of context. Review: In ‘The Brutes,’ the Actor Who Would Be an Assassin 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z I find it both energizing and enervating, and best engaged with in chunks so I can experience it and not become numbed by its force. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla. I made you birthday tacos, 873 miles away 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z They are not starving but are condemned to an enervating whittling away of their physical resources. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z Other painters’ work seemed enervated next to his. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And he acknowledged being worn, enervated and world-weary. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z And for any theatergoer who participates in this movable junk-food buffet, “KPOP” is likely to come across as entertaining and enervating, in fairly equal measures. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon, and enervating, e.g., Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z They grow their own vegetables, refusing to eat the enervating state-supplied food. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z But far from being enervating, this helps to carry Johnson’s narrative along, allowing it to flow like a river. Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Raf Simons seemed enervated by this collection, which included belted jackets, quite a number of boyish shorts, and T-shirts in solid colors as well as grid patterns and deep-hued, splashy prints. Jil Sander: Detox 2010-06-18T14:46:00Z For director Ridley Scott, it started a run of enervating historical action-dramas that included Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood and Exodus: Gods and Kings, none of which had the same propulsive kick. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z It's enervating, sunbaked and, for all that, rather thrilling. Wooden Shjips: West - review 2011-08-11T20:45:01Z The close-knit clan is aloof and enervated in the face of ever tightening racial laws that will spell their demise. A Writer’s “Tomb of Words,” and the People Who Took It Personally 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z In truth, the enervating hash of dystopian dread, vague religiosity and commercial advertising-style uplift is nothing if not stale. ‘The Giver’ Adapts Lois Lowry’s Novel 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But now their sound was an enervating jangle, a burglar-alarm claxon. Music Review: Phil Kline’s ‘dreamcitynine’ at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012-08-05T21:31:18Z But Massie expertly captures the privations of surrender: cheap cigars, undrinkable coffee and the enervating sense of being suspended in limbo. Dark Summer in Bordeaux by Allan Massie – review 2012-08-07T11:05:00Z In high season, pushing through the crowds clogging the temple’s graceful walkways had become an enervating and dispiriting ordeal that few locals would willingly undergo. Kyoto Wants You Back, but It Has Some Polite Suggestions 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The omnipresence of vibraphones, strings and high winds became tinnily enervating over two hours, and I longed for the throaty bass clarinet that grounds Reich’s classic “Music for 18 Musicians.” Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “You are shaken and insecure, and simultaneously enervated.” For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z That was my conclusion after spending the last two weeks of July taking in the offerings of both theaters: nine evenings of Wagner in 12 days, by turns exhilarating and enervating. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But one theme he kept returning to, during the screed and in responses to journalists’ questions, was that of the disempowered black man, revived and ready to vanquish the enervating effects of women’s influence. Kanye West’s White House Monologue Flirted with the Language of the Men’s-Rights Movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It wasn't much interested in the world beyond the exhibitionist milieu of London's clubland in the early 1980s, which was both its enervating weakness and animating strength. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z In truth, as Toll implies, the MacArthur-Nimitz competition was never as enervating to the war effort against Japan as the American-British competition was in Europe. How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.” Review \| ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Here the ennui sometimes seeps into the narrative in a way that leaves stretches of the movie enervated and galumphing like a corpse. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z More enervating is the plot’s allergy to any sustained tension. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy. New band of the day ? No 799: Ghostpoet 2010-06-02T14:50:00Z Happily, this enervating mood of wintry discontent gives way to sprightly spring almost instantly after the intermission. \| 'As You Like It': Love?s Hard, Comic Work, on a Stage Most Worldly 2011-07-08T23:04:48Z But there was something oddly enervating about the programme. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z For the onetime Rangers managing partner, it was an enervating finale to a championship that eluded him when he was signing the checks. A First Title for the Rangers, and a Thrill for the Former First Fan 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized. Game 7 loss can’t take away from Kraken team that ‘changed the landscape of hockey in Seattle’ 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy. Review: William Kentridge's sprawling Broad installation is an extraordinary meditation on apartheid 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.” Advice \| Ask Amy: After 16 years, I’m done constantly giving my husband back rubs 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z And now, after an excruciating, maddening, interminable, at times enervating wait, that’s exactly where the Mariners are. As if these Mariners could clinch a playoff berth with anything other than dramatics 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In humans most serotonin is synthesized in neurons that enervate smooth muscle cells lining the gastrointestinal tract. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Spinal nerves extend outward from the vertebral column to enervate the periphery. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The war in Ukraine, with its vicious swings in momentum, might be moving from ebullient optimism about Ukraine’s defiance toward a phase that’s closer to the long, enervating grind of the Korean War. Opinion \| Biden hunkers down for a long, limited war in Ukraine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z An absurdist fantasia that skewers the idea of work as innately meaningful, “Tin Cat Shoes” layers digression upon digression, a knot of shaggy dog stories that’s amusing and enervating in about equal measure. Washington Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tin Cat Shoes’ takes an appealingly odd look at meaning of work 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand. China tries to cover lockdown strains on Shanghai’s front-line workers 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z “It will unsettle our national foundation,” he said, “enervating our national character and values.” How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in South Korea 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The lumbar plexus arises from all the lumbar spinal nerves and gives rise to nerves enervating the pelvic region and the anterior leg. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z For progressive celebrators, “the risk of stifling, enervating, or devitalizing human society is not even part of their calculation.” Opinion \| Witness how progressives in government forfeit the public’s trust 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But they can still struggle to get a full picture of which providers can connect a future residence — and see not just download speeds but upload speeds, which can make video-chatting easy or enervating. Does the home you want to buy have good high-speed Internet? You may have to do some sleuthing to find out. 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Family crises that some might view as a call to action mostly just enervate her: She doesn’t need another reminder that middle age can be overwhelmingly hard and ponderously boring. Review \| Bridget Everett’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ is 2022’s first great show 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Fluoride was being used to enervate Americans in advance of the coming communist occupation, he said. Op-Ed: Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z When U.S. troops were poised on the border of Iraq in 2003, U.S. officials didn’t consider the grinding, enervating war of counterinsurgency that lay ahead. Opinion \| The Biden administration weighs backing Ukraine insurgents if Russia invades 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z There’s the crux of Mohamed’s artistry: Her clear-eyed acknowledgment of this man’s self-pity runs parallel to her piercing exposure of his society’s relentless, enervating prejudice. Review \| In ‘The Fortune Men,’ a corrupt legal system frames an innocent man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The freedoms of speech and assembly place at their center a vocal and enervated citizenry. Opinion \| Furious parents at school board meetings have a right to speak. We should listen to them. 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Just as Trump did all he could to enervate and deconstruct the federal government over which he presided, Thomas-Kennedy appears anxious to transform the city attorney into a public defender. Law & (Dis)Order: Seattle 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Only then can they find a way to enjoy the process, as enervating as it might be. Why Does Playing Tennis Make So Many Pros Miserable? 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z The massive gloom, the enervating buzzkill of Tuesday, seemed to have lifted every so slightly by game time Wednesday, before the Mariners ended the homestand that was supposed to determine the fate of their season. In his pursuit of club control, did Jerry Dipoto lose control of the Mariners by trading Kendall Graveman? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z What if a daily pursuit of a “masterpiece” is more enervating than it is energizing? ‘Good after good’ approach takes UW Huskies volleyball team from bad to great — and to Final Four 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z A great point, too, from David Hamlyn on the surprisingly enervating issue of quick free kicks’ being discouraged. Jesse Lingard and Tricks of the Light 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and other DC Comics superstars mash it up — again — in this enervating four-hour director’s cut, releasing on HBO Max. Critics can’t agree whether ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ is the worst or a knockout 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Clocking in at a jaw-dropping, enervating four hours, this maximalist undertaking is a bid for redemption in an industry that rarely bestows second chances. Review: 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' has arrived. It's been a long wait — and so is the movie. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “I thought I knew what ‘enervating’ meant, but I looked it up anyway,” confesses Charles Antaki. Leicester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z The intractable, enervating war there is now part of Biden’s portfolio of misery. Opinion \| Afghanistan is Biden’s first big foreign policy headache 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Far worse than the extended screen time were the moments she didn’t share, when she was too frustrated, in too much pain or too enervated to post anything at all. Opinion \| My Daughter, TikTok Warrior 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Never mind that Orchid is still enervated after her own bout of influenza. Apocalypse playlist 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z But despite the talent involved, and the incredible subject matter, the irritating tendency to overexplain means there’s very little spark to be found in the enervating “Radioactive.” Review: ‘Radioactive's' flashes of innovation are not enough to illuminate Marie Curie 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Its newly enervated purpose was to “supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies” and to provide a “short-term stopgap buffer”. Exclusive: US has three months to rebuild medical supplies stockpile, Obama administration scientists warn 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Increasing political polarization has facilitated presidential power grabs by enervating congressional oversight, increasing the political loyalty of Cabinet officers, and eroding the norms and unwritten rules of the presidency. Perspective \| Trump has handled the coronavirus the way he handles everything: Like a toddler 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate. Britain’s Brexit Shrug: Just ‘Get On With It’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z In promulgating this bleak and enervating perspective, Monsieur Camus was inarguably on to something. Opinion \| The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z It made for an eerie, echoey weirdly enervated atmosphere as the teams kicked off. Six minutes of added time for racism will live long in sporting infamy \| Barney Ronay 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In his resignation letter, Mr. McAleenan attributed his exit to “personal and family reasons” and described his tenure as “galvanizing and enervating.” Kevin McAleenan Resigns as Acting Homeland Security Secretary 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But they share a quality of constant distraction, a permanent, enervating uncertainty about what they will get up to next. Just How Crazy Is Boris Johnson? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Game 2 was almost as extreme but not quite as enervating. London’s MLB crowd offers baseball a new land of opportunity \| Matthew Engel 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z And yet, if anything, they seemed energized, not enervated, by their head-to-head battle with Woods. Tiger Woods Shook Up Golf at the Masters. It Might Be Just the Beginning. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement. Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Gates emphasizes that Reconstruction was destroyed not by white terrorism alone but also by a fiendishly complicated series of ever more enervating legal and practical assaults. How the South Won the Civil War 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Because the cornea is enervated, the prions, which prey on proteins found in neurons, may be reaching the surface via these tiny neural conduits. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The form of the story seems no less enervating: like a long piece of reporting, with headlines, 17 of them — “Who was Burke? His Beginnings”; “Who is Blindman?” ‘If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z It certainly seemed that way at his West Virginia rally, where he appeared distracted and enervated. President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z They’re emotional, enervated wrecks, husks of their formerly composed selves, and all they want to do is just finish the recording and move on with their lives. Valve is still making Half-Life 3 jokes 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Chef Anthony Bourdain, whose visceral prose enervated his roving culinary programs, was mourned by fellow chefs, writers and fans Friday. Anthony Bourdain's death stuns celebrity colleagues and admirers 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Bearing the enervated ambience in mind, I asked Day whether there was a particular day, at an average event, when maintaining the necessary levels of concentration posed the greatest challenge. Jason Day is saving a star-challenged leaderboard at Quail Hollow - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z My initial fear was that "Avengers: Infinity War" would be a hopeless, planet-hopping traffic jam of a movie, a black hole of enervating cinematic chaos. 'Avengers: Infinity War': a rousing Marvel mash-up, or a truly epic tease? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Pars at 17 and 18 were pedestrian but pressure-free, a welcome respite from the enervating events of previous holes. An opening-round 73 at the Masters might have been the perfect start to Tiger Woods' major return (yes, we're serious). - Golf Digest 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It was, as always, a long flight, stimulating in its scenic views, enervating in its length. 90th Academy Awards show speaks up yet keeps the smiles coming 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, there was something apropos, something viscerally congruent, with determining the winner of golf’s toughest tournament with a long and enervating playoff. The U.S. Open's 18-hole playoff dies a not-so-sudden—but much appreciated—death - Golf Digest 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Boredom is exhausting, enervating and debilitating for a driven professional. The career vs. future-potential-baby dilemma \| Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The solo show is one of Broadway’s best-established genres, but it’s also enervatingly unvaried. ‘John Lithgow: Stories by Heart’ Review: Jumping Off the Page 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Brazil and Colombia, recovering from enervating corruption scandals and a guerrilla insurgency respectively, planned restorative elections in 2018. Trump, Putin and Xi: a year of tough-guy leaders and foolish brinkmanship 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Ironically, the depression left me so enervated that I couldn't rouse myself to do any planning. Waiting for Depression to Lift 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z “I take full responsibility for the funny jokes and for the stuff everyone hated. It was so enervating,” he said. A failed sitcom could end your career. For John Mulaney, it was just the beginning. 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z At Swansea they struggled without Aaron Mooy in the first half, the midfielder dropping to the bench after an enervating week with Australia. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Especially as one of the most enervating weeks of his career approaches. The consummate wingman, Steve Stricker is ready to take the lead role at the 2017 Presidents Cup - Golf Digest 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z She also reiterated that her decision to use a private email server as secretary of State, which led to a politically enervating FBI probe, was “a dumb mistake.” Hillary Clinton, rehashing her loss in new book, emerges to less-than-enthusiastic reviews 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Liberals complain about being enervated, unable to concentrate. Nothing about the Trump presidency is normal. Keep remembering that \| Francine Prose 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z An evening with so many scheduled high points, so many moments of focused energy, can have a cumulative enervating effect. Song-and-dance man Kevin Spacey displays fancy footwork during a sweet, corny and touching Tony Awards 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Modern America, with its enervating comforts — including cosseting parents — and present-minded education that produces cultural amnesia, must deliberately make its citizens. Opinion \| The way to restore American self-reliance: Make kids work harder 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z An enervated marriage and a strained father-daughter relationship are observed from three perspectives. ‘The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories’: A lively return to short fiction 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But, as the activism increased, the classroom discussions occasionally seemed enervated, the participants vaguely distracted. An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Individual mileage will vary as to whether viewers find their accrued effect to be enlightening, enervating or simply infuriating. Review \| ‘Song to Song’: Beautiful searchers seek meaning in Austin’s music scene 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Many philosophers, academics and artists were already sick of the mundane, transactional, enervating nature of democracy under leaders like Giovanni Giolitti, prime minister several times in the two decades preceding fascism. Trump and Mussolini: The same, only different? Eleven key lessons from historical fascism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The usage is accepted and no different from “enervate.” Opinion \| Nothing sexist about ‘emasculate’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z To add to the enervating claustrophobia, Trump further packed the lobby with staffers who proceeded to cheer raucously at all the right moments in the manner of canned laughter in a recorded TV show. Attempts to hold Trump to account only seem to make him stronger and stranger 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Decadent and enervated, the West lies vulnerable in the face of a confident and convicted Islamofascism, which is the cosmic threat of our time. Bannon’s battle for hearts and minds 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “You need ‘The 25th Hour’,” he told an enervated university student, referring to a novel by Mr. Benioff. ‘Book Doctors’ Say What You Need Is a Good Read 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z When the Dust Bowl smothered Oklahoma, the Joads were not enervated, they moved west in search of work. Trump’s Carrier deal is the opposite of conservatism 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z In a time of exhausting demands on our attention — not least the enervating drama of the postelection news cycle — “Primitive Technology” acts as a quiet corrective, an escape from a surfeit of vanity and strife. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Primitive Technology’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z These and other incidents in a long and enervating season have prompted Bradshaw to step up efforts to deal with tanking. Men’s Tennis Wants to Crack Down on Tanking. But What, Exactly, Is Tanking? 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z In the end, helping ordinary North Koreans to end their isolation would do more than anything to undermine the regime’s myths and enervate its sinews. Evil genius 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z We're watching the grand narrative of reform growing dull and diffuse, its moral authority enervated. How Education Reform Lost Its Mojo 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated. Trump’s shallowness runs deep 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s enervating and requires focus — all hands must be on deck. TRAVEL: Charleston, West Virginia, offers adventures, culture and cuisine 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z An entire chapter of the memoir is devoted to a petty fight between his financially enervated parents over the cost of a Thai dinner and convenience-store dessert. Can an Addiction Memoir Help Us Understand Wall Street? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z In this sense, at least, to be a Republican in the Age of Trump is exhilarating, if also enervating. Never-Trump Confidential 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z That annoyance is augmented by the delay when swiping to and from the camera viewfinder, rendering me both aggravated and enervated. Moto G4 Plus review: no 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Those families largely fund India’s political parties through vast unreported cash contributions, making any changes to the country’s endemic and enervating protectionism difficult to undertake. India’s Leader Ready to Bolster Ties With U.S., Thanks Partly to Donald Trump 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z First, the good news: We are very nearly to the end of this exhausting, enervating primary season. Dear God, let this primary season end: What to expect from Tuesday’s (already thoroughly bizarre) Indiana contests 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z "Effects are so overused that any conviction explodes in a giant fireball - indeed endless fireballs. The result is an enervating two and a half hours." Mixed reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Seven years later, when Strong was appointed a professor, Harvard hailed his efforts at “overcoming conditions which made life in the tropics almost impossible for white men and dangerous and enervating even to natives.” By retiring a seal, Harvard wages war on the dead — but to what end? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The teenager was crisp and brief while facing the excited media after his enervating innings. Pranav Dhanawade: The Indian boy who scored a record 1,009 runs - BBC News 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Chelsea’s players have looked enervated, disgruntled, even openly insubordinate ever since, tottering their way to nine Premier League defeats in 16 games, culminating in a thrillingly hapless 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Monday night. Adeus, José – a fittingly operatic departure for the game's first celebrity manager 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z With an evening of enervating boredom staring us in the face, we might as well root for some out-of-left-field questions: Expose Marco Rubio’s tax scam: Fox Business’ moderators want to show they’re serious. Here’s how they can 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z “It was so dear,” says Richards, but the encounter only enervated her. Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards: 'In this election, Roe v Wade is on the ballot' 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Formerly settled questions are being upended; our politics lacks a shared narrative; our entertainment infantilizes us; our media leaves us enervated. Pope Francis After America 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z In fact, Dickinson’s inaugural American tour with Iron Maiden for 1982’s Number of the Beast album was so enervating the band’s tour manager fell asleep standing up, sleepwalked off the stage and broke his wrist. Bruce Dickinson: ‘Hell would freeze over before I'd stop performing’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Somehow Spieth has avoided becoming drained or enervated or suffering a letdown from the effects of all that winning – something even British Open champion Zach Johnson couldn’t avoid, shooting 75 on Friday. Another major, another major run by the utterly unflappable Jordan Spieth 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Spieth, 21, is a technician and brilliant putter who plays position golf, but is struggling to keep his edge at the end of an enervating season that included victories at the Masters and U.S. Star-crossed? Sure, but Dustin Johnson is back in lead at the PGA 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z For moviegoers who don't want intrusive safety protocols, more security could make visiting a movie theater an enervating process. Lafayette shooting renews debate on movie theater security 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Cavaliers fans seemed enervated too, filtering quietly out of Quicken Loans Arena with several minutes left while Golden State fans repeated their melodic, almost haunting, "War-riors, War-riors" chant. NBA Finals: Stitched-up LeBron James needs to pull Cavaliers together 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In Munich he seemed energised not enervated by the prospect of getting to work on a team who are clearly in need of a little transitional working-over. Time for Pep Guardiola to impose his stamp on an ageing Bayern Munich side \| Barney Ronay 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z These rising young leaders, Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee, were totally dedicated to elevating their enervated countries to incredible new heights of power and riches. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, Korea's Park Chung-Hee, Two Tough Leaders With Much In Common 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Patients coping with enervating symptoms and fears may find it impossible to search through hundreds of trials involving their disease. Living With Cancer: Clinical Trials Looking for Patients 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This behavior is practiced to disconcert, divide, enervate and deliberately frustrate underlings and those who don't belong to the "tribe" or network in power. Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Why Women Stay Quiet at Work 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z This kind of carefully crafted rhetoric started, after forty years of independence, the project of culturally distinguishing the United States from its enervated former colonizers. How the Battle of New Orleans Birthed the American Character 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The word “Lebensbescheinigung” reminds me that I am the one who, given enervating cancer treatments, sometimes needs to prove to myself that I am alive. Living With Cancer: Playing the C Card 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In my experience, I suggest, Frieze provides exactly the enervating experience of a Saturday afternoon at Brent Cross shopping mall, except some of the stuff on sale is priced in the millions. Eric Fischl: ‘What America wants is artists who are doing very expensive toys’ 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z That balance is lacking in Gruden, whose down-by-down approach keeps him too fixated on formations — an approach that might excite his coach’s heart but can be enervating to viewers after repeated exposure to it. As an Analyst, Jon Gruden Needs a Lot of Coaching 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Republican George W. Bush defeated Clinton's vice president and preferred successor, fellow Democrat Al Gore, in no small part due to an enervating electoral affliction known as Clinton fatigue. How Bill Clinton, improbably, became America's favorite politician 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “Well, you see, here's the thing. Immortality is lovely, of course, but it can be so ... enervating.” Investments : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Before Iyengar found yoga, he said many times, he was a sickly boy, enervated by tropical diseases. Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z For all that, there are many shots of skinheads lounging around, doing nothing, bored and enervated. Skinheads: a photogenic, extremist corner of British youth culture 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z If energizing is a goal, then enervating is a yellow flag. 4 Ways To Kill Vampires And Energize Your Growth 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z To buy this scenario would require you to believe that People is implicated in a grand conspiracy to keep Clinton’s enervated physical state from American voters. Why Clinton will run Other strongmen who supervised the bloody purges of economically enervated and unproductive people were also ruthless majoritarians, consecrated by big election victories. The new face of India 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z To put it plainly, the U.S. isn’t a magnet for – even in its present enervated state – massive amounts of foreign capital because half of the population looks forward to a life of government support. Mitt Romney, The 'Say Anything' Pol Of The Republican Party 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z This particular routine enervates doctor and patient alike: The future probable is a pretty dull tense, summoning none of the adrenaline that attends acute fix-it-up care. Hard Cases: The Unworried Unwell 2014-03-17T17:01:04Z "It's an abiding fear of becoming enervated by a poor work ethos where welfare becomes a crutch." How do Singapore's poor families get by? 2014-02-27T21:52:47Z Something that is enervating orthodox Catholicism and energizing those who have hated the Church to see in her an ally. Pope's trickle-down economics takedown 2013-11-29T15:39:59Z Andy Murray said he tried a gluten-free diet but gave up, feeling enervated. Straight Sets: In Book and Magazine Profile, Views Into Djokovic’s World 2013-08-30T16:28:13Z The long wait at the peak had enervated her. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z But once these finals are over, get ready for a 2013-14 N.B.A. story line that will be dominating, fascinating and ultimately enervating. On Pro Basketball: Some Hints of a Bigger Drama Awaiting Heat 2013-06-04T03:25:06Z The lack of affordable and decent housing, inadequate access to health care, enervated neighborhood schools, stagnant local economies and few economic opportunities are all substantial community-based stressors that present hard obstacles to success. Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter) 2013-05-20T20:11:45Z More of the fundamental run and pass structure and excitement of basic football would be preserved while the enervating consequence of ho-hum field goals are greatly reduced. The Fifth Down: An Idea to Adjust the Distance Between Posts for Field Goals 2013-01-02T12:59:13Z His thrust: it could help enervate Mexico’s violent drug cartels. World Hails U.S. Pot Legalization 2012-11-08T07:05:00Z That is why Shanahan’s remarks grabbed so much attention, particularly because he still possesses one of football’s most enervating talents in quarterback Robert Griffin III. N.F.L. Fast Forward: Coach Mike Shanahan Sends a Message the Redskins Don’t Want to Hear 2012-11-05T19:50:07Z But surely this was a novel that was pretty enervating to read in 1970. City Room: Big City Book Club - Discussing 'Desperate Characters' With Paula Fox 2012-10-10T22:03:36Z The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. Morality First: The End of Behaviorism 2012-10-03T21:39:51Z While sub-prime has morphed into a naughty word, a near clone has stealthily infiltrated the mortgage markets, choking the breath out of many unfortunates ensnared by its enervating tentacles. Meet The New Subprime: It Will Cost Us Billions 2012-09-30T14:36:37Z IT IS a dreary, enervating routine—one with which Rushdie is oppressively familiar. Islamists’ Final Stand 2012-09-17T05:00:00Z Martin’s average has been under .200 since June 22 — an embarrassing, enervating span of 64 days. Slump for Russell Martin Can’t Get in the Way 2012-08-25T02:05:55Z In parts of New York, the sound of gunfire assumes the tenor of background noise, enervating communities and drastically reordering the rhythms of ordinary life. Big City: For Many New Yorkers, Gunfire Is Part of the Soundtrack of Their Lives 2012-07-28T14:40:54Z Even when he was enduring those enervating defeats by Djokovic last year, he was never that far from his best; they were all in finals, after all. French Open: History boys go into battle with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver 2012-05-26T21:00:02Z Food is fuel, the right kind can energize the wrong kind enervates. The Mathematician's Obesity Fallacy 2012-05-16T18:15:43.583Z The colt had nothing left to offer, however, after his long campaign and enervating Preakness victory. The Rail: 1962 Preakness: the Stretch Duel in Which 'All Heck Broke Loose' 2012-05-16T14:24:31Z Political talent and ambition, having no sphere for action, steadily decay, and servile, enervating, and vicious habits proportionately increase. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The experience was memorable, certainly better than warm milk, but Martin finished invigorated rather than enervated. Perchance to bleam 2012-04-25T17:21:07.597Z During these pleasant if enervating months of May and June she watched him closely. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The mid-day sun had been hot as we crossed it and I seemed to notice some enervating influence which had not affected me elsewhere. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The Rajah, long enervated by excess and opium, probably cared little about the matter; there were, indeed, but a few moments in each day when he could be fairly pronounced awake. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The fact is, that the people are mentally enervated and apathetic. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The intermediate space from them to our own times has left only the traces of a weak and enervated school. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z And for the veteran players, this stretch has to feel as enervating as a week of rainouts. Mariners could have used another week of spring training 2012-03-30T05:21:41Z It was as if all the harmonies of water's various movements swelled into one indescribable wave of translucent melody, that penetrated soul and body with its enervating power. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z This people was militant, aggressive and unsettled in the earlier part of that time; commercial, wealthy and enervated in the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Political subjection to an effete despotism, and addiction to opium, had enervated the national mind, and rendered the Chinese helpless as a race. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z It was extremely exhausting and enervating, this prowling about under the perpetual strain of danger. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Without analyzing the soft but not enervating influence that surrounded them, the two keepers with their families were alive to its effects. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z They were visited by missionaries, but were never brought into the enervating subjection to them that ruined the Yahgan. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Their frame is neither shaken nor enervated by the use of intoxicating liquor; they eat when hungry, and sleep when nature demands it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The feverish life of cities too, with its enervating pleasures, is forgotten and neglected for the witchery of legitimate sport, which need not be slaughter or cruelty. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Small wonder that some of them, upon being arrested, hailed their prison cell as a welcome place of rest, as a relief from the enervating strain of liberty under the harrowing conditions of underground life. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z It was characteristic that Ormsgill did not state that it was also one of the reasons he had traveled for four days and most of four nights under an enervating heat. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Industry, ingenuity and taste, will lend embellishment to the simplest home, and the young, at least, can well afford to dispense with enervating luxury and pretentious display. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z As in the case of the Throne, so in that of the provincial polities; it was the Tudor sovereigns who narrowed and enervated the privileges of their subjects. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The foul exhalations of the autumn called up fever and ague, crippling and enervating, and tempting, almost compelling, to that wild and desperate drinking which was the Scandinavian's special sin. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Below, it is close, weakening, enervating; above, it is exhilarating, invigorating, and strong. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The main street, with its whitened doorsteps and gleaming knockers, lay languid in the sunshine; perhaps, enervated by the dissipation of the previous evening. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Or could the higher attributes of his nature have been developed, indeed, in conjunction with a body 'cabined, cribbed and confined' by the enervating influence of youthful self-indulgence? The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z At present there is little chance of the majority of its people being enervated by luxury or demoralized by wealth. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z His troops, which had signalised and enervated themselves by their licentious brutalities on a defenceless population, broke and fled—as Abercrombie foretold they would do—before the enemy. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z She saw him make a little sign of concurrence, and once more was sensible of an enervating dismay when he flung his answer at the shrinking member of the Legislature. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The mean annual temperature is 83� F. and the climate is enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The problem of decline, however, is solved by the enervating influence of possession and power, an influence which only a select few among men can escape. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Almost devoid of religion, they fought with all the madness of fanaticism131 against a people themselves constitutionally fanatic, but already enervated by climate, by sudden wealth, and a long experience of contaminating luxury. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z But to his iron heart love found a way, and enervated the mind of the man whom nothing before could soften. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The hands and feet in particular appear soft, enervated, and delicate, without distinction of sex or character. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Lucretius is more alive to the dangers of pampering the body and enervating the mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z The paper dropped from my enervate hand, while I raised my eyes, and beheld, Oh! my God! under the disguise of a young officer, my beloved, my faithful, long-lost Maria! The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z His mind had been somewhat enervated and the spontaneity of his nerves somewhat impaired by thirty years of intensive drinking. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Those men are giants from the first to the last hour of action, unless, as happened to Napoleon, success enervates them. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z It is said that the timbre was extremely enervating, and, together with the vibration caused by the friction on the finger-tips, exercised a highly deleterious effect on the nervous system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Pulteney had, perhaps, become enervated with a long period of merely negative opposition. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The haughtiness with which these worthless sons of imperious but debauched and enervated 293 sires, affected to look down upon the solitary and unfriended alien, produced an impression upon his mind which was never effaced. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It becomes enervated and discouraged, incapable of initiating any new and fashionable epidemics. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z And something in the enervating atmosphere, and the dream-like charm, again had that dangerously soothing effect upon Lawrence. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Without the harmless slap fights, that first half was as enervating as an Ambien smoothie. Fox needs to decide whether to show the whole story or not in NFL games 2011-12-05T05:53:01Z He wished the country gentry encouraged to raise a militia, for he was anxious to call the country out of that enervated condition that the menace of twenty thousand men from France could shake it. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z At Coerney there was the same wait under the trees before the cart was ready to start; the same languid stillness brooded over the place, the same enervating heat. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z He also stood for waste—the waste of powers which had left him stunted mentally and morally enervated. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z I shouted, leaning recklessly down; and the first shock of enervating consternation vanished when I gripped the reins. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Moreover the burning atmosphere peculiar to Rome, impregnated with exhalations from the Pontine marshes, oppresses and enervates mind as well as body and cripples the energy of the will. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z These findings would seem to suggest that most of us are doomed to be tubby, an enervating idea — and one that may even be self-fulfilling. Well Blog: Phys Ed: Fighting the Fat Gene 2011-11-23T05:01:43Z The Goths, though enervated, had not wholly lost their prowess, and they strove desperately with the fierce host of Tarik. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z She wished for nothing of all that; it only tired, enervated her. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Spanish civilisation enervated the Berbers, but did not refine them. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z They are terrific athletes, though at the weigh-ins, two days before a bout, some look more enervated than buff. Ultimate Fighting Championship Comes of Age Financially 2011-11-11T16:55:50Z On the other hand, when, from over-indulgence, Sex or any other stimulant ceases to release new inspiration and forces, it is sign of a permanently enervated state. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z I must brace my mind, not enervate it, for I know I shall have much to endure. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z His father revered the sterner virtues, and sacrificed to them whatever he apprehended might tend to enervate his son's character. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z That last month in New York had been a horribly enervating one, both meteorologically and domestically speaking. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z There is nothing, it seems to me, that makes people feel so ill or is so enervating as the sympathy of friends and the verdict of a doctor. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z And to be always under influence of a stimulant is enervating. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The breeze set up by the motion of the boat through the still air was delightfully cooling after the enervating atmosphere on board the West Barbican alongside the wharf. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The enervating atmospheres of hot climes incline the mind and body to repose, and often pervert the notions of natural justice. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Addiction to pleasure--that undoubtedly often grows in vigorous soil; but a man may appear vigorous enough and still be excessively enervated. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z Here is the whole program of confusing, enervating, and trivializing the mind of the world. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z And emphatically this is true of the male, since woman exercises a hypnotic, and, accordingly, an enervating influence upon him. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Indeed, all the men's faces for the first few days in Puerto Rico showed plainly the enervating influence of the climate, to which they could not easily get accustomed. Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 2011-10-16T02:00:16.233Z The army had been thinned by desertion and was enervated by long indiscipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z As a necessary consequence the vicious practice has not only enervated their minds but made their "wealth small and their want great." The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Luxury is recognizedly one of the most enervating influences. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z The establishment of this inequality in the distribution of the blood will derange the harmonious condition of the cerebral organs; some will be overcharged, and either inflamed or constipated, and others impoverished or enervated. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z In winter a dense fog often shrouds the countryside and a deadly chill pervades the atmosphere, while the humidity of summer, when the sun draws the moisture from the soaking earth, is very enervating. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z On the 7th of October the heat increased to such a degree, and became so very oppressive, that many complained of its enervating effects. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The law not only interfered with the bill of expenses, but with the bill of fare; and, under the Consulship of M. Scaurus, the dormouse was excluded from the dinner-table as an enervating luxury. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z As Mr. Frederic Harrison truly says, a want of faith in "the essential dignity of man is one of the surest marks of the enervating influence of this dream of a celestial glory." The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z Let not confidence beget an apathy that may close the eye of vigilance, or enervate the powers of resistance. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z She adorned his mind without enervating it, and modified what seemed extraordinary and singular in the turn of his ideas. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Not for the children of a civilization, enervated and weakened. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z There was something enervating and soporific in the steamy atmosphere. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Contents 'Pessimism as to the essential dignity of man is one of the surest marks of the enervating influence of this dream of a celestial glory.' The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z "This is what gave us the battle," Alexander said, pointing to the enervating array. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z But that flashing made her feel weary, enervated, almost breathless in the room, which she found close.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z His head felt like lead, every bone in his body ached, and he had that horrible sense of internal malaise, than which few feelings are more discouraging, distressing and enervating. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z It deprives a criminal of his force, of his energy, enervates his soul by weakening and frightening it, and at last exhibits a dried up mummy as a model of repentance and amendment. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z There was something subtly enervating about its silent and stealthy advance, something that inspired him with a feeling he had never experienced when standing face to face with a foe of flesh and blood. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The enervating climate certainly did not agree with her. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z To stand in courts, a favored and flattered one? to revel in the soft luxuries and enervating pleasures of a princely life? Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Exhausted by long struggles, enervated by a brilliant civilization, the Moslem peoples inevitably fell into a malaise, but they are not stricken, they are not dead! The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z In wars with the Commonwealth the nations of the Sultan, more enervated in general, could not measure strength with cavalry in equal numbers, and only through an immense numerical preponderance did they crush and conquer. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Mrs Chadwick, looking after them as they passed through the glass doors and stepped into the moist and enervating atmosphere of the fernery, which led out from the long drawing-room, looked anxious. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z In 1675 one Tryer drank punch in India and, like the poor thing that he was, basely libelled it as an enervating liquor. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z These, enervated by their conquest of Gaul, were rolled in the dust and driven out, and then the Frankish conquerors, in turn, took possession of our poor country. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z He spoke of his own weakness with the bitter yet facile contempt which too often enervates still more instead of strengthening. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z In thus presenting a united front to the last in adversity, the kernel of the Taira family, though much enervated by their court life, proved themselves true sons of the chivalrous warriors of old Japan. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z An exaggerated sensibility often smothers the voice of justice, enervates us, and deprives us of the robust courage we need in life. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z The nights are bright and clear and warm; you may sit here on the turf till midnight and find no dew, and still feel the languid, enervating influence of the hot blast. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It weakens—enervates it—so that its neighbors easily drive it out and take its place. Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia 2011-08-03T02:00:12.183Z Everybody, globally and domestically, just feels enervated by the whole process. Analysis: Debt debate diminishes almost everyone 2011-08-02T20:18:47Z But the mighty flood rolled back from the walls of Rome, and carried with it the arts and sciences, and the enervating luxuries of the south. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z As the physical strength of men develops, so will the means of combating infirmities, diseases, all that weakened, enervated, depraved the populations, develop also. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z It is surprising how little 257 man really wants here below; the luxuries of the present day are disgusting, enervating, unnecessary. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z It's the most dreadful, reductive, depressing, one-dimensional, enervating thing to sell to teenagers. TV highlights 27/07/2011: Olympics 2012: One Year to Go 2011-07-26T18:59:01Z It was a fine evening, and to one fresh from the enervating heat of Africa, there was a wonderful buoyancy in the cool air that came down from the cordillera. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The immediate result of this futile and fatiguing expenditure of energy is likely to be discouraging and even enervating. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Hamsun has essayed in "Wanderers" and "The Last Joy" to show the enervating influence of the years. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The summer that year was particularly hot and enervating. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z The faint perfume of flower and leaf made the soft, moist air odorous and sweet, and there was a delicious coolness that seemed to give strength to her enervated frame. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z When the soft, enervating air of Corinth's luxuriousness steals over you like the mild air of Lotus-Land, 'Stand fast in the faith'! The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z The atmosphere was of the stuffy, moist, enervating character inseparable from low-lying riverside resorts. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z On the one side, at the colourlessness, the shabbiness, the squalid monotony of virtue; on the other, at the enervating and degrading effects of vice. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Between times I continued to give numerous lessons in Paris, which I found equally oppressive and enervating. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z But, though enervated by long years of luxury, and so greatly demoralised by defeats, the Britons had yet some force left. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z This is doubtless due to the location of the islands, their isolation from centres of civilization and culture, the enervating climate, lack of entertainment and desirable companionship, and distance from the homeland. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z The broad plains were free from the enervating influence of the Tropics, on the one hand, or the stern and rugged landscape features which nurse the restless Norseman, on the other. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z The evening promised to be very beautiful; something serene, calm, and melancholy, had succeeded to the enervating heat of the day. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But, with Summerlad away, nothing much happened with enervating regularity, the most interesting hours Lucinda knew were those spent in her rooms waiting for Lynn to call up on the long distance telephone. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z My enervated system did not feel able to hold up against this new affliction, and so I threw myself down among the ropes and boxes in the hold. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z She is happy only when palpitating with desire or enervated by exhaustion: the transition terrifies her like a torture. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z I have no doubt of success in a course of years if I persevere—but it must be patience—for the Reviews have enervated and made indolent 341 men’s minds—few think for themselves. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Another thing that tends to enervate the Russians and keep them in their brutified condition, is the immoderate use of brandy, to which both men and women are addicted. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z An enervating atmosphere of apathy pervaded the place, as if nothing of much moment to anybody present was either happening or expected to happen. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z His unstrung nerves kept on quivering in an enervating slumber. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z So quickly had a week of ease and luxury, of woman's society, and idle trifling enervated me! Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Poetry has no practical use; it rather enervates men than urges them to the call of duty; and above all, there are more profitable occupations in which the righteous man may be engaged. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z This great heat enervates both mind and body, and sufficiently accounts for the extreme sloth of the inhabitants. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z And, as seems the way of all indulgence taken in secret and without restraint, this of mine enervated me, made me less fit for the society of my fellow-beings. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z By separating duty from interest which ruins it, and from sentiment which enervates it, Kant restored to ethics their true character. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z It is these—the weak, the plastic, the impressible—whom your earth-born morality is corrupting, whose possibilities of happiness and self-respect your enervating woman’s-sphere-ism is destroying. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z To be with them was to breathe an atmosphere of cheerful, living peace, far removed from the fatal and enervating calmness which makes a pain of repose. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z A happy awakening, although it went too far in establishing royal absolutism; and a victory too complete, in that it enervated all the forces of resistance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z To his followers, bin Laden predicted that the U.S. would overreact to the attacks and allow itself to be drawn into an endless, enervating conflict with the Muslim world. What Osama bin Laden Misunderstood About the U.S. 2011-05-09T09:10:00Z Sloth benumbs and enervates the mind; regular work excites and strengthens it, and work is always in our power. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z I will not sleep under this roof; 'tis enervating! The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z See, without knowing it, you are enervating the defence. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The ch�teaux of the Loire, where he led a restless and enervating existence, held an atmosphere little favourable to enthusiasm and energy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The summer season is extremely enervating, and in many parts of the island actually dangerous, on account of the excessive heat and the incessant torrents of rain, which together create an unhealthy steaming miasma. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z No stoic has been as austere as stoicism, no epicurean as enervated as epicureanism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Buoyant and bracing as an elixir of life is the cool air on these mountain-sides, when the hot breath of July is enervating the dwellers in the valley below. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Each new enterprise betrayed Trochu's plan, enervated the troops, but had no effect on the courage of the National Guards engaged. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z He had learned the art from them, and London had scarce had time as yet to enervate him. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z From the physical point of view, the Cubans are inferior to their Spanish forefathers, a fact which may be attributed, perhaps, to the effect of an enervating climate on successive generations. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Ease and luxury were enervating, were depraving me. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z They had banished from all their estates a senseless custom which had enervated and depopulated the southern countries. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z All these parleys had profoundly enervated the defence. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The air becomes more and more sultry, an enervating damp odor rises from the ground, in the tree-tops rustle wonderful melodies. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The climate, especially from November to April, is somewhat enervating to the Englishman, but not unhealthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z I will wink at that; sell 'em as much Tea as you please, to enervate the Rascals, since they will not take it of me; but for God's sake don't supply them with any Arms! Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z "You certainly all live in a more enervating atmosphere," David admitted. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Science is not the characteristic trait of this period; for that is to be found in the arts or in the pleasant enervating lassitude of life. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Their wearing clothes will be an excellent thing for our manufactories, but will help to enervate the savage. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z His mind appeared less enervated than his limbs, and he bowed with an air of great courtesy to the new-comers, evincing no surprise at the appearance of strangers. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z We want no waifs and strays of civilization, enervated with excesses, or depressed with failure; men who can find no niche for themselves, who have neither the habit, the disposition, nor the education for work. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z He was already struggling against that enervating sense of insignificance which his client's presence inevitably imposed upon him. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z It was as though the enervating atmosphere of my uncle's nearness had taken from me the power of volition. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z How magnificent, how wonderfully coloured, how fantastic and exquisitely enervating was this supreme intensity of heart joy! Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z At the end everyone has his part——You the consoling consciousness of having nothing——you an enervating doubt of everything.—Farewell. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z The enervating character and unhealthfulness of the climate of the region explored proved most disastrous to the members of the expedition. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The bringing in more French Words to soften and enervate our Stile is of very ill Consequence. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z They were beginning to feel the enervating effect of the climate, and of the lack of water and proper food. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z They were a young, superb couple, but their children, who had never known the cold, were slender products of an enervating land. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Palms and roses, the heavy warm air of the conservatory, sensuous, soothing, enervating.... Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The staff is enervated and needs to reconnect with normal life, a state sorely lacking in the restaurant racket. You're the Boss: Gone Fishing! 2011-01-18T12:00:18Z The Midsummer days are often intensely hot in the interior, but the nights are cool, and the atmosphere is so dry that the heat is not enervating. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z She had not entirely lost consciousness, but cold and fatigue had combined to enervate and render her powerless of motion. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z There were a few thousand inhabitants of mixed race, and the tropical climate, though moist and enervating, is fairly salubrious. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z It enervated him to contemplate the object of his attachment; however, he shook off this feeling. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z A certain effeminacy, and even the endemic practice of odious vices, appears to have early enervated it. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z And he was getting enervated in the midst of all his relations. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z He often, but in vain, attempted to go: a soft languor enervated the powers of his mind. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Cheerfulness and sobriety are the rule; gambling and an idleness excused by the enervating influences of the too generous sun are the predominating vices, as elsewhere in Southern Spain. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The carriage rolled on, and the honeysuckles and the syringas trailed over the garden fences, sending forth puffs of enervating odour into the night air. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z If I could go back again into my early self—I wish I could—but the artificial life so perverts and enervates one, I hardly know, honestly, what I wish. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Surely just about every Tea Partier agrees with Ginsberg on the enervating effect of the liberal media: “Are you going to let our emotional life,” he once wrote, “be run by Time magazine?” Essay: The Beat Generation and the Tea Party 2010-10-09T07:30:00Z Between the enervating summer heat and the E.R.A.-inflating ballpark, Texas became a team of last resort for free-agent pitchers. Nolan Ryan?s New Pitch 2010-10-01T20:19:00Z In the years following unification, Germany was often described as "the sick man of Europe," in part because of the enervating cost of uniting two separate disparate economies. The 20-Year Miracle 2010-09-30T20:00:00Z The contemplation of this woman had an enervating effect upon him, like the use of a perfume that is too strong. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z More accurately, it is 61 percent empty after an enervating 11-year drought. Las Vegas?s Worried Water Czar 2010-09-28T16:11:00Z As I explored the city over the last few days, quirks like these gradually loomed more endearing than enervating, and there were many of them. Letter from China: Old Charms Thrive in the New Shanghai 2010-06-28T15:30:00Z Either way it seems likely to be another afternoon of enervating tension for all concerned. Charlton 1-0 Leeds 2010-05-01T20:26:00Z In summer the heat is damp and enervating, and, as Trebizond is approached, the vegetation becomes almost subtropical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" It had its martyrs, too, as well as its suicides; its sense of life as well as its enervating fear of death. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The natural enjoyment of life, the susceptibility to beauty in art and nature, the love of simplicity, were no longer possible to minds enervated and hearts deadened by the unrelieved monotony of luxurious living. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It was all over with hypocrisy, lying, and evasion, nervous anxiety, and enervating desire. The Undying Past Disease may relax the body and enervate the whole frame; but thou art the disease of the soul, the fever of the brain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Hard labour under the tropical sun and in the hot damp of the isthmus seemed to have no exhausting or enervating influence whatever upon him. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise It is true the Roman world to the eyes of Seneca lay in the shadow of death, crushed under a treacherous despotism, and enervated by gross indulgence. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Frequent indulgence in them has an enervating effect, though the majority of people need as yet no renewal of Hadrian's prohibitive legislation in this matter. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Leo felt signs already of the enervating stupefaction which always took possession of his brain in this atmosphere. The Undying Past It must be a sound constitution which can successfully withstand its enervating influence. The Story of Malta He longed to throw open all the windows, to escape from the atmosphere, in which for the first time he seemed to find some faint, enervating poison. The Hillman In Dion’s judgment as to the enervating effects of slavery on the slave-owning class, and the absence of any moral or mental distinction to justify the institution, he is in singular harmony with Seneca. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The good sense of the youth had strengthened and increased under the enervating system which would have destroyed a weaker brain and a less honest heart. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 In each instance the results are equally enervating, bringing most brides, whether rich or poor, to the one great event in their lives in an exhausted and nervous condition. What a Young Husband Ought to Know Whether this is an advantage to the intellect of man calculated to increase its strength and volume—or like luxurious diet, enervate and weaken, is a problem worthy the solution of every reader. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution But now away with this enervating dream of happiness! The Wish A Novel And the system of household slavery enervated character while it made it heartless and cruel. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius We are growing too serious, the railways and telegraph have upset us and enervated us, we are getting languid and dull. Friend Mac Donald The Latin text, which I would wish to transcribe from the learned Grotius, is rather long, and it would be enervated by translation. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion Golden days! when will ye return in the majesty of your innocence and banish from our land the enervating follies, the poisonous weeds, the impugning evils that augur the destruction of our far famed Republic. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution I soon felt the life of Paris feverish, enervating. Glories of Spain At the worst, these vices infected only a comparatively small class, idle, luxurious, enervated by the slave system, depraved by the example of a vicious court. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Places declining from the poles have attractive forces, but a little weaker and languid in the ratio of their distance; so that at length on the �quinoctial circle they are utterly enervated and evanescent. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Fear, trembling, and dread pervaded and enervated all hearts: their minds had always been full of superstition, now everything was sought for, with impulsive credulity, which could be significant of the attacks of supernatural powers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Familiarity with scenes of blood and carnage—the rage of battle and the clash of arms did not enervate the exalted powers of his refined sympathies and softer passions. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Even Valencia, so much farther south, appeared less enervating. Glories of Spain That's another danger, which mamma is always so afraid of: oh, how enervating it is; it eats up all your energy!... Majesty A Novel The woman’s rights movement is made difficult in South Africa by the following circumstances: An enervating climate “that makes people languidly content with things as they are.” The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey Climate and Population.—The climate of North Borneo is tropical, hot, damp and enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Independence, Confederation and foreign alliance are as formidable to some members of Congress—I fear a majority, as an apparition to a weak enervated woman. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Balder," said he, "I am returning to truth and nature, after having incurred the danger of being enervated by luxury. The Children of the World The variety of soft influences continually about him had a subtle, enervating effect. The Master's Violin "You have an attack of veritable 'Whitmania,' arising from a too long indulgence in the intoxicating yet enervating flow of Swinburnian superlatives?" Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 What advantage is it to a people to be clothed in costly stuffs when they are enervated, demoralized, and perishing? The Progressionists, and Angela. But, at the same time, whatever enervating element there might have been in the air of our grottoes has been thereby victoriously combated. Underground Man The dew was gone, and though Kitty remained a primitive Eve, he himself knew that in his conscious ardour there hovered the vague presence of something no longer pure, something unwholesome and enervating. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece This done, the reaction set in—aided, perhaps, by the enervating lassitude of the hot baths and the sleepy atmosphere of that forgotten village. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Notwithstanding all we hear and know of the enervating influence of the climate, the white man, if not laborious himself, is the cause that labor is in others. To Cuba and Back A wearied, enervated nature, nerves blunted by the enjoyment of all kinds of pleasures, are frequently all that remains of womanly nature. The Progressionists, and Angela. It was Philo, therefore, who was largely responsible for contaminating the pure clear air of Greek thought with the enervating fogs of oriental mysticism. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The Chinese Custom's officer at Yatung tells me that the summer months, though not hot, are relaxing and enervating. The Unveiling of Lhasa He avoided all enervating self-indulgence, and his powers of endurance surpassed those of any other member of the court. On the Heights A Novel But on this evening it was particularly enervating. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident The increased products beget luxury and the desire for enjoyment; the ultimate consequences of which enervate the individual and society. The Progressionists, and Angela. The idea of writing poetry all day and every day appeals to me as enervating and ostentatious. Plashers Mead A Novel Mere human sympathy only enervates, and in the end the soul is left weaker than before. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation The eyrie had become "tiresome," the fragrance of the orange flowers "enervating;" as for pine barrens, she never wished to see a pine barren again. East Angels Slavery and the enervating climate have left their mark on the habits of the people, whose indolence and fatalism are perhaps their most obvious qualities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" From without came the hum of insects, a hum so insistent, so enervating, and yet so Wagnerian in intensity that you would have said a nation of them celebrating a feast of love. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes She had an enervating way of asking unnecessary questions, and of laughing as though it hurt her. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel To remove me alike from the enervating influence of a mother's vanity, and the extravagant profusion and voluptuous abandonment of London habits, this was his object. Jack Hinton The Guardsman But the air was perfectly still, and so sweet that it was enervating. East Angels To the great extremes of overpowering cold and enervating heat some of the apparent incongruities of the native character may doubtless be attributed. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia But the lessons and conversation of Polydore Riches, and the cold cynicism of Mr. Trevethlan, furnished a partial antidote to its enervating tendency. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. June was not altogether disagreeable, but in July the city was visited by a heat at once insistent and enervating. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Since his death a succession of remarkable victories had made the flag of Portugal predominant, but the enervating climate, the pleasures and the plunder of Asia, began to tell on the conquerors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The soldier lay back on the cushions sipping his coffee, his eyes half shut, a pleasant feeling of indolence enervating his frame, as he gazed. The Ruined Cities of Zululand On the contrary we feel that they are too forbearing, and look to the enervating influence of their clime as an excuse for their supineness under such gross wrongs. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time At sunrise they were out of sight from the land, but so enervated by sea-sickness that some would willingly have gone back. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The hubbub was enervating, and in the air was a stench of liquor with which the sea-breeze coped in vain. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel He can nobly spread the feast, yet is he not enervated by luxury. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards It is the glory of country life that it is by no means enervated or over-civilized. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The room was pleasantly warm, and the smell of disinfectants, of medicines, and of lavender water hung in the air—the air of a sick room, oppressive and enervating. The Heart of a Woman From this day the Prince was exposed in his camp to an influence whose interest it was to slacken his march and enervate his resolutions; and from this day everything tended to a retreat. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 A long interval of tranquillity had enervated the planters of Virginia: luxury had introduced effeminate manners and dissolute habits. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The chief people surrendered themselves to all the enervating effects p. 184of pleasure and luxury. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards In a score of ways the creature comforts of a luxury loving age are surely enervating those who yield to them. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity A couple of hours’ stroll, and our two young friends began to feel a little of the enervating influence of the hot moist climate. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley So, too, over the far expanse of warrior Zululand—peaceful enough now to outward aspect in all conscience—the slumbrous yet far from enervating heat of mid-afternoon still brooded. A Frontier Mystery But the sheer restfulness of them had become a trifle enervating. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Where classical literature prevails the manly spirit which it breathes must be diffused; whenever frivolousness predominates, when refinement degenerates into whatever enervates the mind, literary ignorance is sure to complete the effeminate character. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem To remain inactive, merely enjoying the luxury of a most hospitable entertainment, was not only accomplishing nothing, but was also enervating the army. Hernando Cortez Makers of History It debilitates and enervates them, and they are not near so strong and healthy as formerly. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe It debilitates and enervates them, nor are they near so strong and healthy as formerly. Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies The air of this cloister has at length enervated your steadfast mind. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 Those arts only, the abuse of which have a certain and fatal tendency to enervate the mind, the arts of music and cookery, were passionately cultivated in all the refinement of effeminate abuse. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem For the country they cared nothing, except as it provided them with luxurious retreats where they might, for a short space, renew their enervated faculties after the dissipations of the city. Roman Women It is enervate, I suppose; but so it is. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions For some years I have recalled the long enervated Romans to arms, and have unceasingly practised them in the use of their weapons. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) This enervated his poetry, said Gray, and he says the same thing of the same method by whomsoever adopted, for nothing is done so well as at the first concoction. Methods of Authors This effect is produced, without bombast or enervating sentimentality; simply because a story founded upon fact is narrated with becoming dignity, modesty and consummate Literary Art. The History and Records of the Elephant Club Having a dinner supplied to them, they 197 give up hunting, riding, and all their native sports, and become enervated. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The Venetian feudal families pursued a mild but somewhat enervating policy towards the natives, who began to merge their nationality in that of the Latins and adopted for the island the new name of Corfu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Not only the Jesuits and Jesuitism were struck by the blow, but, in general, all that portion of Christendom, which was enervated by an easy indulgence. Priests, Women, and Families Men of the English race are often grandly strong in resistance to every form of voluptuousness; the race is fond of comfort and convenience, but it does not sacrifice its energy to enervating self-indulgence. The Intellectual Life They fill the lives of women not a few with mentally hurtful and morally enervating excitement. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Besides, the Italians are like the Chinese,——unchanged and unchangeable,—and they detest the advent of all strangers who would interfere with their own little, soft, sleepy, and enervating code of wickedness. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Like Hannibal's soldiers on the fertile plains of Lombardy, they had become enervated in the luxury of their beautiful valley. Cathedrals of Spain The studies, with which they prepare for it in the seminaries, are such as entirely ruin the disposition, weaken the body, and enervate and defile the soul. Priests, Women, and Families And now—almost on the threshold of security and firm land—again the enervating restrictions and routine, the sinister preparations, the atmosphere of sudden danger. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Remember that I lived In a different world, in an artificial and enervating atmosphere where nothing is real but Rank, nothing sweet but Station, nothing precious but Money. The Song of the Wolf At the best they could but corrupt and enervate the Church. The London Pulpit She had been enervated by the gossip of the lunch-table; a child startled by the possible horrors of a dark closet was never more absurd than she. Eden An Episode Whoever considers the following powers vested in the government, and compares them with the above, must readily perceive they are either all enervated or annihilated. Essays on the Constitution of the United States Learning does not necessarily enervate the active powers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Married at eighteen to Anselm Brevoort, a millionaire thirty years her senior, she had lived the life of luxury and dissipation inseparable from her social station, and was therefore naturally blas� and a bit enervated. The Song of the Wolf She was a wonderful girl, this Suzanne, full of grit and ability, although raised under what might have been deemed enervating circumstances. The "Genius"
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