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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I soon felt the life of Paris feverish, 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"

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

The monotonously enervating heat of the humid tropics makes man sensitive to slight temperature changes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade"

His court life was most luxurious and enervating, and the demands of his wives for all manner of indulgences were continuous. Training the Teacher

Man could now leave the forests, and wander along the shores and rivers, migrating to climates less enervating than those to which he had previously been confined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy"

The air is weighted down with heavy, resinous odours, and an enervating warmth has descended to the depths of the lower forests. In the Brooding Wild

The summer months, though not hot, are relaxing and enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"

He had not slept all night, nor eaten all day, but had struggled with the most enervating mental emotions. Timar's Two Worlds

From it, they will learn that labor, however simple or insignificant, is far nobler than any kind of enervating idleness; no matter how much that idleness may be gilded by the varnish of honor! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century

But his gallant corps was still too fresh for an enemy, not yet recovered from the enervating effects of surprise, to hold it back long. History of Morgan's Cavalry

Perhaps Mr. Brooke found the atmosphere enervating, for with a half smile and shake of the head, he rose up to go. Brooke's Daughter A Novel

Before this time he had learned how enervating were reminiscences of home; he resolutely put away the remembrance from him now, and walked on to chop the blaze on the next tree. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement

Noémi was no feeble woman; she had grown up in the desert and learned to trust in herself; the enervating influences of the outer world had never affected her mind. Timar's Two Worlds

The same enervating crust of unreality accompanied this sound as must, he imagined, light that focused itself upon a stunned rabbit at a roadside clearing. The Land of Look Behind

The urge to move off to the frontier was penned in and buried alive under the enervating comforts of civilization. The Dueling Machine

Aristotle, with his inveterate habit of subjecting all things—art, statesmanship, poetry—to ethics, regards war as a valuable discipline to the State, a protection against the enervating influence of peace. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe

Fortunately, a natural limit was set to this Capuan period. 199He would come from the winter world into the room which the American kept enervatingly warm, a pernicious practice. Aurora the Magnificent

And here was Maximilian, too, softening under the enervating blandishment, softening behind his frowns for the officious meddler. The Missourian

No one can appreciate how enervating it is just watching our skin sear and peel displaced of its water. The Land of Look Behind

He was the first musician to free himself from the enervating influence of having to write exclusively for aristocratic patronage. Music: An Art and a Language

She was very much shattered,—quite an old woman long before her time, made so by the follies of an indolent, enervating life. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart

The Bhotiyas themselves are a very timid race, entirely sunk under the enervating effects of what they call religion. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha

But these two could not so soon be quit of the enervating Land of Roses. The Missourian

England has thousands of other women who are lapped in an enervating and degrading luxury—without occupation, with none but frivolous cares—who fancy themselves infinitely superior to their poor, slaving, ill-dressed, and toilworn sisters. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

In either case it is an idle, gratuitous, enervating indulgence in "the luxury of woe" to be always afflicting ourselves with the story of his doom. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

Is it the restlessness of spring that is beginning to come over one?—the desire for action, for something different from this indolent, enervating life? Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I

There seemed to be a certain enervating influence in the atmosphere, under the effects of which the habitués of the place were plainly struck with a spirit of indolence. Due South or Cuba Past and Present

The climate is also damp, warm, and enervating, so that one would not expect to find among its inhabitants much energy or decision of character. Burma Peeps at Many Lands

If the beach was sandy, the atmosphere was enervating. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2

The black passes from an enervating, humid climate to one in which activity is pleasurable. The Negro Farmer

You will see poverty, but the degradation of filthiness and laziness is not nearly so marked as in the South and West, where the climate is warm, moist, enervating. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

In sunny Italy he lingered for some time, surrendering himself to every enervating indulgence, and even bartering the fortresses of France to purchase the luxuries in the midst of which he was reveling. Henry IV, Makers of History

To be free from such an enervating dissipation is regarded as the duty not only to one's self and one's family, but to the country as well: it is a patriotic duty. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

Of the many experiences and conditions of the soul returning to God there is a condition all too easily entered—that of an enervating, pulseless, seductive inertia. The Romance of the Soul

They were drawing nearer; they were coming toward his house, the slimmer house near Spanish Town, far up on the mountain side, where he sought relief from the enervating heats of the lower land. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main

You would have kept me in an enervating calm. Partners of the Out-Trail

He is measurably freed from the seductions of enervating pleasures. Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866

For a long time, too, we have been accustomed to think of the Oriental as the victim of enervating habits and more or less vicious forms of self-indulgence. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

For such emergencies as are now here, terrible energy is needed, and only a very perfect mind resists the enervating influence of a protracted opposition. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862

The summer, for all its enervating heat, its piercing light, was the time, so Hugh thought, for reflection. Beside Still Waters

If you have the gout, if you are old and rich, if you have delicate lungs, go to Cannes, your life will be agreeable but enervating. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

Nature here, in this protected and petted area, has the knack of being genial without being enervating, of being stimulating without "bracing" a person into the tomb. Our Italy

The inclination of most students is to depend upon the teacher with a helplessness that is as enervating as it is pitiable. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.

Indeed, highly imaginative as was Jane, her imagination was vigorous and intellectual, and her tastes led her far away from those enervating love-dreams in which a weaker mind would have indulged. Madame Roland, Makers of History

The Germans are always in danger of enervating their nationality through possessing too little of this rugged pride.—H. v. Gems (?) of German Thought

Suffice it to say that we came to the conclusion that he was suffering from an over-worked mind, disordering his digestive organs, enervating his whole frame, and threatening serious head affection. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

The Spanish people seem to be imbued with all the listlessness of those of the tropics, though not by the same enervating influence. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

Such a visionary life might have been most dangerous and mentally enervating had her organization been less robust, and the tendency to reverie not been matched by lively external perception and plentiful physical activity. Famous Women: George Sand

It is really refreshing to meet with such a work as this in these degenerate days of namby-pamby novels, so enervating to mind and morals. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

The longing for an eternal peace was Utopian and enervating.... Gems (?) of German Thought

Their dispositions have been softened, their intellects sharpened, and their sensibilities excited, by society, by Christianity, and by all the ameliorating but enervating influences of civilization. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject

It seemed rather enervating with the thermometer at 90° in the shade, these December days, but the residents did not complain. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

More than ever, in the enlarged and sweeter life which seemed opening up before her, she saw the littleness and enervating insipidity of it all. The New Tenant

The latter seemed to think that they could obtain relief by quietly yielding to the enervating effect of thirst, and travelling as slowly as their drivers would permit them. The Giraffe Hunters

The same afternoon Farragut sailed in the Hartford for the North, to enjoy a brief respite from his labors during the enervating autumn months of the Gulf climate. Admiral Farragut

Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Aristotle speak of the climate of Asia as more enervating than that of Greece. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

In coasting along the shores of Nubia, the dense air from off the land was like a sirocco, suffocatingly hot, the effect being more enervating than that of any previous experience of the journey. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

And the air too was different—purer and rarer than the enervating atmosphere of the drowsy afternoon. The New Tenant

No ages of enervating luxury, of intellectual endeavor, of life artificially preserved or ingeniously prolonged, had sapped the fibre of the men who were about to inaugurate the modern world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

Political verbiage and good living had an enervating effect on his morality. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man

It is one of the most grievous tragedies of the spiritual realm that conscience often finds the sunny climate of an ardent evangelism singularly enervating. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

It had shown no reaction either against the enervating despotism of royalty, or even the nature of the climate and soil, unequal and excessive in every way. Political Women, Vol. 2

In an insular colony, under the enervating influence of a tropical climate, the pulse of intellectual life beats very faintly, at its strongest. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

It was spring on the Yukon—the radiant, glorious spring that is sandwiched between the intense winter and the dank, enervating summer. Colorado Jim

Silence in the midst of the beating of heathen tom-toms becomes enervating and appalling; it may make a man insane. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions

The conquered race, cowed by ages of tyranny under native princes, possesses those mild and effeminate characteristics fostered by a languid and enervating climate. Through the Malay Archipelago

The heat of the summer below the 40° of latitude is more enervating, and the system becomes more easily debilitated than in the bracing atmosphere of a more northerly region. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

She was able to act and think intelligently, but the spell lay like a fog upon her will, enervating it. The Pagan Madonna

Such courage and fortitude and energy were not without effect, while the enervating influence of Capua, the following winter, demoralized the Carthaginians. Ancient States and Empires

To do this, it was necessary that the king should be kept ignorant, and should be incited only to enervating indulgence. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series

Lawson was four inches shorter than the American and he was slightly built, frail and weakened not only by illness and the enervating tropics, but by drink. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

He was inclined by temperament to the freedom of mellowed Independency rather than to the stiffness of the Presbyterians, who more successfully than their rivals resisted the enervating influences of life in Oxford. The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester

However, the crew suffered no worse inconvenience than slight colds; in fact, the change had rather a bracing effect than otherwise on men now for some time accustomed to the enervating heat of the tropics. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

The climate also of this fruitful land was salubrious without being enervating. Ancient States and Empires

Words wouldn't come when he searched for them, and the bracing sense of power he had felt half an hour ago was curiously mingled now with an enervating tenderness. Virginia

The weather, which was enervatingly warm, affected both elevens and the playing was sluggish and far from brilliant. Left Guard Gilbert

As in the enervating luxury of peace, so in the stern stringency of war we have always a use, and a good use too, for the humourist. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914

In this way they retained the warlike vigor that was lost by the races who were completely surrounded by the enervating influences of Roman civilization. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe

From the pines and from shrubs and flowers a sweet perfume arose, enervating, intoxicating, but this was as nothing to the intoxicating power in the words of Gerard. Grey Town An Australian Story

If they did they would become painfully enervating. Tongues of Conscience

Steaming showers that broke at intervals filled the air with an enervating damp, and the nights were worse than the days. Brandon of the Engineers

It was a bright spring day, of enervating softness; a fosie day—a day when the pores of everything seemed opened. The House with the Green Shutters

The atmosphere of the entire novel is just that close and enervating. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Life flows on like a moving dream that is exotic, enervating, yet intoxicating. An African Adventure

There was every possible comfort at the Court; at the same time there was an absence of all that was enervating. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School

His head ached and he was tired after working since sunrise in enervating heat. Brandon of the Engineers

After their day in the enervating furnace heat the breeze seemed biting, and the garage roof was perilously slippery. The Innocents A Story for Lovers

If he possess an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable. The Scarlet Letter

The climate is more or less enervating and it takes real Anglo-Saxon energy to resist the lure of the siesta or to remain in bed as long as possible. An African Adventure

The climate is enervating, and when the east wind blows from the African coast it is impossible to move save in the most spiritless and languid way. A Tramp's Notebook

He dropped into a canvas chair, for the air was stagnant and enervating, and looked down at the clustering lights beside the sea for a time. Brandon of the Engineers

Nowhere will ye find a more pleasant method of enervating your spirit, of forgetting your manliness in the shade of a rosebush.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Because of their altitude they are relieved of the enervating effects of tropical climate at the sea-level. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges

The inevitable effect of slavery is enervating and demoralizing. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

The only known remedy is the copious use of spirits, a large amount of which is required to counteract the enervating power of the poison. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

The climate was enervating, and Englishwomen who stayed in the country long felt it more than men, but this did not quite account for her jaded look. Brandon of the Engineers

"When one enters the avenue at Versailles," said Massillon, "one feels an enervating air." A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

He sighed and spoke— "Newspapers are very enervating," he said. The Green Carnation

Camp life has, however, its pleasures, and it must not be supposed that all succumb to its enervating influences, or that any great number yield themselves entirely to its demoralizing effects. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

His last illness, the result of his long residence in the enervating climate of Bengal, was borne with Christian patience, and drew forth the sympathy and kindly inquiry of all classes. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877

The silence was enervating; even the horses turned their gentle eyes wonderingly to that line of steel and lances; even the wounded, tremulous, haggard, held their breath between clenched teeth and stiff, swollen lips. Lorraine A romance

So gloomy at night, it was now charming with its two rows of aged limes which rustled gently while the wind wafted to him their enervating scent. En Route

Wood, even oak, might in the long run have an enervating effect on their minds. General John Regan

Nature attempts to check polygamy by reducing the number of females, and failing in this, by enervating the whole stock. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother

It every now and then gives place to the east wind, which is not nearly so hot, but is so enervating that the hot wind is greatly preferred. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877

Then resolutely he bestowed his attention upon the horses again, finding such contemplation slightly enervating to his moral sense. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

If the five-mile walk is too exhausting, then take a longer time getting to the point, when it will be exhilarating instead of enervating. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture

Nearly every person, even those unattacked, complained of the enervating effects of the climate. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900

The labour was terrible, for now it was as if they were forcing their way through a bath of hot vapour which was enervating in the extreme. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy

Because a gross and enervating luxury has overtaken us. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women

Notwithstanding the enervating influences attributed to refinement and luxury, genuine, steady courage is one of the fruits borne by a high civilization. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States

Aside from amusements that are artificial, enervating and immoral, that blight life instead of making it bloom in splendor, there are very few left to-day. The Simple Life

The climate is warm, but not enervating; the scenery is in many parts very beautiful. A Voyage round the World A book for boys

Mr. J. H. Willis, a Norwich scientist, writing in The Morning Post, condemns the daylight-saving movement on the ground that too much sunshine is enervating and that life is more virile in Northern latitudes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916

This enervating fear blends into every thought I have, whether sleeping or waking. Psychotherapy

Who has not suffered from their enervating effects? The Book-Hunter at Home

The night was unseasonably warm with enervating humidity; in that atmosphere the dormant germs of the girl’s general disgust with the metropolis and all its affairs were incubated. Joan of Arc of the North Woods

The other gave them time to fold their hands and indulge in a complacency, ridiculous as it was enervating. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

There is much about comfort in the story; yet the comfort is never enervating: it is saved from that by a tingle of something bitter and bracing in the weather. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

At first he thought the draught stimulative, but in a while he began to know that it was enervating. Despair's Last Journey

The world learned first to think only of the enervating influence of a torrid sun upon the inhabitants of the great continent, and this was not inviting to immigration. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

The enervating influences of wealth, the extreme conservatism thereby fostered, and the resulting disposition to accept any compromise rather than interfere with the free course of trade, may create conditions breeding hostilities. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

Through the whole army was that enervating moldiness, lightened only by an occasional gleam from those "crack companies" so much doubted in the beginning of the war. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

The September morning was warmer and more enervating than September mornings in Maryland usually are, though the month is generally conceded to be a trying one. Peggy Stewart at School

In this man of iron sudden success was insidiously at work, enervating his powers. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

“A useful phrase at times, of the nature of a tonic, amidst our enervating civilisation,” she reflected. The Daughters of Danaus

And in these places the air is apt to be both hot and impure, and all the physical conditions enervating. On the Firing Line in Education

In the first place, like other heroes and heroines, she experienced the enervating effects of opposition and vacillating purpose in others. The Settler and the Savage

It was now the middle of June, and the weather, even at Skelwick, was hot and enervating. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story

Here, we have an example of degeneration in the mentality of an animal incident to the enervating influence of slavery. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

The practice of wearing mufflers, or any tight wrapping round the neck region, is injurious and enervating to this part of the body. Papers on Health

He found man more than ever treacherous and ungrateful—woman more than ever deceiving—indulgence, cloying—debauchery, enervating and his constitution and his spirits exhausted by excess. The King's Own

The pursuit of mere physical enjoyment and luxury is recognised as having an enervating and blunting effect upon the finer spiritual faculties: it puts the instrument out of tune and spoils its tone. Spirit and Music

He is ready to be harsh when harshness is required, abrupt for some sharp effect; he holds out against the enervating allurements of alliteration; he can stop when he has said the essential thing. Figures of Several Centuries

In Strongylognathus the enervating influence of slavery has gone further, and told even on the bodily strength. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

What comes from the artificial conditions of the city is weakening, enervating, softening. Pushing to the Front

But that is because you do not know the rapidly enervating and at the same time fascinating mastery which gambling has on the mind of one who gives way to it. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

The enervating effect of the heat seemed to be as strongly revealed in them as it was in ourselves. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story

So enervating were the conditions that none of us cared to make the slightest unnecessary movement; yet the steady decline of the mercury was a warning that I dared not ignore. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

This is truly a wonderful picture of mental and physical degeneration incident to the enervating influences of slavery. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

Their moist tropical lands, near the coasts, were enervating, and no united organisation for defence against the enslaving intruders was possible to them. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development

Here too was a warm climate congenial to the Negro, though enervating and often unhealthful for the white. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

The heat is the same all the year round—not very excessive, seldom 104°, but still oppressive and enervating because of the humidity of the air. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People

Daudet's is French, softer, more enervating, and with an almost complacent dwelling on the sins of the flesh. The Nabob, Volume 1

The sight of the place with its placid, enervating beauty, its constant appeal to the senses, was beginning to have a curious effect upon his nerves. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

The heat, instead of being enervating, is stimulating and bracing. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)

This indulgence of memory is not necessarily a weakening or an enervating thing, so long as it does not come to us too early, or disengage us from needful activities. Joyous Gard

In summer enervating heat prevails over the lowlands of India, and all Europeans who are not absolutely tied to their posts move up to the hills. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People

There was no sort of enervating tenderness in that uninterrupted outpouring of health, capacity and joyousness. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands

The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. A Preface to Politics

Oloron, finely situated on a height, is a wide, open, clean, and well-built town, with so much open, fresh air, that, after the enervating and confined atmosphere of Pau, one seemed to breathe new life. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre

Our Duke ordered his horses, and as he rattled along recovered from the enervating effects of his soft reverie. The Young Duke

The past is a dream; and, in the waking present, we should discard the enervating shadow. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity

Authors are universally agreed, from Galen down to the present day, about the pernicious influence of this enervating indulgence, and its strong propensity to generate the very worst and most formidable kinds of insanity. Plain Facts for Old and Young

And always the soft wind blew, the soft, enervating wind of the Tropics. Civilization Tales of the Orient

For it was there, in the midst of those unassisting and enervating surroundings, he dimly felt, that he himself was to choose one of two strangely divergent paths. Phantom Wires A Novel

Capua was celebrated for its wealth and luxury, and the enervating effect which these produced upon the army of Hannibal became a favorite theme of rhetorical exaggeration in later ages. A Smaller History of Rome

He knew that tempers were edgy and explosive in this enervating heat, and usually tried to bear Gorton's insults and petty meannesses in silence. Man of Many Minds

March had gone out like an idiotic lamb, and April came in in sapping rain and enervating mist. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel

It was the heat, of course—the stifling, enervating heat. Civilization Tales of the Orient

But somehow, for the rest of the ride, it seemed to her that the sun was less bright, the wind even had become chilly, and altogether there was a curious, enervating world-weariness hanging over everything. The Forfeit

Their indolence, the effect of their enervating climate, was well-nigh invincible; they preferred hunger to trouble, and withal their customs were abhorrent to Christian morality. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field

"You must go home also, mother," Vane said to Lady Isabel, after their departure, "it will not do for you to remain longer in this enervating climate." His Heart's Queen

It had been a wretched day—a day of sopping rain and enervating mist. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel

In the discharge of such an obligation, to which the special circumstances resulting from an excessive and enervating materialism now prevailing in their country lend particular significance, they must play a conspicuous and predominant role. The Advent of Divine Justice

It was the reentering into the communal life that had upset his poise—or was it the influence of the woman, the softly pervasive, enervating influence? The Emigrant Trail

There was a salt tang of seaweed, too, like an undertone, a foundation for all the other smells; and the air was warm with a hint of summer, a softness that was not enervating. The Golden Silence

Its foreflung and enervating shadow shall neither transform us into devils nor degrade us into beasts. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Sultry, parching, enervating, sure precursor, if she had thought to remember, if she had been less engrossed in the bitterness of her questionings, of a storm. The Way of the Wind

The first three years succeeding his graduation had been those of enervating peace; all of which palled on the soul of Lieutenant Jack to a large degree. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

The atmosphere was enervating here, and emotion is contagious. All Aboard A Story for Girls

The enervating blight of luxury and the despair of pinching want were strangers in their midst. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O

As it leads to vain regrets, it is at best an enervating enjoyment, and a needless pain. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists

Once again he had to face an enervating equatorial heat that vitiated both mind and body. Never-Fail Blake

The battalion marched down to Aveluy, near Albert, on an enervatingly hot day and remained one night in huts there. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919

We must pay for our privileges, and if a town is built in a hollow, and is sheltered from the east wind, the chances are that its climate will be enervating. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891

No," says I to myself, in a supremely virtuous manner, "I shall not be beaten by this enervating existence here. My War Experiences in Two Continents

If these things were brought to our attention, we excused them on the grounds of Latin blood and enervating climate. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

Undoubtedly the dose was a drug—some enervating and insidious drug. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

It was, nevertheless, true that the enervating atmosphere by which he was surrounded was the cause of all the evil at his court. In the World War

It is a matter for wonder that even one religious is left, after all this labor and service in so hot and enervating a country.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

The choice might have been worse, for the fiction to which he had access was more enervating. The Zeit-Geist

Until some remedy be found for this enervating system, it would seem as if Spanish agriculture is doomed to remain in its present unsatisfactory condition over a great part of the kingdom. Spanish Life in Town and Country

"Illness—loneliness—depression; this enervating climate; having nothing particular to do; an idle woman of forty has no business in Burma." The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

I know not whether it be incipient illness, or the enervating effects of this soft climate, but I feel unusually weak, and the least exertion or excitement is not only disagreeable but painful. The Diary of an Ennuyée

In the north of the Continent the enervating climate, facile conquest, and easy life had naturally tended to atrophy the energy of the Spaniards. South America

How will men with minds relaxed by the enervating ease and softness of luxury have vigour to oppose it? Dialogues of the Dead

If the enervating influence of these factors is combined with a greater clumsiness due to cold and perhaps to colds, it is not difficult to account for this type of seasonal distribution of accidents. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization

Hence, no boy will demean himself by flying in the face of public sentiment through indulging in any practice that this sentiment proclaims unclean or enervating. The Vitalized School

The blazing atmosphere which depresses the eyelids, the enervating heat, and the rich perfume of the flowers all around us, are almost too much. The Diary of an Ennuyée

They watched him depart in a cloud of dust, and then played the most enervating game in existence—that of waiting; for they had decided to wait till they heard from Ahmed before they moved. The Adventures of Kathlyn

They draw you towards them as do the sirens, are as deadly as poison, admirably fantastic, enervating, dreadful. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4

That sort of waiting is very vexatious, that ... useless waiting ... very annoying and enervating. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3

More than ever it seemed to Tallente that the atmosphere of the room had changed, had become in some subtle way at the same time more enervating and more exciting. Nobody's Man

All these affections are easily explained by the nature of factory-work, which is, as the manufacturers say, very “light,” and precisely by reason of its lightness, more enervating than any other. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892

The atmosphere of the place seemed to him somehow enervating. A People's Man

I answered, 'our democracy is like Parr's Life Pills, enervating and elasticating. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth

There is something enervating to a northern race in these subtropical climates. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters

The atmosphere beneath the closely growing trees—limes, with great waxy buds—became enervating with spring odours and a momentary breathlessness came to Tallente, fresh from his crowded days and nights of battle. Nobody's Man

Is it worth while, then, to play golf, to linger in your flower gardens, to become a dilettante student, to dream away your days in the idleness of a purely enervating culture? A Lost Leader

Free these masses from the enervating parasite that consumed all their energies—for Dr. Stiles had discovered that the disease afflicted the great majority of the rural classes—and a new generation would result. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

Such was undoubtedly the invigorating leaven brought into Gaul by the Frank, although for a time he succumbed to the enervating Gallic influence, and, while conquering and subduing, was himself conquered and subdued. A Short History of France

"Yes, India is enervating," she commented in a flat tone. Caste

Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. General Science

To give the net product of inquiry, without the inquiry that leads to it, is found to be both enervating and inefficient. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library

Besides, as one of the Cambridge men of the party, a young medical student, remarked: the thin, cold air of these high mountains was extremely enervating. All Around the Moon

Friendship alone returns as much as it receives; it fortifies instead of enervating; it is the only passion worthy of a man. Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume

The heat, which in the uplands is pleasant, though rather too steady in the plains, becomes oppressive and enervating. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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例句	enervating On the contrary: if something’s enervating, it drains you of energy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z McCoy feared that the rarefied air in the Enterprise was enervating the crew. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Avoid it unless the meaning is clear. enervating. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 More enervating is the plot’s allergy to any sustained tension. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes It's enervating, sunbaked and, for all that, rather thrilling. Wooden Shjips: West - review 2011-08-11T20:45:01Z The format was clunky and enervating, too, killing off the few funny lines. Happy Tuesdays 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z 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 We dutifully attend enervating screeds like today’s double feature in the Competition. Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus 2012-05-18T15:27:07Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It has a very enervating effect on our society and our economy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z 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 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 “We the People” is, alas, an enervating spectacle. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z They are not starving but are condemned to an enervating whittling away of their physical resources. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z 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 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 Unfortunately, it’s a confused and frequently enervating effort. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 But there was something oddly enervating about the programme. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 And to be always under influence of a stimulant is enervating. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Luxury is recognizedly one of the most enervating influences. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z 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 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 There was something enervating and soporific in the steamy atmosphere. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 His unstrung nerves kept on quivering in an enervating slumber. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It was all over with hypocrisy, lying, and evasion, nervous anxiety, and enervating desire. The Undying Past 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 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 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 It must be a sound constitution which can successfully withstand its enervating influence. The Story of Malta Leo felt signs already of the enervating stupefaction which always took possession of his brain in this atmosphere. The Undying Past 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 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 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 But now away with this enervating dream of happiness! The Wish A Novel I soon felt the life of Paris feverish, 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" The variety of soft influences continually about him had a subtle, enervating effect. The Master's Violin Even Valencia, so much farther south, appeared less enervating. Glories of Spain "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 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 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 idea of writing poetry all day and every day appeals to me as enervating and ostentatious. Plashers Mead A Novel 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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" 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 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 She was a wonderful girl, this Suzanne, full of grit and ability, although raised under what might have been deemed enervating circumstances. The "Genius" The monotonously enervating heat of the humid tropics makes man sensitive to slight temperature changes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" His court life was most luxurious and enervating, and the demands of his wives for all manner of indulgences were continuous. Training the Teacher Man could now leave the forests, and wander along the shores and rivers, migrating to climates less enervating than those to which he had previously been confined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The air is weighted down with heavy, resinous odours, and an enervating warmth has descended to the depths of the lower forests. In the Brooding Wild The summer months, though not hot, are relaxing and enervating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" He had not slept all night, nor eaten all day, but had struggled with the most enervating mental emotions. Timar's Two Worlds From it, they will learn that labor, however simple or insignificant, is far nobler than any kind of enervating idleness; no matter how much that idleness may be gilded by the varnish of honor! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century But his gallant corps was still too fresh for an enemy, not yet recovered from the enervating effects of surprise, to hold it back long. History of Morgan's Cavalry Perhaps Mr. Brooke found the atmosphere enervating, for with a half smile and shake of the head, he rose up to go. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Before this time he had learned how enervating were reminiscences of home; he resolutely put away the remembrance from him now, and walked on to chop the blaze on the next tree. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Noémi was no feeble woman; she had grown up in the desert and learned to trust in herself; the enervating influences of the outer world had never affected her mind. Timar's Two Worlds The same enervating crust of unreality accompanied this sound as must, he imagined, light that focused itself upon a stunned rabbit at a roadside clearing. The Land of Look Behind The urge to move off to the frontier was penned in and buried alive under the enervating comforts of civilization. The Dueling Machine Aristotle, with his inveterate habit of subjecting all things—art, statesmanship, poetry—to ethics, regards war as a valuable discipline to the State, a protection against the enervating influence of peace. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Fortunately, a natural limit was set to this Capuan period. 199He would come from the winter world into the room which the American kept enervatingly warm, a pernicious practice. Aurora the Magnificent And here was Maximilian, too, softening under the enervating blandishment, softening behind his frowns for the officious meddler. The Missourian No one can appreciate how enervating it is just watching our skin sear and peel displaced of its water. The Land of Look Behind He was the first musician to free himself from the enervating influence of having to write exclusively for aristocratic patronage. Music: An Art and a Language She was very much shattered,—quite an old woman long before her time, made so by the follies of an indolent, enervating life. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The Bhotiyas themselves are a very timid race, entirely sunk under the enervating effects of what they call religion. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha But these two could not so soon be quit of the enervating Land of Roses. The Missourian England has thousands of other women who are lapped in an enervating and degrading luxury—without occupation, with none but frivolous cares—who fancy themselves infinitely superior to their poor, slaving, ill-dressed, and toilworn sisters. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) In either case it is an idle, gratuitous, enervating indulgence in "the luxury of woe" to be always afflicting ourselves with the story of his doom. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Is it the restlessness of spring that is beginning to come over one?—the desire for action, for something different from this indolent, enervating life? Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I There seemed to be a certain enervating influence in the atmosphere, under the effects of which the habitués of the place were plainly struck with a spirit of indolence. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The climate is also damp, warm, and enervating, so that one would not expect to find among its inhabitants much energy or decision of character. Burma Peeps at Many Lands If the beach was sandy, the atmosphere was enervating. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 The black passes from an enervating, humid climate to one in which activity is pleasurable. The Negro Farmer You will see poverty, but the degradation of filthiness and laziness is not nearly so marked as in the South and West, where the climate is warm, moist, enervating. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule In sunny Italy he lingered for some time, surrendering himself to every enervating indulgence, and even bartering the fortresses of France to purchase the luxuries in the midst of which he was reveling. Henry IV, Makers of History To be free from such an enervating dissipation is regarded as the duty not only to one's self and one's family, but to the country as well: it is a patriotic duty. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Of the many experiences and conditions of the soul returning to God there is a condition all too easily entered—that of an enervating, pulseless, seductive inertia. The Romance of the Soul They were drawing nearer; they were coming toward his house, the slimmer house near Spanish Town, far up on the mountain side, where he sought relief from the enervating heats of the lower land. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main You would have kept me in an enervating calm. Partners of the Out-Trail He is measurably freed from the seductions of enervating pleasures. Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 For a long time, too, we have been accustomed to think of the Oriental as the victim of enervating habits and more or less vicious forms of self-indulgence. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions For such emergencies as are now here, terrible energy is needed, and only a very perfect mind resists the enervating influence of a protracted opposition. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The summer, for all its enervating heat, its piercing light, was the time, so Hugh thought, for reflection. Beside Still Waters If you have the gout, if you are old and rich, if you have delicate lungs, go to Cannes, your life will be agreeable but enervating. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Nature here, in this protected and petted area, has the knack of being genial without being enervating, of being stimulating without "bracing" a person into the tomb. Our Italy The inclination of most students is to depend upon the teacher with a helplessness that is as enervating as it is pitiable. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Indeed, highly imaginative as was Jane, her imagination was vigorous and intellectual, and her tastes led her far away from those enervating love-dreams in which a weaker mind would have indulged. Madame Roland, Makers of History The Germans are always in danger of enervating their nationality through possessing too little of this rugged pride.—H. v. Gems (?) of German Thought Suffice it to say that we came to the conclusion that he was suffering from an over-worked mind, disordering his digestive organs, enervating his whole frame, and threatening serious head affection. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The Spanish people seem to be imbued with all the listlessness of those of the tropics, though not by the same enervating influence. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Such a visionary life might have been most dangerous and mentally enervating had her organization been less robust, and the tendency to reverie not been matched by lively external perception and plentiful physical activity. Famous Women: George Sand It is really refreshing to meet with such a work as this in these degenerate days of namby-pamby novels, so enervating to mind and morals. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier The longing for an eternal peace was Utopian and enervating.... Gems (?) of German Thought Their dispositions have been softened, their intellects sharpened, and their sensibilities excited, by society, by Christianity, and by all the ameliorating but enervating influences of civilization. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It seemed rather enervating with the thermometer at 90° in the shade, these December days, but the residents did not complain. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months More than ever, in the enlarged and sweeter life which seemed opening up before her, she saw the littleness and enervating insipidity of it all. The New Tenant The latter seemed to think that they could obtain relief by quietly yielding to the enervating effect of thirst, and travelling as slowly as their drivers would permit them. The Giraffe Hunters The same afternoon Farragut sailed in the Hartford for the North, to enjoy a brief respite from his labors during the enervating autumn months of the Gulf climate. Admiral Farragut Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Aristotle speak of the climate of Asia as more enervating than that of Greece. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles In coasting along the shores of Nubia, the dense air from off the land was like a sirocco, suffocatingly hot, the effect being more enervating than that of any previous experience of the journey. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months And the air too was different—purer and rarer than the enervating atmosphere of the drowsy afternoon. The New Tenant No ages of enervating luxury, of intellectual endeavor, of life artificially preserved or ingeniously prolonged, had sapped the fibre of the men who were about to inaugurate the modern world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Political verbiage and good living had an enervating effect on his morality. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man It is one of the most grievous tragedies of the spiritual realm that conscience often finds the sunny climate of an ardent evangelism singularly enervating. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds It had shown no reaction either against the enervating despotism of royalty, or even the nature of the climate and soil, unequal and excessive in every way. Political Women, Vol. 2 In an insular colony, under the enervating influence of a tropical climate, the pulse of intellectual life beats very faintly, at its strongest. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It was spring on the Yukon—the radiant, glorious spring that is sandwiched between the intense winter and the dank, enervating summer. Colorado Jim Silence in the midst of the beating of heathen tom-toms becomes enervating and appalling; it may make a man insane. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions The conquered race, cowed by ages of tyranny under native princes, possesses those mild and effeminate characteristics fostered by a languid and enervating climate. Through the Malay Archipelago The heat of the summer below the 40° of latitude is more enervating, and the system becomes more easily debilitated than in the bracing atmosphere of a more northerly region. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West She was able to act and think intelligently, but the spell lay like a fog upon her will, enervating it. The Pagan Madonna Such courage and fortitude and energy were not without effect, while the enervating influence of Capua, the following winter, demoralized the Carthaginians. Ancient States and Empires To do this, it was necessary that the king should be kept ignorant, and should be incited only to enervating indulgence. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Lawson was four inches shorter than the American and he was slightly built, frail and weakened not only by illness and the enervating tropics, but by drink. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands He was inclined by temperament to the freedom of mellowed Independency rather than to the stiffness of the Presbyterians, who more successfully than their rivals resisted the enervating influences of life in Oxford. The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester However, the crew suffered no worse inconvenience than slight colds; in fact, the change had rather a bracing effect than otherwise on men now for some time accustomed to the enervating heat of the tropics. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The climate also of this fruitful land was salubrious without being enervating. Ancient States and Empires Words wouldn't come when he searched for them, and the bracing sense of power he had felt half an hour ago was curiously mingled now with an enervating tenderness. Virginia The weather, which was enervatingly warm, affected both elevens and the playing was sluggish and far from brilliant. Left Guard Gilbert As in the enervating luxury of peace, so in the stern stringency of war we have always a use, and a good use too, for the humourist. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 In this way they retained the warlike vigor that was lost by the races who were completely surrounded by the enervating influences of Roman civilization. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe From the pines and from shrubs and flowers a sweet perfume arose, enervating, intoxicating, but this was as nothing to the intoxicating power in the words of Gerard. Grey Town An Australian Story If they did they would become painfully enervating. Tongues of Conscience Steaming showers that broke at intervals filled the air with an enervating damp, and the nights were worse than the days. Brandon of the Engineers It was a bright spring day, of enervating softness; a fosie day—a day when the pores of everything seemed opened. The House with the Green Shutters The atmosphere of the entire novel is just that close and enervating. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Life flows on like a moving dream that is exotic, enervating, yet intoxicating. An African Adventure There was every possible comfort at the Court; at the same time there was an absence of all that was enervating. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School His head ached and he was tired after working since sunrise in enervating heat. Brandon of the Engineers After their day in the enervating furnace heat the breeze seemed biting, and the garage roof was perilously slippery. The Innocents A Story for Lovers If he possess an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable. The Scarlet Letter The climate is more or less enervating and it takes real Anglo-Saxon energy to resist the lure of the siesta or to remain in bed as long as possible. An African Adventure The climate is enervating, and when the east wind blows from the African coast it is impossible to move save in the most spiritless and languid way. A Tramp's Notebook He dropped into a canvas chair, for the air was stagnant and enervating, and looked down at the clustering lights beside the sea for a time. Brandon of the Engineers Nowhere will ye find a more pleasant method of enervating your spirit, of forgetting your manliness in the shade of a rosebush.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Because of their altitude they are relieved of the enervating effects of tropical climate at the sea-level. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The inevitable effect of slavery is enervating and demoralizing. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The only known remedy is the copious use of spirits, a large amount of which is required to counteract the enervating power of the poison. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The climate was enervating, and Englishwomen who stayed in the country long felt it more than men, but this did not quite account for her jaded look. Brandon of the Engineers "When one enters the avenue at Versailles," said Massillon, "one feels an enervating air." A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. He sighed and spoke— "Newspapers are very enervating," he said. The Green Carnation Camp life has, however, its pleasures, and it must not be supposed that all succumb to its enervating influences, or that any great number yield themselves entirely to its demoralizing effects. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy His last illness, the result of his long residence in the enervating climate of Bengal, was borne with Christian patience, and drew forth the sympathy and kindly inquiry of all classes. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The silence was enervating; even the horses turned their gentle eyes wonderingly to that line of steel and lances; even the wounded, tremulous, haggard, held their breath between clenched teeth and stiff, swollen lips. Lorraine A romance So gloomy at night, it was now charming with its two rows of aged limes which rustled gently while the wind wafted to him their enervating scent. En Route Wood, even oak, might in the long run have an enervating effect on their minds. General John Regan Nature attempts to check polygamy by reducing the number of females, and failing in this, by enervating the whole stock. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother It every now and then gives place to the east wind, which is not nearly so hot, but is so enervating that the hot wind is greatly preferred. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 Then resolutely he bestowed his attention upon the horses again, finding such contemplation slightly enervating to his moral sense. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance If the five-mile walk is too exhausting, then take a longer time getting to the point, when it will be exhilarating instead of enervating. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Nearly every person, even those unattacked, complained of the enervating effects of the climate. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 The labour was terrible, for now it was as if they were forcing their way through a bath of hot vapour which was enervating in the extreme. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Because a gross and enervating luxury has overtaken us. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Notwithstanding the enervating influences attributed to refinement and luxury, genuine, steady courage is one of the fruits borne by a high civilization. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States Aside from amusements that are artificial, enervating and immoral, that blight life instead of making it bloom in splendor, there are very few left to-day. The Simple Life The climate is warm, but not enervating; the scenery is in many parts very beautiful. A Voyage round the World A book for boys Mr. J. H. Willis, a Norwich scientist, writing in The Morning Post, condemns the daylight-saving movement on the ground that too much sunshine is enervating and that life is more virile in Northern latitudes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 This enervating fear blends into every thought I have, whether sleeping or waking. Psychotherapy Who has not suffered from their enervating effects? The Book-Hunter at Home The night was unseasonably warm with enervating humidity; in that atmosphere the dormant germs of the girl’s general disgust with the metropolis and all its affairs were incubated. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The other gave them time to fold their hands and indulge in a complacency, ridiculous as it was enervating. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death There is much about comfort in the story; yet the comfort is never enervating: it is saved from that by a tingle of something bitter and bracing in the weather. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens At first he thought the draught stimulative, but in a while he began to know that it was enervating. Despair's Last Journey The world learned first to think only of the enervating influence of a torrid sun upon the inhabitants of the great continent, and this was not inviting to immigration. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time The enervating influences of wealth, the extreme conservatism thereby fostered, and the resulting disposition to accept any compromise rather than interfere with the free course of trade, may create conditions breeding hostilities. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Through the whole army was that enervating moldiness, lightened only by an occasional gleam from those "crack companies" so much doubted in the beginning of the war. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The September morning was warmer and more enervating than September mornings in Maryland usually are, though the month is generally conceded to be a trying one. Peggy Stewart at School In this man of iron sudden success was insidiously at work, enervating his powers. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance “A useful phrase at times, of the nature of a tonic, amidst our enervating civilisation,” she reflected. The Daughters of Danaus And in these places the air is apt to be both hot and impure, and all the physical conditions enervating. On the Firing Line in Education In the first place, like other heroes and heroines, she experienced the enervating effects of opposition and vacillating purpose in others. The Settler and the Savage It was now the middle of June, and the weather, even at Skelwick, was hot and enervating. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Here, we have an example of degeneration in the mentality of an animal incident to the enervating influence of slavery. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals The practice of wearing mufflers, or any tight wrapping round the neck region, is injurious and enervating to this part of the body. Papers on Health He found man more than ever treacherous and ungrateful—woman more than ever deceiving—indulgence, cloying—debauchery, enervating and his constitution and his spirits exhausted by excess. The King's Own The pursuit of mere physical enjoyment and luxury is recognised as having an enervating and blunting effect upon the finer spiritual faculties: it puts the instrument out of tune and spoils its tone. Spirit and Music He is ready to be harsh when harshness is required, abrupt for some sharp effect; he holds out against the enervating allurements of alliteration; he can stop when he has said the essential thing. Figures of Several Centuries In Strongylognathus the enervating influence of slavery has gone further, and told even on the bodily strength. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals What comes from the artificial conditions of the city is weakening, enervating, softening. Pushing to the Front But that is because you do not know the rapidly enervating and at the same time fascinating mastery which gambling has on the mind of one who gives way to it. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys The enervating effect of the heat seemed to be as strongly revealed in them as it was in ourselves. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story So enervating were the conditions that none of us cared to make the slightest unnecessary movement; yet the steady decline of the mercury was a warning that I dared not ignore. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn This is truly a wonderful picture of mental and physical degeneration incident to the enervating influences of slavery. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Their moist tropical lands, near the coasts, were enervating, and no united organisation for defence against the enslaving intruders was possible to them. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Here too was a warm climate congenial to the Negro, though enervating and often unhealthful for the white. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 The heat is the same all the year round—not very excessive, seldom 104°, but still oppressive and enervating because of the humidity of the air. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Daudet's is French, softer, more enervating, and with an almost complacent dwelling on the sins of the flesh. The Nabob, Volume 1 The sight of the place with its placid, enervating beauty, its constant appeal to the senses, was beginning to have a curious effect upon his nerves. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The heat, instead of being enervating, is stimulating and bracing. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) This indulgence of memory is not necessarily a weakening or an enervating thing, so long as it does not come to us too early, or disengage us from needful activities. Joyous Gard In summer enervating heat prevails over the lowlands of India, and all Europeans who are not absolutely tied to their posts move up to the hills. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People There was no sort of enervating tenderness in that uninterrupted outpouring of health, capacity and joyousness. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. A Preface to Politics Oloron, finely situated on a height, is a wide, open, clean, and well-built town, with so much open, fresh air, that, after the enervating and confined atmosphere of Pau, one seemed to breathe new life. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Our Duke ordered his horses, and as he rattled along recovered from the enervating effects of his soft reverie. The Young Duke The past is a dream; and, in the waking present, we should discard the enervating shadow. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Authors are universally agreed, from Galen down to the present day, about the pernicious influence of this enervating indulgence, and its strong propensity to generate the very worst and most formidable kinds of insanity. Plain Facts for Old and Young And always the soft wind blew, the soft, enervating wind of the Tropics. Civilization Tales of the Orient For it was there, in the midst of those unassisting and enervating surroundings, he dimly felt, that he himself was to choose one of two strangely divergent paths. Phantom Wires A Novel Capua was celebrated for its wealth and luxury, and the enervating effect which these produced upon the army of Hannibal became a favorite theme of rhetorical exaggeration in later ages. A Smaller History of Rome He knew that tempers were edgy and explosive in this enervating heat, and usually tried to bear Gorton's insults and petty meannesses in silence. Man of Many Minds March had gone out like an idiotic lamb, and April came in in sapping rain and enervating mist. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel It was the heat, of course—the stifling, enervating heat. Civilization Tales of the Orient But somehow, for the rest of the ride, it seemed to her that the sun was less bright, the wind even had become chilly, and altogether there was a curious, enervating world-weariness hanging over everything. The Forfeit Their indolence, the effect of their enervating climate, was well-nigh invincible; they preferred hunger to trouble, and withal their customs were abhorrent to Christian morality. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field "You must go home also, mother," Vane said to Lady Isabel, after their departure, "it will not do for you to remain longer in this enervating climate." His Heart's Queen It had been a wretched day—a day of sopping rain and enervating mist. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel In the discharge of such an obligation, to which the special circumstances resulting from an excessive and enervating materialism now prevailing in their country lend particular significance, they must play a conspicuous and predominant role. The Advent of Divine Justice It was the reentering into the communal life that had upset his poise—or was it the influence of the woman, the softly pervasive, enervating influence? The Emigrant Trail There was a salt tang of seaweed, too, like an undertone, a foundation for all the other smells; and the air was warm with a hint of summer, a softness that was not enervating. The Golden Silence Its foreflung and enervating shadow shall neither transform us into devils nor degrade us into beasts. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Sultry, parching, enervating, sure precursor, if she had thought to remember, if she had been less engrossed in the bitterness of her questionings, of a storm. The Way of the Wind The first three years succeeding his graduation had been those of enervating peace; all of which palled on the soul of Lieutenant Jack to a large degree. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers The atmosphere was enervating here, and emotion is contagious. All Aboard A Story for Girls The enervating blight of luxury and the despair of pinching want were strangers in their midst. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O As it leads to vain regrets, it is at best an enervating enjoyment, and a needless pain. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Once again he had to face an enervating equatorial heat that vitiated both mind and body. Never-Fail Blake The battalion marched down to Aveluy, near Albert, on an enervatingly hot day and remained one night in huts there. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 We must pay for our privileges, and if a town is built in a hollow, and is sheltered from the east wind, the chances are that its climate will be enervating. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 No," says I to myself, in a supremely virtuous manner, "I shall not be beaten by this enervating existence here. My War Experiences in Two Continents If these things were brought to our attention, we excused them on the grounds of Latin blood and enervating climate. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Undoubtedly the dose was a drug—some enervating and insidious drug. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma It was, nevertheless, true that the enervating atmosphere by which he was surrounded was the cause of all the evil at his court. In the World War It is a matter for wonder that even one religious is left, after all this labor and service in so hot and enervating a country.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The choice might have been worse, for the fiction to which he had access was more enervating. The Zeit-Geist Until some remedy be found for this enervating system, it would seem as if Spanish agriculture is doomed to remain in its present unsatisfactory condition over a great part of the kingdom. Spanish Life in Town and Country "Illness—loneliness—depression; this enervating climate; having nothing particular to do; an idle woman of forty has no business in Burma." The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma I know not whether it be incipient illness, or the enervating effects of this soft climate, but I feel unusually weak, and the least exertion or excitement is not only disagreeable but painful. The Diary of an Ennuyée In the north of the Continent the enervating climate, facile conquest, and easy life had naturally tended to atrophy the energy of the Spaniards. South America How will men with minds relaxed by the enervating ease and softness of luxury have vigour to oppose it? Dialogues of the Dead If the enervating influence of these factors is combined with a greater clumsiness due to cold and perhaps to colds, it is not difficult to account for this type of seasonal distribution of accidents. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Hence, no boy will demean himself by flying in the face of public sentiment through indulging in any practice that this sentiment proclaims unclean or enervating. The Vitalized School The blazing atmosphere which depresses the eyelids, the enervating heat, and the rich perfume of the flowers all around us, are almost too much. The Diary of an Ennuyée They watched him depart in a cloud of dust, and then played the most enervating game in existence—that of waiting; for they had decided to wait till they heard from Ahmed before they moved. The Adventures of Kathlyn They draw you towards them as do the sirens, are as deadly as poison, admirably fantastic, enervating, dreadful. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 That sort of waiting is very vexatious, that ... useless waiting ... very annoying and enervating. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 More than ever it seemed to Tallente that the atmosphere of the room had changed, had become in some subtle way at the same time more enervating and more exciting. Nobody's Man All these affections are easily explained by the nature of factory-work, which is, as the manufacturers say, very “light,” and precisely by reason of its lightness, more enervating than any other. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The atmosphere of the place seemed to him somehow enervating. A People's Man I answered, 'our democracy is like Parr's Life Pills, enervating and elasticating. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth There is something enervating to a northern race in these subtropical climates. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters The atmosphere beneath the closely growing trees—limes, with great waxy buds—became enervating with spring odours and a momentary breathlessness came to Tallente, fresh from his crowded days and nights of battle. Nobody's Man Is it worth while, then, to play golf, to linger in your flower gardens, to become a dilettante student, to dream away your days in the idleness of a purely enervating culture? A Lost Leader Free these masses from the enervating parasite that consumed all their energies—for Dr. Stiles had discovered that the disease afflicted the great majority of the rural classes—and a new generation would result. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Such was undoubtedly the invigorating leaven brought into Gaul by the Frank, although for a time he succumbed to the enervating Gallic influence, and, while conquering and subduing, was himself conquered and subdued. A Short History of France "Yes, India is enervating," she commented in a flat tone. Caste Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. General Science To give the net product of inquiry, without the inquiry that leads to it, is found to be both enervating and inefficient. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Besides, as one of the Cambridge men of the party, a young medical student, remarked: the thin, cold air of these high mountains was extremely enervating. All Around the Moon Friendship alone returns as much as it receives; it fortifies instead of enervating; it is the only passion worthy of a man. Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume The heat, which in the uplands is pleasant, though rather too steady in the plains, becomes oppressive and enervating. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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