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In this culture, we are deadened to the effects of our lives on other people, other animals, on natural resources every day.
The recent fall of snow, laid in a thick carpet, deadened any sound, adding to the tranquillity and pristine feel of the mountains.
It was at this time he suffered the devastating loss of his parents and he said heroin deadened his pain.
For the old and withered Nonna Rosa, he restores her youthful dewiness, awakening all the passion deadened by her long passionless marriage.
Our consciences and sensitivities have been deadened by too much drinking, he says.
His mind screamed at him not to, but his nerves were deadened, refusing to respond.
Based on its placement, I would bet that it has deadened the nerve, so that you would indeed feel no pain.
Between the water draining, the cool water pouring in, and her skin deadened from sensation, the pain started to become tolerable.
The microphone had a windscreen and extra foam that deadened the noise of raindrops falling on the microphone.
I push my deadened feet up, forcing them to move, my hands stuck by my side as I turn the corner into the lounge.
Both men understood that powerful aspects of their art were deadened by analysis.
Twenty years of blockbusters have deadened audiences to the excitement of big armies and lavish effects.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
There could be no doubt that ether, properly applied, rendered the subject wholly unconscious, deadened the pain of operation, and represented little risk to recovery.
Sadly, the supporting non-celebrity players deliver their lines in the same deadened monotone that passes for the industry standard in video game voice acting.
He believed Americans were obsessed with being entertained, which resulted in senseless addictions and deadened affects.
But by the time Debbie is gone, so is the audience emotion, deadened by all the threesomes and drug abuse.
Thus, the greater the space separating a person from the stiff elements of the cabin, the more the impact will be deadened.
He often uses the tones of the colour of the oxide and the deadened blues combining it with the greys creating an agreeable atmosphere at sight.
The powerful Nanni diesel, with conventional shaft drive, is located in a sound deadened engine box under the companionway.
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The sounds of the city were deadened here to a dull rumble, while the vibrancy of the autumn afternoon excited his taut nerves.
The light was so deadened by the lamp-shade that they did not perceive the complete transformation of his face.
Matt glazes are not underfired glazes nor are they deadened by acid or sand blast.
There was an exultation in Jon's heart that deadened the hunger and washed away the nausea.
In high lights it hued to dull silver-gray, in the shadows it deadened to utter black.
Early morning at Saltinville, with the tide down, and the calm sea shimmering like damasked and deadened silver in the sunshine.
He was speaking in a deadened voice which had yet a preternatural distinctness.
But now fatigue a little deadened him to that incessancy of life, it seemed now just an eternal circling.
The remorse which had embittered her married life was deadened now to a dull despair.
I asked in a deadened voice, taking the lighted lamp out of the binnacle, and raising it to his face.
People are stupefied and deadened by their absorption in breadwinning.
Suddenly the sound of the cannonade was deadened by a thunderous roar.
The deadened gallop of a horse on the bridle path caught his ear.
Since he had first seen Tarzan again from the wings of the theater there had been forming in his deadened brain the beginnings of a desire for revenge.
From a distance resounded, deadened, however, by good shutters, the songs of the tipplers, enjoying themselves in the cabarets scattered along the plain.
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