| These writers were suspicious of the enervating effects of modernity, and contrasted Australian virility with the dulled manhood of Europe. |
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| She handily demonstrated the difference between discomfort and enervating boredom. |
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| Walk through a shopping district or a fashionable neighbourhood in Delhi and the enervating sound of a dozen generators assaults your ears. |
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| We need to teach our children to delight in energetic activity, not enervating entertainment. |
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| The few that do realise that life can be different, less enervating, lament but rarely complain, grumble but never protest. |
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| It was a hot and sultry day, but towards evening there was a hint of a thundershower bringing some relief from the enervating heat. |
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| The unrelenting climate can have an enervating effect unless you are well prepared for the temperatures. |
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| That is certainly true of America today as it struggles to cope with economic stagnation, enervating foreign wars and waning self-confidence. |
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| Perhaps if we had no positional impulse, we'd find luxurious stretches of leisure time less intolerably enervating. |
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| Heat: The sometimes oppressive and enervating Middle Eastern heat is covered by an Event Card. |
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| I would most of all like to help all organizers by saving the hours of enervating work registering the runners. |
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| But the slog to November 6th has been dispiriting and enervating enough to put many of us in touch with our inner 4-year-old. |
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| The theme or main line of the script may suggest an overriding motif: enervating heat, ominous clamminess, dappled sunlight, penetrating northern light, a feeling of being in limbo or underwater. |
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| Every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch. |
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| Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. Yet the ennui that marked this second period had less to do with nostalgia than nausea. |
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| After a certain point, the pursuit of more wealth may be futile and morally enervating, especially if it burdens other people and future generations. |
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| Dwelling on one side of the Chauci and Chatti, the Cherusci long cherished, unassailed, an excessive and enervating love of peace. |
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