| The only way you could remain a communist, he said later, was by deadening your conscience, by inducing a moral narcosis. |
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| Once the initial thrills are over, the movie's bombastic swagger and dime-store gravitas become deadening. |
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| What is this if not a sinister project of deadening the senses, so that destruction of life goes on as naturally as life itself? |
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| This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway. |
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| There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine. |
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| The aggressive triviality of the campaign is having a deadening effect on the electorate. |
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| Wrought iron gates were placed here and there for elegance as well as function, and deadening ivy climbed part of the walls. |
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| The biggest complaint you hear these days from country folk is about the sheer, deadening weight of bureaucracy. |
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| I strongly recommend the book for anyone who thinks manners are boring, deadening constraints on their individuality. |
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| It has something to do with arrogance and materialism and the deadening effect of pop culture on the collective brainpan. |
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| Prior to that, cushions were stuffed with flax, cotton or other padded materials and the result was fairly deadening. |
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| He has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about the deadening effect on teaching of a society afraid to take risks. |
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| Over the years, his humanity has been submerged through a deadening routine. |
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| They are visually poisonous, depressing, environmentally undermining, life-shortening, spiritually deadening, brain-dulling piles of crud. |
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| If there is a criticism to be made, it is that the album is rather unrelenting in its pace, deadening the impact of the later songs. |
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| As Lester strongly points out, from simple lack of awareness we are deadening our senses by becoming tuned out. |
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| I settle for a Camembert baguette, a bolet of chilled cider deadening my tongue to the sock aftershock. |
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| Stale routine can be deadening and it appears to me that you are following a routine here lately, with business and other daily affairs. |
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| It's a deadening of the nerve cells of the nerve endings in the lower extremities. |
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| As an 18-year-old, I, with others, was determined to set my own country free from a deadening, authoritarian, backward regime. |
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| Tobacco has a deadening and stupefying effect upon the nerves. |
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| Then it flew back into my mind with hideous, deadening force. |
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| Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. |
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| He and his researchers have explored the archives and newspaper morgues with determination, so that the central events are told with an almost deadening thoroughness. |
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| This is not because I am particularly involved or interested in my job, but because the deadening routine is not conducive to creativity or insight. |
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| What had been deadening this country, I think, was not so mysterious. |
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| The deadening of a set of scales: this design arose from playing with dimension and size. |
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| Cynicism abounds, especially about the corrupt new order that has replaced the coercively deadening old one. |
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| His work with tractors, harvesters, milkers and the other machines that ease work on the modern farm is not soul-destroying or deadening. |
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| But there is something deadening about a society that insists on a certain uniformity of speech. |
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| This growing reality has spawned a strong demand for sound deadening products. |
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| Most panels used for sound deadening in cars and household appliances contain bitumen because it has good dampening characteristics. |
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| The airbags inflate in 30 thousandths of a second to supplement the action of the safety belt during the final phase of impact deadening. |
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| Lightweight aluminium with sound deadening rubber hood. Perfect for broadhead. |
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| Athough airless undercoating is primarily used in the automotive industry, it is also used industrially for sound deadening and rustproofing. |
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| Yes, many of those jobs are poorly paid and deadening, agreed and acknowledged. |
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| This resembles the deadening of the emotions paradoxically required for the exquisitely heightened sensate perception in the Marquis de Sade's novels. |
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| In all, 45 new sound deadening treatments were added. |
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| The test compares the sound deadening ability of Enermax against the performance of other commonly-used building products such as gypsum board and extruded polystyrene. |
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| All ceiling tiles offer various sound deadening values. |
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| A variation can be done if you try to freeze the pattern by deadening the incoming club on your right club instead of just hitting it, and then push it back to your partner. |
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| France is the biggest manufacturer of sound deadening panels in Europe and bitumen based panels are popular because they are easy to handle and can also be recycled. |
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| The film ended with the deadening realisation that problems can't be left behind at passport control, and that Britain is not a land of milk and honey. |
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| Can ceiling tiles and panels be effective sound deadening panels? |
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| Working conditions, including the deadening effect of repetitive production line tasks on the human spirit, take their toll in terms of physical and mental illness. |
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| With deadening pragmatism, the commission says liberalisation will improve quality and choice and reduce state subsidies. In this section Change is in the air An end to that blue screen of death? |
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| The third is the possibility of a Gorbachev figure emerging from within the clerical establishment to open up the deadening political and economic system. |
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