And that sickly-sweet music with birds chirping, water babbling, and the rush of wheat fields in the wind seemed brain numbing. |
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Outside, numbing blasts of icy air are hitting the trees and the frame house. |
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I was sitting around dwelling on how sad it is when it occurred to me that these small plane crashes happen with numbing frequency. |
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With numbing frequency, Pawlenty disingenuously noted that last year's biennial budget was about to rise by 14 percent. |
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Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis. |
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Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony. |
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Other treatments that work for some people are breathing oxygen through a mask or using a numbing medicine in the nose. |
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She used Ryan's jacket to cover her numbing feet, and, glancing at his seating position, she gave a loud sniff. |
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Becoming familiar with the pattern of the question paper helps overcome the numbing fear of examinations. |
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And so she bravely walked down 2nd Avenue, fighting the elements, the cold wind numbing her soft little fingers. |
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We found the bitter drink numbing to the lips and now understand why people compare it to dishwater. |
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The pain began in earnest a couple of days after the accident, when the numbing effects of adrenaline wore off. |
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The numbing effect of this is that we are at risk of becoming, as Manning once said, subjects in the kingdom of nothingness. |
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Violence and repression work to desensitize people, leaving only a numbing wish to forget what is happening all about them. |
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Nevertheless, she put one foot in front of the other numbing herself to the pain and commenced her trudge. |
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His soberness from the shower had faded away and the numbing cloud of alcohol had returned. |
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Despite the numbing cold, he was aware of intense pain as the brine bit into his wounds. |
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The bone-chilling cold cut through his sopping wet clothes, numbing the wounds in his shoulder and side. |
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Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again. |
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Fishing out her key, she inserted it in the lock, her movements jerky, the cold finally numbing her muscles. |
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A few minutes later, the bell rang, and instead of the feeling of freedom I usually felt at the end of the day, I felt cold, numbing horror. |
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At times you can smell the stink, hear the rats running in his shack, and feel the numbing cold. |
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The worse RBTV has to offer could not match the mind numbing stupidity of this caper. |
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I loved the feeling of the coldness in that moment, the wind chilling me, numbing my skin. |
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Lia washed her hands, the cold water numbing her fingertips. |
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In spite of the numbing silence of intellectuals of recent years, there are signs that the Arab world is beginning to break out of the vicious dead-end cycle. |
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The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm. |
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I suppressed the cold, numbing feeling that was forming in my abdomen. |
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There's a numbing sameness to life now, everything's kind of toned down. |
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Fashion is not my strong point and the brain numbing possibilities of the bluff and double bluff involved here are well beyond my analytical powers. |
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It also presented frank examinations of drug use, sadomasochism, and numbing despair. |
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On the basis of two recent interviews of numbing banality, that certainly appears to be his favoured course. |
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Apply a cream that contains witch hazel to the area or use a numbing ointment. |
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It works by blocking nerve endings and numbing the tissues in the mouth for a short period of time. |
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Those are the numbers, and numbers have a way of numbing us to the complexities that make up everyday life. |
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How peacefully she slumbered, wrapped in sleep's numbing embrace. |
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It is hard not to be moved when Americans talk about the anguish of losing their jobs, giving voice to the numbing statistics. |
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Governments rise and fall all over the world with numbing regularity, and some default on their debts, and life goes on. |
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A pain numbing medicine is put into the small of the back with a needle. |
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The sheer destructive force of nature demonstrated here is numbing. |
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The most widespread is the numbing of the human brain in the name of business. |
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Experience to date indicates that contact with this product has rarely produced skin sensations such as numbing, burning or tingling. |
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I felt my lungs fill up with water, I could feel the cold numbing my body. |
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As most of us know, alcohol has a numbing and therefore disinhibiting effect. |
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It triggers fear: of numbing cold, of constant fatigue because it is too risky to allow yourself to sleep in a frost. |
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One of them is the numbing effect of the binary simplicity of the old East-West order. |
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Among them, nearly 400 beetles that locals called nanisani, a term that refers to the tingling or numbing sensation in the mouth when the beetles and the birds are tasted. |
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The refugee stories are compelling at first, but horrific details are numbing. |
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They are so mind numbing that we almost lose sight of the individual lives that are behind those statistics. |
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In Western press accounts it is barely remembered at all, and so tends to be potted and repotted with a numbing regularity. |
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For the last three days I have been listening to recordings of oral interlocutions of such a numbing homogeneity as to leave your correspondent jaded in the extreme. |
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The complexities within that religious order, renowned for its scholars and loyalty to the pope, make for a numbing leitmotif. |
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Some of them even openly shed tears of disappointment at the numbing realisation that, for the second time in five days, they had finished a final with nothing more than a loser's medal. |
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And when the news of his death reached us from his mentor, colleague and friend, Professor Issa Shivji, a numbing sense of disbelief prevailed among us. |
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The bitter wind cut like a knife, freezing my fingers and numbing my circulation. |
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For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki. |
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Plutarch refers to this in his Symposiacs as numbing the nerves causing a heaviness in the limbs. |
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But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing. |
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While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations, citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting. |
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Sometimes, numbing animals' pain makes sense, too. |
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Therefore nothing can be completely effective in numbing once and for all, the memory and genius of those who, through the rumours they dream up and sow, express themselves, play to the gallery and gain fame. |
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He's been numbing, no less, and watching him in action, or sort of — he's a knuckleballer — you feel some of the game's lost silences falling around you. |
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The whirlwind of activity in the period leading up to the start had a sort of anaesthetic effect, numbing the sensations, but that is now wearing off. |
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It was the first to be finished in order to shield the station Although it has calmed down over the past few days, the wind is still cold and numbing when it hits your bare skin. |
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War may be noble but it is also numbing to the soul. |
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Trauma can also be transmitted intergenerationally from parents who are reliving their own experience, and dealing with pain by emotional numbing or shutting out reality. |
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The rally started earlier in balmy sunshine – a contrast to the numbing chill in Ferguson – in Crenshaw, a predominantly African American neighbourhood. |
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It detailed a representative government with enumerated social programs to remedy the numbing poverty of commoners through progressive tax measures. |
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Dr Khalaf said screening involved numbing the eyeball with drops, then touching it with the curved tip of a wand that measures pressure, much like a tyre gauge. |
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For Canadian artists in particular, though, labouring in the chilly isolation that is our institutional culture, rejection has a numbing air of officialness. |
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The water stays at a numbing 40 degrees, enough to make you wonder where your feet went after a couple of hours of wading, even in neoprene waders and extra thermal underwear. |
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Silberner also notes the psychic numbing caused by the A-bomb. |
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