How To Use Numbing In A Sentence
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It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever.
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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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It's how they deal with the mind-numbing tedium of riding long distances, the games the mind starts to play as your reach the end of your physical and mental tether.
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It is injected in a simple procedure after the ear lobes have been frozen with a numbing gel.
Times, Sunday Times
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If there was no numbing and if the item was reasonably palatable, then they'd take another small bite and swallow.
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Broadcaster John Humphrys recently attacked shows like Big Brother for their ‘mind-numbing, witless vulgarity.’
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It was a nomadic yet static, spontaneous yet premeditated, engrossing yet mind-numbing existence with no end in sight No prize to be won.
ICED
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Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
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The number of devices, screen sizes, operating platforms, and support levels for small-screen browsing is mind-numbing.
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Lia washed her hands, the cold water numbing her fingertips.
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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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All I can say is that invigilations are mind-numbing work.
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One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.
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It was a numbing experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, xylophones, melodicas and stringless guitars.
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For the entire ride, those same questions whirled through his head with mind-numbing intensity.
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You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying.
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Even the shadows of its amazing columns have a numbingly huge quality.
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Lately, though, I've worked a mind-numbing job as a factory secretary in San Leandro: answering phones, making coffee, running the copier, and booking appointments.
Dick Be Gone
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It helps ‘break the tension’ over the whole horrible mind-numbing loss of life thing.
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By telling people about her accident, she personalizes the numbing figure of road accidents that happen every year.
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After two years of mind-numbing lessons in classical music, he finally realised the degree wasn't for him and decided to set up a recording studio with one of his mates.
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The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
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Cook's findings are presented in boringly linear sequence, fact following fact with mind-numbing monotony.
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Where short sentences would have been impactful and punchy, McNamee prefers lengthy, brain-numbing lines.
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One of these two clubs may survive for another year of this mind-numbing tedium, due in no small part to the failings of the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beautiful horses had gone and he was channel-surfing through the mind-numbing doldrums of mid-afternoon television.
MAN AND WIFE
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Janie had never shinnied down a drainpipe before, and halfway down the one outside her window she fell, numbing her left arm and side.
The Night Of the Solstice
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Hundreds of them had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk in the numbing midwinter cold.
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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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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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So, apart from the mind-numbing tedium of it all, what was wrong and what was the solution?
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To stick that rubber hose through your nose to look down your throat (only as far as the larynx) he uses a 1% solution of phenylephrine as a nasal numbing medicine.
Printing: Have Gastroesophageal Reflex (GERD) Don't Travel
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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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This last 9 months in the wilderness of soul-destroying job applications and mind-numbing temp jobs had worn me down.
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Still, even when it veers into the realm of Spinach TV — so good-for-you that it feels more dutiful than good — OWN is by and large a refreshing respite from the wearying, soul-numbing cable norm, which often exploits and celebrates our worst behaviors.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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CoffeeGeek: what you'd expect, a nanopublishing venture slavishly devoted to discussing the minutae of the bean in mind-numbing, exuberant detail.
Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
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Elder, 52, saved a man, his small sister and his fiancee from the Sandy's deep and numbing snowmelt-fed water about 2 p.m.
Fly Caster Catches Three Would-Be Drowning Victims
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He preferred the airless quiet of the tunnel to the numbing of his skull.
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What I heard was a seemingly endless string of mind-numbing platitudes.
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She keeps talking, and talking until your eyes dim and you start to drool from the mind-numbing nonsense that fall from her mouth.
Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today
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I think if anyone tried to make a comic about the first two years of med school, the comic strip would spontaneously combust due to the mind-numbing boringness of the subject matter.
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Aurora felt the opium haze enfold her -- lifting, freeing, numbing.
PAINT THE WIND
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The susceptible and energetic mind, fortunately for its possessor, is endowed with an elastic power, that enables it to rise again from the benumbing effects of those adverse strokes of fortune to which it is but too vulnerable.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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So - droll sung/spoken vox, chirruping synth loop, mind-numbing repetition - it carbon copies " Once in a Lifetime ".
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After the numbing shock comes the denial of reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plodding around in evil weather in the dark can be very mind numbing, I assure you.
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Even hours into the numbing routine—dip, scoop, dip—he would add that little flourish, time after time, as he transferred the globule from one bath to another.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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Sing, Talk, Hum, times tables – thats usually brain numbing lol – try doing stupidly big numbers lol
Winding down (or why my brain needs an off button.) «
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Go to their concerts today and the sensation is not so much one of shock as mind-numbing tedium.
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Given the complexity and range of the details announced this allows ample scope for huge newspaper supplements and hours of mind-numbing TV.
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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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So people eventually came in and the day developed into the same mind-numbing tedium that I've come to expect.
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That’s the first point I want to get across: that if the distances involved in interplanetary travel are enormous, and the travel times fit to rival the first Australian settlers, then the distances and times involved in interstellar travel are mind-numbing.
Grudging admission « Love | Peace | Ohana
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After hours of mind-numbing driving on roads that threaten to separate your vehicle into its component parts and spread them over 300 kilometres of bulldust, you arrive at Australia's most remote roadhouse just before sundown.
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Using the spilled sauce, he calligraphed the words ‘Ma La’ (numbing hot) with his finger.
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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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There's simply no way around the system: it's pedantic, laboured and mind-numbingly frustrating.
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The cynicism, or boredom or maybe numbing hope that it was all going to be over soon - that we'd see the tyrant of Iraq in a coffin.
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today
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This literal difference in duration does not detract from a work's capacity to induce hypnotic, mind-numbing, humorous or even claustrophobic effects.
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After the numbing shock comes the denial of reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm not sure if the movie meant for this set-up to lead into hilarity or mind-numbing tedium.
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Unlike today, patients didn't receive a pain-numbing injection before they had their teeth drilled.
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The mind-numbing assembly line job took its toll by midday.
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It's consistency and taste changed with the month, but the spicy bite and numbing effects were the same.
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It was a nomadic yet static, spontaneous yet premeditated, engrossing yet mind-numbing existence with no end in sight No prize to be won.
ICED
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Aurora felt the opium haze enfold her -- lifting, freeing, numbing.
PAINT THE WIND
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This is a film so badly made it manages to be as mind-numbingly boring as it is insensitive.
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- Health Canada suggest avoiding creams or lotions that may hold heat inside the skin or may contain numbing medication (such as benzocaine or lidocaine).
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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
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Downers? How could there be downers? But maybe the clichéd plot, the tedium, the mind-numbing sameyness about the whole game could be considered a downer.
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This may sound unduly harsh, but most attempts at clarifying organizational values produce numbingly similar results.
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It has been a hard slog to the top, making my way through mind-numbing local radio interviews and writing for nothing; never did I imagine that I would hit such exalted heights.
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This was an example of what I (with brain numbing regularity) term a "least worst" option.
Snoop Elsewhere Mate
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And talk about a numbing curse: a fruitless, soulless loop of activity that grows more meaningless with each passing cycle.
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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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I felt my lungs fill up with water, I could feel the cold numbing my body.
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There's a numbing sameness to life now, everything's kind of toned down.
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Bubbling synthesizer, jerky, soulfully 'sincere' vocal, tappity-tappity hi-hat rhythm — quietly tasteful, it ends up numbingly soporific.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of these two clubs may survive for another year of this mind-numbing tedium, due in no small part to the failings of the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frazer writes, "Here is what the last scene in the film meant, he explained, his four - or five-word declamation a stark and numbing negation of the gentle, almost languid spirit of the film, which invites the audience to its own discovery.
Undefined
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Hours later, in the cold winds of winter, Yeltsik and Victor stood by the unburied soldier, the wind whipping their ears about, stinging their face, numbing their cheeks, fingers, and toes.
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The worse RBTV has to offer could not match the mind numbing stupidity of this caper.
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By telling people about her accident, she personalizes the numbing figure of road accidents that happen every year.
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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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The rhythms were never more than stolid and often numbingly predictable.
Times, Sunday Times
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A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world, numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool.
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Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, xylophones, melodicas and stringless guitars.
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Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust.
James Cameron, Avatar Aeolist « Anglican Samizdat
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The gunshot wound, the mind-numbing headache, the pain - everything drained away in a sudden adrenaline rush of undiluted happiness and relief.
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The dreams had a numbing sameness, differing only in detail.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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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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Right now, it's a struggle to disrupt the numbing media chatter about miscalculations and mistakes - to insist on acknowledgment of moral culpability.
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This is for keeps-no celluloid "retakes" unless one considers the numbing rote of close order drill.
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The sparse dialogue is as mind-numbingly declamatory and unsubtle as political oratory or operatic aria.
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Margie and I stared, unsure whether she had just said something breathtakingly incisive or mind-numbingly literal-minded.
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Elsewhere, textures were thick and unvaried, the vibrato was numbing, the tuning blowsy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paradoxically, this show is both mind-numbingly sombre and utterly superficial.
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This may sound unduly harsh, but most attempts at clarifying organizational values produce numbingly similar results.
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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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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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Banish toe-numbing cabin temperatures with a silk noil blanket from DreamSack, complete with built-in pocket for your feet.
Tip Sheet
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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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The recipe is mind-numbingly simple: shots of pretty landscapes set to classical music.
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It seemed to be numbing the pain, at least temporarily.
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And so the court's costs have continued to add up, day after mind-numbing day.
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I was silent for an interval as the disappointment tingled through me, settling in my extremities with a numbing cold.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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Because the intent behind the sex is clinical, the steady stream of graphic episodes in the novel becomes numbing, unsexy and, well, clinical.
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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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As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. J.K. Rowling
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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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I find it mazing that two Senators from two of the most liberal states are so mind-numbingly centrist. mq Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Team Obama
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Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork.
» Heinlein on national health care: TANSTAAFL heinleinblog
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He is, instead, a complete fraud - a blowhard as devoid of principle as the iconic strawmen he sets up and knocks down with mind-numbing regularity.
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They a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
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In school this is where teachers dragged out a boring five-paragraph essay by adding in tedious research, and mind-numbing outlines, before letting you just hammer out the rough draft like you wanted to do in the first place.
The Basics: Prep Work « Write Anything
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The mind-numbing natural disaster which has killed thousands and blighted the lives of millions in South Asia will not fade from our consciousness for some time yet.
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Too much routine can be mind-numbing, just as too much spontaneity can be disorientating.
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In the sixteenth century, Sao Tome and Principe was the world's largest producer of sugar; now the little that is grown is turned into mind-numbing aguardiente.
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Adult novella, a hugely distended tale within the network of tales that makes up the book, 90 pages long, as benumbing for an adult to read as almost any story written for the Young Adult market, whose products are about as close to genuine fiction as megachurches are to monasteries where silence is observed.
Scientifiction
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Some peppers a mild, fresh flavor . But others burn your and leave a lingering , numbing kick.
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Annoying, insecure, arrogant, stupid - insert your adjective - people are an unfortunate and often numbingly awful fact of life.
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Aurora felt the opium haze enfold her -- lifting, freeing, numbing.
PAINT THE WIND
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The iron handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs.
Les Miserables
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Ray wanted to explain that a quick nip after breakfast and before lunch made the mind-numbing labor of sticking letters in their appropriate boxes go by a little smoother.
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Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
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The recipe is mind-numbingly simple: shots of pretty landscapes set to classical music.
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Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
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If there was no numbing and if the item was reasonably palatable, then they'd take another small bite and swallow.
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It was a numbing experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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These magazines are good for a laugh but they get really really tedious and brain-numbing.
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It was a numbing experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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To single out Moore in an age of mind-numbing folksiness in politics is disingenuous.
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So people eventually came in and the day developed into the same mind-numbing tedium that I've come to expect.
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The inappropriate and mindnumbingly catchy 'bounciness' of the underlying rhythm?
Word Magazine - Comments
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Watching a man make noises into a mic (aka beatbox) for an hour is possibly one of the most soul-destroying and mind-numbingly things you could ever do.
Virtual Festivals
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Is there a thinking man or woman alive in Europe who is not depressed by the prospect of spending yet more years of bad-tempered debate on such mind-numbing details?
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The vatic ferocity of it all seems numbing and alien.
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I'd just taught Cormack McCarthy's THE ROAD, which was well written but mindnumbingly depressing, and I wondered (since EARTHBOUND had a similar opening situation) whether I could make my book work without it being so psychologically painful.
Grand Master Joe Haldeman tells all (or some, anyway) to Sci Fi Bookshelf
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How peacefully she slumbered, wrapped in sleep's numbing embrace.
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However, in the context of commonplace and mind-numbing attacks on communism, his novel is freshly revisionist.
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Through the manipulation of language, the forces of death have proven extraordinarily successful in numbing the moral sensitivities of many to the horrors actually taking place.
Pope John Paul II
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Half-term was mind-numbingly unproductive in terms of writing, perhaps because I'm still shagged out after the house move.
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At first my heart sank: I thought we were going to be in for the kind of numbing literalness that often accompanies physicalised literary adaptations.
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They a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
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Six or seven years later, as a young actor down to his last roll-up, I heard of an agency that offered unskilled, mind-numbing work to unemployed thesps.
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My GERD went away because an ENT doctor applies a topical nasal decongestant (phenylephrine) and numbing medicine to the lining of the nose prior to an endoscopy procedure.
The Truth About GERD
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Even so, Godard's barrage of images, sound bites, allusions and pensées remains invigorating rather than numbing, compelling us not only to look but to see and to hear.
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Report Abuse reading the above tells me that amercia is stupid and don't know the real facts. they must park themself in front of fox news 24/7 it called numbing of the brain. that if they have a brain left.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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By means of these simple packs followed by cold ablutions, the temperature of the patient can be kept at any point desired without the use of poisonous antifever medicines, serums and antitoxins which lower the temperature by benumbing and paralyzing heart action, respiration, the red and white blood corpuscles, and thus generally lowering the vital activities of the organism.
Nature Cure
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Last night's news had the annual insert on how the recent bone-numbing cold has been affecting the street kids and homeless in our cities.
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The benumbing influence of antiquity -- or rather of that extended period which may be called the Aristotelian age, the age in which all philosophic thought was utterly benumbed by the Greek literature -- has not yet passed away.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
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He preferred the airless quiet of the tunnel to the numbing of his skull.
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YET ANOTHER endless, mind-numbing forty-seven page long blurb from victoria, who day in and day out thinks her uppity, doctorly opinions are welcome, relavant, superior, not coma-inducing...
"Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."
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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 trouble was that doctors regarded this treatment as numbingly tedious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He can, according to those who know him, witter on about pretty much anything, and at ear-numbing length.
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Portraying the flinty faces of science - daunting complexity twinned with numbing wonder - demands both craft and art.
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Or, are these twelve-stepping starlets an out-picturing of a culture that is in pain and doesn't know any way out of it other than by numbing it?
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From over at Wonkette, we have a mind-numbing, alleged online chat session with the Bush bimboes, Barbara (the underage-drinking one) and Jenna (the binge-drinking one), in which the twins do their best to channel Mr. Spock, or perhaps Constable Benton Fraser from the Canadian TV series Due South:
Canadian Cynic
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Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
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After numbing gel is placed on the nose a small tube will be guided down the nose and into the jejunum (small bowel) using fluoroscopic (x-ray) guidance.
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The way Strug fought off numbing pain in her left ankle after a fall on her second-to-last vault.
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You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying.
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Well excuse me for interrupting your precious mind-numbing serial with actual news!
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I suppressed the cold, numbing feeling that was forming in my abdomen.
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The richness of the natural diversity that surrounds us is mind-numbing, so vast is its variation and uniqueness.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Especially on the old machines, the mostly mechanical ones without all the fancy electronics and mind-numbing sound.
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_ Certain poisonous drugs may prove effective to suppress certain symptoms by benumbing the nerves and preventing pain; they may, and do counteract the natural process by which nature exercises her power in various ways in the spontaneous effort to throw off disease, in the form of inflammations, fevers or pains; _but they can never heal, or eradicate disease_.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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After the numbing shock comes the denial of reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The concepts that Dick presents are absolutely mind numbing, many having their roots in Gnostic principles.
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What’s even more mind-numbing is the writer continues to reference similarly enlightening articles from Men’s Health, including one laugh riot titled “The 50 Things She Wishes You Knew About Her.”
Menfolk and their evil ways « Lab Kat
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The sheer, mind-numbing, senseless, stupid waste of life leaves the audience shocked by this evocation of life and death in the Great War.
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Yet the unionists still cannot come to the party, and with mind-numbing dumbness some parts of the media and the political establishment seek to provide them with alibis for their abject failure.
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The fogs were the worst in at least fifty years, but temperatures were significantly higher than normal, generally in the 30–40 Fahrenheit degree range during the day, 30 degrees warmer than during the numbing winter of 1947.
Daring Young Men
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The helicopter shuddered and roared and we were off at a mind-numbing forty-five degree angle, nose down, the earth hanging all atilt before us, our hearts in our throats and our stomachs still on the ground.
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He looks remarkably cheerful for what must be a mind-numbingly boring job.
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I can tell you I've gotten into some real scraps in interstate buses to get them to turn off the mind-numbing all-night videos.
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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Could be mind-freezingly, butt-numbingly boring, but I doubt that.
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Lack of sleep as much as anything overcame me with numbing fatigue.
BETTER THAN THIS
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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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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with
Redgauntlet
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When she returned perhaps their lives would readjust themselves -- but for the moment he longed for some kind of benumbing influence, something that should give relief to the dull daily ache of feeling her so near and yet so inaccessible.
The Custom of the Country
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The initials of businesses speed through an alphabet soup at mind-numbing speed.
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The sheer destructive force of nature demonstrated here is numbing.
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It was mind-numbing stuff but it gave us the basic grounding in rugby skills.
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After one mind-numbingly boring semester of studying electronic engineering, I landed a job as junior sales assistant in a retail franchise.
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All I know is that the wound has to be cleaned out and bandaged to stop infection or whatever, but as for stitches and numbing whatchamacallits, I'm about as clueless as the next person.
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The addition of the Sichuan peppercorn, known as ‘huajiao’, in many dishes creates a most sudden numbing sensation in one's mouth.
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We usually put numbing cream on the skin, so your chid will not feel pain.
Implantable Venous Port
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However, the two are woefully miscast, the script is terrible, and the result is a mind-numbingly boring mess.
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Anymore though, the Sunday morning t.v. dead-head, mind-numbing line-up, seems to present me with only a choice between caricatures and cartoons.
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