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deadening
«Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears»
Author: Louis MacNeice
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«Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.»
Author: Roger Kahn
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afternoons, climax, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, heaped, leisurely, onlooker, responses, Summer and, track, unchanging
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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«That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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anaesthetic, attention, bit, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, filthy, invisibility, magic, trick
«The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering»