lobotomizes

Tradition, momentum, and blind obedience to authority -- governmental, religious, institutional -- lobotomizes the body politic, leaving it with an unthinking automaton to bully us with ideas that may be entirely remote from us in time, culture, geography, and circumstances.

Steve Hindes: Think For Yourself: Sex and The Frankenstein Effect 2008

I know that Cheney is bigger fish, but Rove being indicted brings Bush down another Peg and also lobotomizes Bush.

Firedoglake » Dodging CIPA Graymail Bullets…And Other Legal Notes 2006

By contrast, merely methodological excision from the soul of the imagination that projects Cods and heroes onto the wall of the cave does not promote knowledge of the soul; it only lobotomizes it, cripples its powers.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

By contrast, merely methodological excision from the soul of the imagination that projects Cods and heroes onto the wall of the cave does not promote knowledge of the soul; it only lobotomizes it, cripples its powers.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

While McCarthy manages to retain the classic elements of the character, he's done so in a way that feels like nothing else on the stands, and drives a spike of luminous, brain-bending magic straight through the skull of the usual superhero book and lobotomizes all the things that often make it boring.

ComicsAlliance.com 2010

"The camera lobotomizes people," Stephen Colbert told me a few years ago during an interview.

CJR 2009

"The camera lobotomizes people," Stephen Colbert told me a few years ago during an interview.

CJR 2009

"The camera lobotomizes people," Stephen Colbert told me a few years ago during an interview.

CJR 2009

Hour News lobotomizes our country one "special report" at a time.

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