anaesthetized

Corporate interests at every turn have systematically anaesthetized us for decades.

Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011

The foot injury, whatever it is, has caused pain, and it needed to be anaesthetized before his last match.

Murray's Time Is Now Simon Barnes 2011

It was almost as if the presence of the water had anaesthetized him, smothering his true character so that only the surface veneer of charm and moodiness remained.

Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World 2010

He was the kind of man that I would rather have declawed than date, and then leave him on a gurney, helpless and anaesthetized.

Smashed Idol Lucile Barker 2011

If you have too much going on in a room, you lose the magic and your eye becomes anaesthetized.

Terms of Adornment Jen Renzi 2011

It is as though the society itself has been anaesthetized.

Strangers at Home Geremie R. Barm 2010

Over the past two decades we have been anaesthetized by a huge dose of leadership that was not really leadership at all: politicians, ministers, talk show pundits and the like who were handpicked, ordained, elected, or appointed.

Barack One Year Later: Open Letter to Young America 2010

In the world of comedy, overt joke thieves are absolute, bottom-of-the-barrel scumbags, trumped only by genocidal dictators when it comes to deserving the un-anaesthetized removal of their own sphincters.

Edward Murray: This Joke-Thief Will Never Work in This Internet Again Edward Murray 2010

The King of Pop was effectively anaesthetized every night, while our profession was asleep at the wheel.

Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010

The King of Pop was effectively anaesthetized every night, while our profession was asleep at the wheel.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010