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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't want to watch it all the time just because it kind of deadens the mind.

CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2001 2001

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't want to watch it all the time, just because it kind of deadens the mind.

CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2001 2001

I agree that much in our world deadens imagination, but nothing Bleumle talked about seemed particularly NEW.

Don't call me "Baby." Roger Sutton 2009

If we're exposed to only what stimulates, it deadens the response.

Are You Reading Too Fast? 2009

Pusey connects this loss of spiritual perception — the common outcome of modern science — with the narrowing effects of specialisation, and quotes from Newman the observation that ` any one study … exclusively pursued, deadens in the mind the interest, nay the perception, of the other. '

Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

It also balances the bow and deadens the recoil somewhat.

I havent broke down and bought a stabilizer yet, do I really need one? 2009

In this case the novel attempts to show us "how it was" in the early Reagan era rather than posing as a sociological expose of present-day Kids In Crisis, but its status as an historical novel of sorts really only deadens its emotional effect.

Narrative Strategies 2009

LORD OF THE RINGS propounded an idea even more shocking to our modern age: that power, especially power over nature, industrial and scientific power, corrupts and deadens life.

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

If we're exposed to only what stimulates, it deadens the response.

February 2009 2009

It also balances the bow and deadens the recoil somewhat.

I havent broke down and bought a stabilizer yet, do I really need one? 2009