Participants recognized a strengthened body and spirit following several months of physical and emotional deadening.
Critics argued that the official ceremonies were intellectually deadening and that official intrusion into salons damaged their ability to create enlightened public opinion.
He felt the imposition of geometric ordering schemes as a deadening force, oppressing other kinds of ordering such as might arise from use or context.
But the tenderness of humour survives even this deadening interruption of the old relationship.
For him, geometric ordering systems were a deadening force.
Stanislavsky was well aware that the inexperienced actor was prone to a deadening self-consciousness that inhibited 'delicate shadings of feeling or the spiritual life of your part'.
Every time we discussed control and decontrol we heard talk of the deadening effects of rent restriction.
The deadening pseudo-morality found in society should give us pause for thought.
