Voorbeelden van deadening

• 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.