We are becoming emotionally deadened by the horrors that we witness and have come to accept violence as normal.
A palliative deadens pain and hides the real trouble which is not therefore cured.
It is better to be carried away by enthusiasm than deadened by apathy and deadened by predetermined decisions.
The whole thing deadens debate and reduces it to the level of commonplace interjections upon masters of high public importance.
The perpetual treadmill of austerity forced on people who are hungry for something which is surplus in the world, will deaden all men's efforts.
It has attempted to deaden the fire by grouting.
Applied as a plaster, it deadened pain.
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'.
