The duties of a sick-room are so horribly anxious, yet so deadening in their repetition of ignoble details.
The last spring rain was over; the dry, deadening California summer had begun its advance on the land.
Added to all this is the deadening monotony of the daily round of toil with no variation, no release from the fixed hours, no inducement to do one's best, no chance of getting any extra pay unless by occasional overtime.
The usual reply of the idealist is to draw a comparison between handicrafts and automatic machinery, dwelling on the skill and interest and beauty of the one and the deadening monotony of the other.
And soon the bleak years of monotonous grub and deadeningtoil were being forgotten in rough merriment.
And of all deadening labors, that of the Northland trail is the worst.
We are bound to give full weight to this, however much we rightly deplore thedeadening effect of monotonous and mechanical toil on so large a part of the population.
Against this gradual deadening of active individuality, the result of a perverted study of the classics, we find now reacting the education of enlightenment, which we generally call the philanthropic.
What can be more deadening to the spirit, more foreign to religion, than the morning and evening prayers as they are carried on at Oxford and Cambridge with machine-like regularity!
A thin fog hung over the West End, deadening the sound of traffic, and dimming the polish of the tall plate-glass windows.
A cold breath seemed to blow upon the little silken hair-tendrils at the nape of her white neck, spreading a creeping, stiffening horror through her body, deadening sensation, paralysing every limb.
But the privacy of his closet obtained, the mighty will gave way, and the stormy waves rolled over him, deadening every sense and thought and feeling, save the one absorbing truth, that he had never been beloved.
One after another those paralyzing seizures which had been like deadening blows on the naked heart seemed to repeat themselves, as real as at the moment of their occurrence.
The seven months in the desert were months of waiting--monotonous, deadening waiting.
The desert life was so deadening that any kind of a change would have been welcome.
Even then he had felt the deadening effect of its listlessness, and had had to turn away lest it should compel him to feel that he was but talking to the winds, or into a desert where dwelt no voice of human response.
As her eyes met Will’s, and that wave of fire ran resistlessly through her, she was conscious of a weird sense she had never felt before, a sudden failure of sound, a numb deadening of the music.
As her eyes met Will’s, and that wave of fire ran resistlessly through her, she was conscious of a weird sense she had known but once in all her life before—a sudden failure of sound, a numb deadening of the orchestra.
The Japanese habit of looking at a landscape upside down between their legs is a way of seeing without the deadening influence of touch associations.
A conventional life is not the only wholesome form of existence, and is certainly a most unwholesome and deadening form to the artist; and neither is a dissipated life the only unconventional one open to him.
Strange to say, there are people who extol this deadening method of centralized production as the proudest achievement of our age.
In order to attain their lofty aim, the mystics require an utter deadening of all human affections and all natural impulses, and a thorough change of their usual thoughts and feelings.
In return for this complete deadening of human affections they are filled with an ineffable love of the divine Saviour, the Bridegroom, and the Holy Virgin, the Bride, or even of purely abstract, impalpable beings.
Men strove, indeadening their bodies, to seek the salvation of their souls.
The slangy babble of Old Bill thrust itself upon him; the roar of the race course was in his ears, deadening his senses; not a sane, relevant word rose to his lips.
Now Crane's questions, more material than the first deadeningeffects of Alan's accusation, started her mind on a train of thought dealing with motive possibilities.
Paying no attention to Carrington's blows, he shot in several short, terrific, deadening uppercuts that landed fairly on the big man's chin.
For while they had been lost in the smother of dust, Taylor had landed a deadening uppercut on the big man's chin.
This time Taylor met him with a smother of sharp, deadening uppercuts that threw the man backward, his mouth open, his eyes closed.
It seemed to Carrington that the man was endowed with a savage strength entirely out of proportion to his stature, and that he was able to start terrific, deadening blows from any angle.
With the spring the affairs on the farm took up Ishmael's interest more and more, and he was able to find solace for the deadening knowledge of his mistaken marriage in the things that lay so near his heart.
Ishmael was not the only one who felt a deadening of the spirit that night, and even on awakening the following morning.
Madelene," Ebenezer began in a deadening voice, "you know me well enough not to play with me like this.
She had come into his life suddenly as a large part of it, that deadening financial part that tied him hand and foot and made him feel like a galley slave.
The deadening monotony of the jail routine grows unbearable.
From cell to shop and back again, always under the stern eyes of the guards, their days drag in deadening toil.
Her school is a place of life, eager, yearning, pulsating life, and not a place of dead and deadening silence.
She caught her breath, then little by little again the motherly warmth stole up into her breast deadening for the moment the pain of her jealousy.
Then picking up the lamp he placed it under the table, thus deadening its glow.
He and she together, Hermione and Birkin, were people of the same old tradition, the same withereddeadening culture.
She was rarely alone, he pressed upon her like a frost, deadening her.
