Did it never occur to you that this deafness and blindness to accustomed beauty and harmony is one of the saddest thoughts connected with the great change which awaits us?
Deafness is an unpardonable offence, my dear Pericles.
An exhibition of aching deafnesswas presented to her so resolutely, that at last she faltered, 'What!
Detection of slight deafness may lead to the discovery of serious defects of nose or throat.
He is very deaf, but has a wonderfully acute inner ear, which, being protected by his deafness from the ordinary sounds of life, will catch minute imperfections that are imperceptible to the person of ordinary hearing.
He went down to the bank and passed the check in to the paying teller, who handed it back to him with some remarks which in his deafnesshe did not hear.
The origin of Edison's deafness may be told in his own words: "My train was standing by the platform at Smith's Creek station.
I felt something snap inside my head, and my deafness started from that time and has ever since progressed.
As soon as it was clear that her deafness was a trial that would last as long as her life, she made a resolution with regard to it.
This she rightly regarded as the only way of preventing her deafness becoming as irksome and trying to her companions as it was to herself.
To Beethoven, who had once heard with the ear, his deafness made no difference, nor their blindness to Homer and Milton.
Verena's presence at the table was an excuse for their not talking, though her deafness would have permitted the freest interchange of confidences.
Charity had imagined that, in some way or other, she would learn whether Harney had already left; but Verena's deafness prevented her being a source of news, and no one came to the house who could bring enlightenment.
Cases of deafness arising from dryness and hardness in the ears are to be treated differently.
Deafness is caused in many ways--very often by exposure of the head to a chill, especially in infancy.
If the deafness proceed simply from a relaxed state of the tissues in the tubes of the ear, the cold douche applied to the head, with careful drying and rubbing afterwards, will often effect a cure.
As the result and accompaniment of deafness these are sometimes most distressing, even preventing the patient from sleeping.
I have had deafness in my right ear again for some days; no pain with it, but it is inconvenient.
He wants a strong Coercion Bill and an illusory Land Bill; but his party and personal loyalty make up for much obdurate deafnessto the Morley predications.
I have a continual noise in the left ear as if of a locomotive blowing off steam, and a deafness in the left ear which I had not before being wounded.
The deafness was absolute in each case, and in none had any improvement occurred at the end of nine months.
In all these instances it was impossible to attribute the deafness to lesion of the nerve alone, as the causative injury equally affected the internal ear, and in at least two the bullet implicated the tympanum as well in its course.
The man had hallucinations, and was very obstinate: there was complete deafness of the left ear.
Deafness was a symptom in a certain number of the more severe cerebral injuries in which the course of the bullet was not so near to the internal ear: probably some of these were central in origin.
The deafness was probably due to concussion of the internal ear.
In each case deafness was apparently the direct result of concussion of the ear on the side corresponding to the wound.
He was taken to Denver, and returned completely cured, not only of his inability to walk, but also of deafness that had troubled him for fifteen years.
He, who was formerly stone-deaf, had gone one day to see Schlatter at Omaha, and when the latter took his hand his deafness had completely disappeared.
Do you swear to accept deafnessfor better or for worse, as your portion of the world's miseries, so help you God?
No, deafness won't show at all, and you'll have 'em all crazy about you.
Deafness wouldn't show, so it couldn't spoil her face or her elegant figure.
Excuse me, Judge, but maybe the lady would like deafness in exchange for her wrinkles.
Dennison heard Zinc's words faintly: it would be hours before the tankdeafness wore off.
The roaring of the treads knocked the roof of his brain; he felt that the old deafness was returning.
When I told him that my catarrhal deafness was worse than ever, he replied: "Well, brother, console yourself with the thought that in these days there is very little worth hearing.
I am publishing this incident in the hope that it may lead to the construction of scientific apparatus for the cure of deafness in cases where the deafness is caused by trouble similar to that of the professor's wife.
The deafness of the latter sometimes led him to mark the wrong instrument in his scores.
But whilst deploring his great predecessor's deafness as the cause of certain defective instrumentation he renders unstinted homage to the general orchestration of the symphonies.
He was not sent on his work with any illusions as to its success, but, on the contrary, he had a clear premonition that its effect would be to deepen the spiritual deafness and blindness of the nation.
Blindness and deafnessare defects in perception, and stand for incapacities affecting the powers of knowledge.
Prompt and increasing attention to the little fellow's speech during the first year after deafness occurs will usually serve to fix correct habits for life.
If deafness is so great that spoken words are not heard at all, then the child will not learn to speak and to understand when spoken to unless specially taught.
In the case of the very slightly deaf child, this visual training is not quite so important as the auricular training, but when there is much deafness it is the more important of the two.
A much slighter degree of deafness will prevent the proper acquisition of speech and language than would in later life prevent the comprehension of conversation in a familiar language.
What are you to do with a deafness that cannot be aroused by the blast of a steam-engine, and which can sleep undisturbed by the thunder of railroads?
Let us add that his deafness rendered him to some extent dumb.
If his deafness did happen to betray him here and there, by some incoherent apostrophe or some unintelligible question, it passed for profundity with some, and for imbecility with others.
But, in the first place, we have already observed that Master Florian did not care to have his deafness noticed.
Hence he took great care to conceal his deafness from the eyes of all, and he generally succeeded so well that he had reached the point of deluding himself, which is, by the way, easier than is supposed.
Harry, who is a lad of a rather lively fancy, coming in while we were taking advantage of his great uncle's deafness to discuss the subject in his presence, proposed a pleasant expedient.
Spiritual blindness and deafness are specially seen in the relation of the people to the leadings of the Church, and to the promises of Scripture.
Now, it is blindness and deafness of every kind which, along with all other misery, shall find a remedy at the time of salvation.
Prevented by deafness from taking an active part in social intercourse, she yet found an opportunity to unstop the deaf ears of others and to open their blind eyes.
Feel bluer, but I believe my deafness is bringing me truer faith, and resignation.
Even herdeafness seemed specially to fit her for her work.
Being at an office, you have more interruptions; and then deafness has its reward, and one can pursue her work in peace many times, whereas another would be disturbed.
And especially after her deafness became a chastening hand laid upon her character, and family sorrows and bereavements followed in the train, it was plain that she found her religious trust the one thing needful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deafness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blindness; dogmatism; incomprehension; insensibility
