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That can be an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing the characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament.
That's often an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing two characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament.
In the Bajaur tribal agency along the Afghan border and in the Swat Valley, it is locked in fierce and enervating operations against the Pakistan Taliban.

"It isn't so much the heat, but the 100 percent humidity that knocks us down everyday. It's very enervating, but we've all simply said we're not going to feel it anymore," said Newell.
on Dec 21, 2006 By: Mike Newell Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Flaubert complained that the exterior world was "disgusting, enervating, corruptive and brutalizing. ...... I am turning towards a kind of aesthetic mysticism" he wrote.
on Oct 30, 2008 By: Gustave Flaubert Source: Times Online