There is a distrust of the future, a questioning of what is passed off as progress that can be spiritually deadening, even though it may be tactically astute.
Buildings that wall themselves in are deadening the life of cities Blank Wall is on its way to becoming the dominant feature of many United States downtowns," complains.
But for a long time the iconic Canto-pop star saw his job in the same way most of us see ours: as a soul-deadening grind.
Popular Great America roller coaster Gold Striker back in action after retrofit In Santa Clara, Great America officials announced Wednesday afternoon that the popular Gold Striker roller coaster is back in action after a sound-deadening tunnel was completed to keep it in line with noise restrictions.
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Michelle Malkin in San Diego Union Tribune Pointing out that the rapper Mims uses "ho" and worse epithets in his chart-topping song "This Is Why I'm Hot," columnist Michelle Malkin asked: "What kind of relief do we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage?"
David Niven in Times Online Niven recalled: "I had some bizarre illness. I had to have sex. I think it was my only way of deadening the pain. That and getting drunk, but I preferred sex." "It was a dying man's confession."
Jawaharlal Nehru in New Scientist (subscription) IN 1960 Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, wrote: "It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast...