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Never has there been a religion more depressing, more hopeless, more deadening to all initiative.

And in a few minutes Paul heard his father's heavy steps go thudding over the deadening snow.

SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

Missionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.

Nothing is more deadening and more commonplace than this peculiar form of wit, when it becomes a habit or offers itself in a mass.

Night and the March moon awake the winter-dormant wilderness from the white man's deadening spell.

THE FIRING LINEROBERT W. CHAMBERS

No doubt they had been present at many similar scenes, and custom is a deadening factor.

Unyielding obstinacy in discussion is deadening to conversation, and yet the extreme contrary is crippling.

CONVERSATIONMARY GREER CONKLIN

Conversation at its highest is the most delightful of intellectual stimulants; at its lowest the most deadening to intellect.

CONVERSATIONMARY GREER CONKLIN

The climate is monotonous and deadening, rather than enlivening.

Novel-reading is a considerable factor in flattening and deadening the mind.

A WORD TO WOMENMRS. C. E. HUMPHRY

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OCTOBER 26, 1985