To a stranger this deadening of sound felt oppressive.

That naked fact continued to form a void deep within, despite a gradual deadening of her pain.

The origin of the community's name is unknown and was also known as 'Lawrence Deadening'.

There was a slight deadening of all their senses, though their brain-centers remained alert.

After ten hours' walking I observed a singular deadening of the reflection of our lamps from the side walls.

But those feelings were smothered over by a glacial deadening of all emotion as the details of the situation came into clear focus for him.

The driveway was quiet, the pebbles were still and there was none of the faint deadening of sound that I associated with the other place.

"There's a tactile thing going on, but there's a quality of envelopment and quiet, a complete deadening of sound."

It was not to be long before the same truncation of aspiration, the same deadening of the imagination affected frontages too.

I removed the clamps so there would be no deadening of sensation and then repeated the light pricking again and again until she climaxed several more times.

Several moments passed without my noticing any visible effect beyond a slight deadening of his countenance, but I'd seen that face on him before, usually prior to the delivery of some trenchant remark.

She reexperienced with Callista the slow, inexorable deadening of normal physical responses, the numbing of bodily reflexes, the hardening of tensions in mind and body into a rigid armoring.

Among the disadvantages: temperament could not be re-set without bending the tangents; and playing required a further refinement of touch, since notes sharing a single string played in quick succession needed to be slightly separated to avoid a disagreeable deadening of the sound, potentially disturbing a legato line.

There are also Kabbalistic reasons for being strict concerning chalav yisrael; these are not based on the possibility of mixing non-kosher milk but on spiritual ramifications to drinking non-chalav yisrael which leads to "timtum ha-lev" a spiritual deadening of the heart.

For now, there is the deadening feeling of economic inactivity.

"It's a reaction to the deadening way language is used in media and by politicians."

Imagine America under a deadening repression of free speech and ideas.

But it is derailed by a deadening lack of focus.

This, he wrote, has a "deadening" effect on American advertising.

There was only one way to escape my deadening toil.

Cohen was not surprised but even so he felt the deadening weight of his own failure.

It took just enough weight to relieve the deadening strain upon his arms.

"When you sit in a room for four hours making calls, it kind of has a deadening effect on you."

The deadening pseudo-morality found in society should give us pause for thought.

And this created a deadening cycle for her campaign.

Yet she was frequently viewed in political terms, as a representative of her race - a deadening role for any artist.

What it would have produced is a deadening uniformity, particularly in the skyline.

Sometimes the deadening sensation of time made him feel safe, because thirty years is an eternity.

The killer's gigantic plunge had ended with a deadening impact.

These have a deadening effect, as does the prosaic language the verse often falls into.

Her words had a deadening finality, I glanced around our room and fell silent.

They were far off, but the sound, even though coming muffled through the deadening snowfall, was full of terror.

She was much calmer now, her breath steady, the deadening shock nearly gone.

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

Used more bluntly, however, these metaphors take on a deadening earnestness.

Rush hour is over, and there's another deadening lull.

I think that's because they recognize both the impossibility of fulfilling the role and the deadening effect it could have on the paper.

That's the deadening effect of 13 years of Tory rule for you!

Gently I eased free my deadening arm, drew open the bed curtains, and looked around the room.

Be sure not to use black, which will deaden the look.

It seemed also to deaden sound for I heard nothing.

Anything strong enough to deaden the pain of his hands might kill him.

They have to go back to 15 inches and deaden the ball.

I'm not yet in my cups enough to deaden the pain.

What the hell, he thought, might as well deaden whatever pain.

We will now give you some suggestions about what to do to deaden the sound coming from your computer.

She looked to be beyond suffering, her mind deadened to any further pain.

The second is whether this project will spur development or deaden it.

The reason why you want heroin at night is to deaden yourself to that.

Would I be better off tomorrow with a clear head or deadened senses?

Her legs and arms were so deadened they refused to move.

Life flowed back into the land, and the movement that had been deadened by thought started up again.

Somehow she'd thought it would be, with her emotions so deadened.

In a sense, it was as if a pitcher from the old days had deadened the live ball.

The noise from the kitchen was deadened by the closed door.

The cool sea would deaden the life in the egg!

They were like words beyond a thick wall that deadened only the meaning but not the sound.

Yet we must not deaden our feelings toward the horror.

"This is just to deaden the area to save you discomfort."

We have no antiseptic or anything to deaden the pain.

Such a brutal loss would forever deaden a man's heart.

He used licorice oil which would deaden the pain a bit.

There was a drug working upon him to deaden the pain of the probing.

Then her voice floated down, deadened by the weight of silence around them.