However, the meat of the novel is in the deadening impact on all the people involved.
The solution: removing deadening federal and state regulations on Medical Savings Accounts and enacting other free-market reforms.
Payroll, taxes, inventory, employee training--companies these days can hand all those detail-heavy, soul-deadening support chores over to someone else.
It still provides an antidote to the deadening commercialism of contemporary urban life.
Blocking D2 reduced dopamine levels and relieved hallucinations, but it also crippled a patient's muscles and produced deadening, zombie-like effects.
There have been concerns that because Amevive works by deadening the immune system, it might decrease patients' ability to fight infections.
Mr Solzhenitsyn is an old-fashioned, God-fearing romantic: anti-industrial, anti-materialist, anti-Enlightenment, and against what he sees as the deadening excesses of rationalism.
Artists have long used a variety of techniques to free themselves from the rote and therefore deadening habits that we all fall into.
FORBES: Making Room for the Unseen in Tackling Complex Problems
Now they're snorefully boring and cumulatively deadening because they owe no allegiance to the laws of physics, let alone to the dictates of effective drama.
WSJ: Movie Review: Knight and Day, Restrepo, Let It Rain | By Joe Morgenstern
At precisely the time when it is, in general, taking its deadening hands off finance, it has been doing the opposite in the lending business.
Toyota says it went to great lengths to cut vibrations and engine and wind noise by adding insulation in the floor and sound-deadening glass in the windshield.
But the Christmas cycle imposes a deadening routine and predictability.
WSJ: Christopher Hitchens on Forced Merriment, the True Spirit of Christmas
Eighteen years in the making, the 1961 resolution almost immediately backfired with, among other missteps, its endorsement of the deadening tower-in-a-plaza motif that resulted in wide and windswept public spaces avoided by pedestrians, still in dreadful evidence along the Avenue of the Americas.
Rebel yeller Phillip Phillips threw Tommy Hilfiger's recommendation to wear any color but gray out the window (into a gray and soul-deadening sky) and proceeded to wear two shades of gray for his cover of "Movin' Out" -- because to not wear gray would compromise Phillip Phillips' integrity.
CNN: 'American Idol' recap: We're all in the mood for a melody
应用推荐