18 example sentences using deadening.
Deadening used in a sentence
Deadening in a sentence as a noun
I would just take issue with the idea that hard work of even the "deadening" type is not an important part of that process.
Sound-deadening floor and ceiling material helps a lot.
You just need isolation, though; deadening the rooms is not really necessary.
A lot like how car doors have sound deadening to give them a solid, satisfying thump, instead of a cheap, high frequency ring when you close them.
The old ultra 60s with the sound deadening kits fitted were impressively quiet, but all these antiques are bin fodder now.
It's all horribly brain-deadening, and the cognitive barrier to entry is extremely high.
This is very, very expensive if you're already spending 50 hours a week sitting at a computer pounding away at brain-deadening code.
It's the only way to smash through modernity's soul-deadening alienation.
Most descriptions of depression I have read sound like "the deadening of the true self" is what depression does, and any effective treatment would rather be the revival of the true self.
Deadening in a sentence as an adjective
I perceive the medication to be supporting what I'd generally call "masculine values" - it's good for deadening the emotions and producing things.
Short of using heavy sound deadening material, I'd imagine that reducing the noise in an aircraft means saving a lot of that previously noisy energy for useful work.
Their scores on the Hamilton depression scale, a standard used to measure the severity of depression, fell from the soul-deadening high 20's to the single digits — essentially normal.
Edit: even in the article at hand - halfway down the page, you'll find a sequence that is shot with everything dead center, because the moment calls for the static, deadening effect of that kind of composition.
Novels require descriptions, comics require painstaking drawings, films and television require either hours of expression deadening makeup or expensive CGI.
Is this all good, efficient, and respectful of human talent and creativity when the organization is small but soulless and deadening and even "Soviet-like" only when the corporation becomes large?
That factory is the result of a line of thinking that dates back to Henry Ford, which is: let's find exactly the price that we can pay people to get them doing monotonous, soul-deadening work for eight to sixteen hours a day without them walking out.
His theme is a clarion call to shape your life, and the way you make a living, around things you love to do and to avoid dying a slow death by simply doing a job that makes money - the point being that it makes no sense to pursue modest comforts at the cost of spending your life doing soul-deadening things you don't like doing just because they earn you a livelihood.
And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set abut it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are continually being thrust upon them.
Deadening definitions
the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
See also: stultification constipation impairment
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
See also: boring dull ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome