Word: numbingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, enabling it to maintain its hold on the audience's malleable attention. Since the performance does not start until all the ticket-holders arrive, the audience is ushered into a solitary room--shocked into submission. Captives in the basement, the cast monopolizes attention. At the end, we are numb--shaken from the intrusion into protective shells. And saying we enjoyed the performance would be an insult to the production, since its message only affirms the vulnerability of our affections...
...that works with breweries around the world: "Lighter beer was a marketing decision when American brewers wanted to enlarge the market by making a beer you could drink a lot of. With German beers, you can't drink so much or the bitterness will make your mouth go numb...
...same job, they make an average of $3,000 a year less than their male colleagues. More than a third of all candidates for M.B.A. degrees are women: the numbers encourage. Only 5% of the executives in the top 50 American companies are women: the numbers numb. Where once, even recently, there was nothing, all those statistics and all their corollaries now show there has been something: some progress forged for women over the past decade of challenge and confusion. Perhaps those numbers are really a crude scale for a new geography, exploring the wide gulf between something and satisfaction...
...hand, the public has been so saturated with the pornography of violence and infernal visions of the underclass that there may be little disbelief left. Breslin plays to this possibility with a stylistic naturalism that renders his characters as bundles of nerve endings and flurries of reflexes. They eventually numb moral response. When, for example, a man is dis membered with a chain saw, it does not seem to be an illustration of bestiality but a demonstration of the state...
...mother figure. An evidently barren woman who has inexplicably taken Lebanon as her own country, her sole desire is to adopt a native child. Yet she evokes no more sympathy exudes no more warmth than Laschen. In fact, while Laschen becomes increasingly anesthetized by the violence she remains consistently numb...