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Electronics have become less liable to explode.
The market becomes less cheerful.
Either way, the loan becomes less profitable.
Self-doubt, therefore, becomes less likely.
"It becomes less sensitive".
Somehow it becomes less forceful over time.
As a result, Brooks argues, we have become less empathetic, and more apt to regard our relationships with others in the light of useful expediency.
But even for those of us who keep on going, bogged down by fear and helplessness our writing is apt to sag - to become less inventive, less playful, less exuberant.
She points out that, "children have become less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less talkative and verbally expressive, less humorous, less imaginative, less unconventional, less lively and passionate, less perceptive, less apt to connect seemingly irrelevant things, less synthesizing, and less likely to see things from a different angle".
