She called the finding "really amazing," adding in a videotaped statement (above) that "in the context of today's society, which is a highly medicated society, where lots of people are taking psychoactive drugs that might blunt their experience of negative affect, our results would suggest that that will also blunt helping".
Women have higher mortality than men after developing acute myocardial infarction [ 16], respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation [ 17] and nosocomial infections [ 18], while male patients with blunt trauma experience a higher risk of death than females [ 19].
The Bugatti is refined to a fault, and although its four-figure horsepower can distort a driver's eyeballs under full-throttle, the car wraps its heroic feats in satin, blunting the experience a touch.
They are billed as a way to manage traffic, but they could also hamstring the user's experience, blunt competition online and stymie innovation on the Internet.
This is not the case for human brains, which take hits in specific areas and experience blunt trauma.
Repeated use also left many needles blunt, making the experience very painful," he said.
The rest of us can listen, too, with the hope, however blunted by recent experience, that art can offer a perspective upon the unprecedented performance — a bastard combination of opéra bouffe, horror movie, and Shakespearean tragedy — that is being played out daily on the national stage.
All Stone narratives feature different kinds of people in leading roles — in fact there is unusual variety among his characters — but somewhere will almost always be included a man whose idealism has been blunted by bitter experience, who fronts an articulate cynicism beneath which flows a deep current of anger, and whose vestiges of authentic hope are carefully concealed.
Nor has time or experience blunted the knife-edge of their desire.
So, here's a list of six pretty good advice nuggets to those embarking on their professional journeys -- a mix of my best interpretations of my favorite Norman-isms, together with my own blunt advice from experiences accrued along the way.
