Fructose can blunt feelings of satiety and thus may foster overconsumption of calories.
Melody can very efficiently relay blunt feelings — the simplest example being a song written in a major key (happy) versus a minor key (sad) — but a raw vocal track almost inevitably contains multitudes.
However, there is also research evidence that relatively subtle interventions and efforts in classrooms may be effective at blunting feelings of exclusion and promoting student learning (Cohen et al., 2006; Miyake et al., 2010; Haak et al., 2011; Walton et al., 2013).
Opener Normal American Kids is blunt about feeling socially awkward as a child ("I always hated those normal American kids") and the grouchiness barely lets up throughout, which makes the carefree young love evoked by We Aren't the World Safety Girll) all the more touching.
I knew, intellectually, that the Serbian people had suffered as well -- at the hands of opposing armies as well as at the hands of their own government -- but that did little to blunt my feelings.
The implication is also that the power of the communal media image blunts individual feeling.
When you are experiencing burnout your emotions are blunted and feeling anything is tricky as you have numbed yourself - either by spacing out or retreating in.
On the subject of London, Blunt's feelings are apocalyptic, stating, "Before the Olympics, we were leading up to Armageddon and after the Olympics the world ended...The riots happened – that was a battle.
"Jackson was careful to avoid being too blunt about his feelings toward the Microsoft case," Ms. Schmauch wrote, "since it is still pending before an appellate court".
