The healthiest buildings and interiors, according to ancient Chinese principles of feng shui, are those that have no clutter, because clutter, which is complexity by another name, deadens the energy in a house.It does the same to the human mind.
Though the challenge of the mile-high soufflé remains unmet, it seems there's an entire science dedicated to airline food:Most meals must be prepared beforehand and then reheated, and the altitude - cabins are typically pressurised to 8,000ft - deadens the tastebuds.
Though the lines are not as long as the Academy may have hoped, any time spent queuing for the apocalypse somewhat deadens its impact.The show's sub-title—"Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art"—is a catch-all for these disparate works.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, a 19th-century tycoon, famously said that inherited wealth "deadens talents and energies"—one reason why he gave most of his fortune to charity.
A special muscle deadens the hearing apparatus of the insect when it is calling.
Instead, Cruz and, particularly, McShane are lost in the same old maritime mishmash, a surfeit of characters and plot that deadens the senses.
So what is it about the denizens of Centre Court that so deadens the spirit?
But there are also excessively on-the-nose moments, when we're told what to think and whom to root for, and, in a few plots, there's a muffled virtue that deadens drama.
Free of the fearfulness that deadens orchestral programming, singers hit us with such unexpected fare as "Soneto a Manuel de Falla," by the Spanish surrealist Xavier Montsalvatge (courtesy of the New York Festival of Song), and "Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow?," by the Jacobean lutenist Robert Johnson (a generous gift from Scholl).
Bright But facile, the glamour deadens overnight.
Inuring ourselves to violence deadens our ability to choose what kind of society we want to nurture and preserve.
