Sentence examples for enervating effects from inspiring English sources

Similarly, agrarians have long contrasted the rude vitality of farm life with the enervating effects of life in an office, or in a factory.

It did not need to be; Dynamo Kyiv were anaemic in a shoddy first‑half performance, displaying all the enervating effects of 77 days without competitive action.

But in the end, the most poignant revival belonged to Venus Williams, now dealing with the unpredictable and enervating effects of the autoimmune disorder called Sjogren's Syndrome.

In the end, the suppression of the rebellion took three times as many troops as the initial invasion, and succeeded partly because of the enervating effects of a brutal famine.

Scott James's description of the enervating effects of rent control on the supply of housing in San Francisco applies to New York City and the few other localities that impose burdensome and overly restrictive housing and rent regulations.

The celebrated Hungarian director Bela Tarr seemed to get Simenon when he explained why he wanted to adapt "The Man From London" (2007) — it "contains the totality of nature and man, just as it contains their pettiness," he said at the time — but the resulting 139-minute film is mainly a demonstration of the enervating effects of his glacial, portentous style.

Meanwhile there's relentless exhaustion, the constant worry and the enervating effect that judgment from others elicits.

It was, instead, a relatively clearheaded acknowledgment that, looking ahead, his relationship with leading media institutions will matter, and that being pounded in the Times day after day can have an enervating effect on a Presidency.

In another moving section of the book he meets Ken, a former prisoner, and learns that one enervating effect of prison life is that there is no escape from the constant light that functions as part of the long arm of security.

Besides, Bruce was clearly prey to exterior issues that did not effect Grant – not least a slight case of Fems (Future England Manager Syndrome, an affliction that has torpedoed the careers of men from Trevor Francis to Aidy Boothroyd) and a more severe outbreak of PSSAC (Possible Successor To Sir Alex Complaint, which has likewise had an enervating effect on Roy Keane and Mark Hughes).

Surely just about every Tea Partier agrees with Ginsberg on the enervating effect of the liberal media: "Are you going to let our emotional life," he once wrote, "be run by Time magazine?" More seriously, the origin of the word "beat" has a connection to the Tea Partiers' sense that they are being marginalized as the country is taken away from them.