benumbs

This undermines the importance of exposition, persuasion, and pleasure in learning; it "benumbs ... [the] imagination and stupefies ... [the] memory"

Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

Phenomenological descriptions, if felicitous, foreground things as they are experienced in the everyday world we inhabit, the real world in which we move and have our being, the world which fascinates and benumbs us.

Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

Phenomenological descriptions, if felicitous, foreground things as they are experienced in the everyday world we inhabit, the real world in which we move and have our being, the world which fascinates and benumbs us.

enowning enowning 2007

        Every delight, all heart's pleasure it wholly benumbs.

Poems and Fragments 2006

        Every delight, all heart's pleasure it wholly benumbs.

Poems and Fragments 2006

No, there is only the coarse spirit which benumbs the palatal nerves, and renders them incapable of picking out these vinous attributes.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

The days drip past, one by one, like water from a spout after a rain-shower; and the dull monotony of them benumbs all wholesome temerity at its core.

Maurice Guest 2003

Parr had found him in a Turkish café in Washington Street, oppressed by the weight of successive misfortunes, and by that sense of fatality which benumbs the Arab of vitiated stock.

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

Opium, the most powerful narcotic, benumbs the brain into sleep; produces a corresponding reaction, on awakening; shuts up the secretions, except that of the skin, and thus deranges the alimentary functions.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

After a cross-examination he confesses his helplessness in a famous simile: Socrates is like the torpedo-fish which benumbs all who touch it.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb