We go back to that same thing which was numbing from social media, numbing from social media, numbing from lack of personal contact, numbing from, you know, human development.
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But the process of numbing and un-numbing themselves, of climbing repeatedly to hope from hopelessness, takes its toll.
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The Juvéderm comes with lidocaine, a numbing pain reliever in it, but I always use numbing cream for my patients, too.
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It does not feel reductive to read fiction through this prism, nor will you find the numbing sameness Nunez's narrator deplores — in fact, these books deliver us from numbing sameness.
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"A topical numbing cream prior to the treatment makes it much more comfortable for the patient, but the use of numbing cream is not recommended for pregnant women," he tells PeopleStyle.
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I don't have an opinion on what anyone else should do, but numbing the fear was not the answer for me—because I ended up numbing everything else along with it.
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"For them, given what they had lived through, working a mind-numbing job—it is as mind-numbing in 2600 as it was in 2180—the benefits, they were good enough," Loomis said.
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The statistics tracking climate change since 1988 are almost numbing.
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The Sichuan spice gives the meat a pleasant, numbing tingle.
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In the numbing cold, they were surrounded by floating bodies.
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He reacted to the death, he says, by numbing himself.
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YEARS of terrorism have had a numbing effect on Pakistan.
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Its rigid, numbing cloak was his vesture for 30 years.
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My armor, my weapons, felt weightless in the numbing cold.
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The hypocrisy of California's liberal dominated legislature is mind numbing.
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"A profound and numbing pessimism" pervades campuses, the authors write.
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They inject a numbing medicine directly into the celiac ganglion.
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He showed his love for Bryant and his numbing grief.
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These situations play out with numbing consistency around the country.
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Psychic numbing means there are diminishing returns on human compassion.
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From bone spurs to bone saws, it's one numbing blur.
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The pace and volume of plot is punishing, and numbing.
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" Now, however, he sees it differently: "I was numbing myself.
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It is numbing enough to make you want a drink.
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There's the numbing violence of the sociopaths the business attracts.
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The swirling chills smack against the cheeks like numbing darts.
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Park goes to Mission Chinese for its "fun atmosphere and mouth-numbing mapo tofu," a classic Chinese tofu dish made with spicy Sichuan peppercorns, known for their tingly, numbing effect on the palate ($18.50).
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Especially for a performer like that, you just start numbing yourself.
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I can feel it throbbing now, even in the numbing cold.
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Lots of fire and mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns in this bowl.
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Psychologists call it "psychic numbing," and everyone is susceptible to it.
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The works' numbing regularity lacks any semblance of its former petulance.
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Ignoring the numbing cacophony of thousands of prophets, priests, and gurus.
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PARIS — It is a mind-numbing 3,18063 pages long and growing.
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Being home secretary demands relentless attention to often mind-numbing detail.
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Steam boiled from kitchens serving bowls of hot and numbing soups.
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Feeling blue She used a numbing agent to dull a toothache.
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He must not take golf's eternally unjust, mind-numbing fickleness personally.
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It was pleasant enough, though numbing the longer it went on.
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To some, Microsoft Excel is more than just a mind-numbing spreadsheet.
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Generally, a numbing cream is placed on the skin before the procedure.
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But even more bone-numbing Arctic cold will follow in its wake.
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It's dizzying at first, then exhilarating, then nauseating, and then, finally, numbing.
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Then make damn sure you can take advantage of the numbing cream.
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The feeling of isolation and betrayal is numbing — Naz knows that best.
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I did not come here to observe the numbing tragedy of Knickerbockerdom.
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Wallis's world as an endless social cabaret, populated by numbing lists of
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Bits Digital encryption, with its mind-numbing mathematics, is hard to do.
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It's hard to tell amid the mind-numbing dialogue and incoherent plotting.
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It's a mind numbing challenge that we have to step up to.
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To the chef's credit, milder dishes don't erode against the numbing ones.
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In Scotland, as in every league, managers are fired with numbing regularity.
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The numbing length of these two new collections do Berry no favors.
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"It was a numbing, embittering and largely useless 21993 days," he wrote.
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The dialogue is as brain-numbing as the stagecraft is eye-popping.
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"There is a numbing repetition of the interview process," Shapiro told me.
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She says it "spares them an additional year of mind-numbing exam preparation".
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Could dumb-dumbs be seeking the numbing, feel-good effects of having buddies?
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There is no time for the dialogue to decline into mind-numbing tedium.
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During more rock-infused passages, however, the music unfolds in repetitive, numbing riffs.
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MaLa Project Ma refers to the numbing Sichuan peppercorn, and La means spicy.
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And over the course of two hours, the mania becomes exhausting and numbing.
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Instead of sorting through this mind-numbing stuff unassisted, Catch holds your hand.
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And without that emotional grounding, the violence is stale, and a little numbing.
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Every Monday, I look forward to two mind-numbing hours of reality television.
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Nothing says summer like baseball, very cold drinks and mind-numbing brain freeze.
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I'm not sure if the numbing spray worked, or it was stage fright.
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It's a little painful right now, but the numbing definitely is quite effective.
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Is everything kind of numbing at this point since you're doing so much?
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In 2016, I had a numbing job where I blogged about chirpy influencers.
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He has built a high-level career out of this mind-numbing preparation.
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And her relationships, particularly with her children, have taken on a numbing predictability.
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Think of the hectic, numbing, city-destroying sequences that end every superhero movie.
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That seed of potential, however, sails away on a tide of numbing stupidity.
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The repetition would be numbing if each did not yield a new horror.
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Democratic candidate John Kerry gave perhaps the most mind numbing example of this.
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A barrage of anti-corruption talk might be numbing, but if it is, it will do most of its numbing on marginal Republican voters who might just stay home with a case of why-even-botherism, as they did in 2006.
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My memories are in these pages, places closeby and long ass-numbing flights away.
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Luckily, after 20 minutes, the pain subsided and turned into a comfortable numbing feeling.
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The lines are familiar and a bit numbing: All things come with a risk.
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The first is the numbing response — the loss of sensitivity with the large numbers.
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Opioids work by attaching themselves to the body's natural opioid receptors and numbing pain.
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I guess having the constant of that water hit me is kind of numbing.
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"There is a numbing-out aspect to this in order to survive," Julien says.
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And mind-numbing performance is a big part of what I've been after here.
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While notifications are exciting and a way to engage users repeatedly, they're also numbing.
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Warnings have also been issued for popular teething creams and numbing gels or sprays.
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The level of commentary that can be found on the site is mind-numbing.
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It's displacing the tedious task of looking for problems, which is really mind-numbing.
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Don't be distracted by mind-numbing details on soyabean imports and car joint-ventures.
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Final assembly is mind-numbing and requires no skills other than having working fingers.
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The mind-numbing pain in my abdomen is intense and, sadly, oh-so-familiar.
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Be mindful of numbing your emotions with TV, food, alcohol, or partying it away.
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Benzocaine, an ingredient in the numbing gels, can cause a rare condition called methemoglobinemia.
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The numbing sound of silence leaves me paralyzed, struggling to understand my own thoughts.
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"It's numbing," the trainer Doug O'Neill said of Nyquist's Triple Crown run so far.
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To be standing here by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, it's mind-numbing.
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You're probably thinking this myriad collection of purchase options is mind-numbing and perplexing.
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Pitts a trigger point injection of Marcaine, used as a numbing, non-opioid analgesic.
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She prefers to do this before numbing, since the lidocaine can distort the skin.
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The programs, too commonly a numbing pileup of tired showpieces and frustrating excerpts, disappoint.
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And doctors and nurses contend with insurers' growing demands for mind-numbing electronic documentation.
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As as you walk through the show, the beat of ideological purposefulness grows numbing.
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He explained to me all the infuriatingly irrational ways psychic numbing rears its head.
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Trap music became numbing and it seemed everyone around me became very zombie-like.
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I nodded and looked away as she applied a numbing agent to the area.
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"The procedure can be painful, but a topical numbing cream can help," she said.
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Too much lube can work as a buffer and kind of a numbing agent.
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" REPUBLICAN SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM ON THURSDAY'S ARGUMENTS: "It became mind-numbing after a while.
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The fluorescent lights, the mind-numbing Muzak and the miles of aisles disorient me.
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The medicated lozenge will probably contain menthol or benzocaine, which have a numbing effect.
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"There's a numbing effect too," said a person who is close to the administration.
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After three mind-numbing months of failed sleep, Rani, Liam's blessed Tamil nanny, intervened.
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He trimmed it to nine minutes, diluting its potency, and numbing its necessary nausea.
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Basically, just feeling that I was numbing myself a little bit... That feeling is real.
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Then, she uses a cotton swab to smooth on numbing cream to your lash line.
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After numbing cream is applied, the procedure itself takes a quick 10 or 15 minutes.
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By contrast, the live broadcast in China was politically correct to a mind-numbing extreme.
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Microsoft uses mind-numbing terms like "componentized" and a "distributed document model" to describe Fluid.
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You get to choose both your desired level of spiciness and degree of mouth numbing.
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Needless to say, the fusion freestyle of numbing peppercorns and umami overload is ridiculously good.
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Read Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels for their evocations of numbing loneliness in provincial Sweden.
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But to maintain the numbing effect, he kept using, even as his career took off.
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Plus, I was saved from the mind-numbing labor pain which accompanies a normal delivery.
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It's everything from the numbing, hot and oily Sichuan cuisine to that black chicken soup.
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I've even combed through the brain-numbing legalese of dozens of tech company privacy policies.
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And amid all the billing statements, spreadsheets and mind-numbing prospectuses, some big stories emerged.
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"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
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I found most classes at school mind-numbing, the school system overly uniform and repressive.
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"It became mind-numbing after a while," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
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We are living in the era of depressing, capitalist content packaged as mind-numbing uplift.
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Numbing gusts of wind will make it feel like it's in the 21s or lower.
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No gun -- or numbing gel for that matter, 'cause Drake said he didn't want any.
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A mind-numbing trend in 2015 was the ever-increasing "no phones on the dancefloor" culture.
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Yet, the relentless grimdark of those shows, and the grinding search for Meaning, can be numbing.
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She started by applying numbing cream under my eyes and on the tops of my cheeks.
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While we drive through our glowing cities by night and by day numbing ourselves with Xanax.
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It's expensive, isolating, and mind-numbing to be a contestant on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette.
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Maybe that's why they smoke so much weed, which Sinclair notes has a distinctly numbing effect.
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He has a great many relations who seem to get married and buried with numbing regularity.
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We should use robots to remove the mind-numbing tasks of batch reading routine X-rays.
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Sesame Street is now just like every other mind-numbing children's show you have to watch.
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It's mind-numbing that certain NYC politicians, including AOC, are gloating over Amazon's decision to bail.
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So I needed to get a drug that was a little more numbing if you will.
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"The number of conversations we've had about what sexy means today is mind-numbing," Cox said.
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It makes for a wonderful snack; they have the signature citrus taste without the numbing effect.
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Opioid painkillers stimulate receptors in the brain and elsewhere to produce a powerful pain-numbing effect.
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Central bankers are famous for burying important information in mind-numbing jargon and infinitely careful language.
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Brace yourself for a blog about one of the more mind-numbing lawsuits in recent memory.
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After the outline is complete, a generous amount of numbing cream is applied to the area.
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Fusion focussed on open-source research—mind-numbing dives into the fine print of public records.
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There is a numbing incantation of faults attributed to the troika (did they do anything right?).
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We rounded up a few of our favorite mouth-numbing, heartburn-inducing recipes for your perusal.
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WITH awful, numbing regularity Americans use high-powered, high-capacity firearms to carry out mass shootings.
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Look through the death lens, and Instagram and Twitter look like nothing more than numbing agents.
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Remember all the tedious, mind-numbing work you're avoiding by contracting out your iced coffee production?
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"The number of companies and industries lining up looking for largess is mind numbing," he said.
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The interest "speaks to how tired students are of numbing their emotions," one told our reporter.
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This is the key insight of psychic numbing research: Our system of feelings doesn't do math.
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Former detainees, though, have described the classes as numbing, harsh and ultimately futile attempts at brainwashing.
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The way the camera lasciviously details the brutality of Gilead is often more numbing than incisive.
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Roads, bridges and subway systems are badly in need of repair, and commutes can be numbing.
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An unending stream of such images might prove not only upsetting to readers, but eventually numbing.
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When everything looks the same, your brain tends to slide down into a rut of numbing familiarity.
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That's the only part that hurt — the numbing — since the skin around the eye is really sensitive.
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It was the third or fourth mind-numbing episode of Springer, and the room had grown interested.
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She recalled the rest of that day as a series of "horrific, surreal, and mind-numbing" moments.
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"Though there are only so many creative-kill scenarios before the death toll becomes numbing," she said.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to the incident on Twitter, calling it a "mind-numbing" tragedy.
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He said it was some of the most mind-numbing yet physically demanding work he's ever done.
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Like watching the show itself, filming it can be arduous and more than a little mind-numbing.
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It's about evoking the hopelessness of the world under Hydra's thumb, and its sadness is just numbing.
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Dr. Lee begins the delicate extraction by numbing the area with a needle to the lid. Youch!
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In addition to numbing minds and crushing souls, the insurance industry's obstacle courses cost time and money.
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Yet its sterile aesthetic and strained conversations have a numbing effect that mimics the characters' emotional disengagement.
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If I'm making it for myself at home, I'm going to make it very spicy and numbing.
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I spent the next year in a downward spiral of depression, using alcohol as my numbing agent.
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It's fiery and salty and sweet and, if you add Sichuan peppercorns to it, numbing as well.
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In this instance, Matz received a computed tomography examination that involved numbing the nerve with an anesthetic.
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Suicide Squad's numbing sameness extends well beyond its master-close-up, close-up, close-up shot sequences.
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If they ever questioned the numbing consumerism that dictates their aspirations, they are deaf to it now.
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Sometimes the meals are as low-stakes as a snack between sessions at a mind-numbing conference.
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The operation, by Dr. Hayek, took about two hours, with the patient awake but given numbing medication.
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Politicians, activists and intellectuals have succumbed with numbing regularity, betraying every principle they once claimed to uphold.
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And sure, it would be a lousy, boring, mind-numbing three weeks, despite Netflix and Amazon deliveries.
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Is not our entire fixation on profit a psychic numbing that has divorced us from ecological coherence?
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New forms must be forged; new traps set; new words invented, like "solastalgia," that sidestep numbing jargon.
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This type of supposed &aposshows&apos only cause one thing: numbing the population to attacks against Christians.
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The storyline has become so commonplace it's almost numbing: A disaffected male shoots and kills innocent people.
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The numbing routine of the hospital is disrupted when a hotheaded, seriously injured young man bursts in.
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The high today is 252, which will feel more like a limb-numbing 29 with the wind.
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From there, you have Danny Bowien's Mission Chinese Food serving cheese pizza alongside numbing mapo tofu. Why?
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But the real mind-numbing factor is how all of these photographs fall prey to cookie-cutter Instagrammization.
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The album explores themes such as gentrification, technology, alienation, revolution and the mind-numbing effects of prescription drugs.
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The country is now in a period of relative but uneasy calm; ceasefire violations persist with numbing regularity.
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It's the comic relief that punctures the numbing, paralyzing nihilism we feel whenever we think about our futures.
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They speak longingly of the numbing spice of Sichuan peppercorn or the sour herbs found in Yunnan cooking.
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They used a numbing cream beforehand, so it felt like a vibrating toothpick being scratched along my lips.
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But if you can handle your spice, these slightly-mouth-numbing wings from Mission Chinese are for you.
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My tongue feels like the time I chewed coca leaves, but without the numbing effect and the euphoria.
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It contains pain-numbing properties, so you don't notice them even as they stab and rip your flesh.
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Haidilao is Szechuan hot pot, which focuses more on "mala," or a numbing spiciness that comes from peppercorns.
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And although the tea did cure the mind-numbing headaches immediately, it left a lot to be desired.
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Even if you came for the fireworks, what will stick with you is a sense of numbing dread.
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Who has more mind-numbing feats expected of him, and seems to have survived so unfazed by them?
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By mentioning the flu numbers, Trump is hoping to get people thinking of big numbers, and induce numbing.
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On Baseball ATLANTA — The very best part of the Mets is now a symbol of their numbing ineptitude.
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The numbing Sichuan peppercorn (a pain reliever and gut cleanser) couldn't legally enter the United States until 2005.
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Around China, the view is that Sichuan food consists mainly of three flavors: hot, hotter and mind-numbing.
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Former camp detainees who have left China have described numbing, harsh and even brutal treatment inside the facilities.
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Simply competing in a regular-season game after two years in mind-numbing rehabilitation purgatory was an accomplishment.
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By slowing down how the event is seen, Baudelaire acutely points out the numbing effect of news media.
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The latest defeat has no legal implications but is another in a numbing series of setbacks for Mrs.
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Agricultural and industrial jobs were often mind-numbing; few people were looking to be fulfilled by paid labor.
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Usry is concerned such exposure can have a numbing effect, and that it could be exploitative of victims' pain.
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Dr. Lee uses the tumescent numbing technique, which we saw in episode eight, which makes Leonard's arm extra puffy.
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During The Process During your appointment, a topical numbing cream is applied to your skin before the process begins.
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They arrested 33,29 criminal aliens who committed all kinds of crimes that would be mind-numbing to your audience.
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Just when we thought we knew all the tricks to survive a night out in high heels — numbing spray!
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For example, Hereditary combined satanism with the mind-numbing, but familiar grief following the death of a family member.
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When I walk through the doors my head is ringing with regret, mind-numbing repetition, and expectations of browbeating.
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While the numbing cream took effect, Aava answered a few of my burning questions about microblading on dark skin.
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Despite the mind-numbing bore of jogging such a short length in endless loops, Wheatcroft had to memorize it.
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Its top speed is a delirious 25 miles per hour, and it's capable of a face-numbing 2450 horsepower.
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Because data is the key to anything you're doing with AI. That will be the new mind-numbing jobs.
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Usually, we're stuck paying very expensive expedited shipping prices or fighting mind-numbing traffic when last minute holiday shopping.
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He has been numbing his psychic abilities with alcohol and is still haunted by the memory of his father.
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Numbing out on pain pills in the middle of the day is not my idea of a good time.
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With no numbing cream and the thought of having multiple injections in my face, I was a little nervous.
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The shared frustration, daily victories and Disney theatrics passed our time, but the mind-numbing boredom was never ending.
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Now it's a program bumper title and just a gimmick to hold your attention through the mind numbing commercials.
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Ian Kerner, psychologist and author of She Comes First, recommends Promescent which contains another type of numbing agent—lidocaine.
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And although chikungunya rarely is, it's referred to as the "breaking bone" disease because of the mind-numbing pain.
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Besides the stress of navigating security lines, layovers and delays, there's the mind-numbing time spent in the air.
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"Seeing what had been done to those people's bodies — it just stripped away all of the numbing," she said.
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News of sectarian violence reaches us daily from across the globe, bringing us unimaginably horrific and mind-numbing images.
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The accusations range from glorifying violence and guns to numbing heavy consumers of such material to real-life events.
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All that information must be collected, collated and copied for every board member to review, a mind-numbing task.
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Then she injected a numbing medication into the growth and used a sharp knife to cut the growth open.
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They blend together under the numbing banner of what a freak show he can be, of Trump being Trump.
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The actual number of Venezuelan exiles is hard to come by, but even the lowest estimates are mind numbing.
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They attributed her blueness to a numbing agent the woman was using, which deadens nerve endings in the skin.
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But life as a Marine on the ship, with its claustrophobic berthing areas and dull routine, was mind-numbing.
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That's the power of mass violence: its ability to transform specific loss into general loss, numbing our collective consciousness.
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I have to set aside a lovely afternoon to do it, and it's really mind-numbing to do it.
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So, shout outs to alcohol, sugar, sex, and weed, which have been doing the work of comforting and numbing millions.
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Congress will now have something more stimulating to look forward to than a numbing floor fight over an appropriations bill.
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But for those of us who approach footwear decisions even somewhat pragmatically, fancy occasions mean toe-numbing, hobble-inducing shoes.
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On a scale of easy to mind-numbing, the book's designer says the puzzles range from moderate to very difficult.
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Even certain kinds or horror fans, who expect gobs of gore or numbing terror, may come out of it complaining.
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I was at work, writing a press release for a drum n bass night, which was pretty mind numbing work.
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Before the blowout two-on-one date, though, this episode provides one of the more mind-numbing dates in history.
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The book features so many case studies of the N.C.A.A.'s arcane, Dickensian rules that they start to feel numbing.
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With the numbing gel, I barely felt the wand rolling over my skin, and what I did feel wasn't unpleasant.
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But scientists aren't drawn to their profession because they love mind-numbing repetition and enormous spreadsheets full of meaningless numbers.
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Pediatricians, after all, have a few tricks up their sleeves: distraction, cold packs and numbing creams among them, said Shu.
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These are the same kind of mind-numbing twists and turns that made USA Network's breakout hacker drama a hit.
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Or at least it builds that core idea into a frame for jaw-dropping setpieces and brain-numbing plot twists.
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Amazon said it closed some buildings, including fulfillment centers across the Midwest that were affected by the numbing low temperatures.
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Suddenly all the years I spent numbing myself with Slurpee-sized glasses of wine on dates coalesce into clearer shape.
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The lists of Sandra Blands, Christian Taylors, Samuel Duboses, Aaron Campbells, Quintonio Legriers, and Bettie Joneses is numbing, sickening, terrifying.
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And then, after that, we take the numbing cream off with some alcohol, and we start the plasma fibroblast treatment.
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I understand the frightful, mind-numbing, hair-raising disbelief that can descend when one realizes that this is indeed plausible.
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From this surgeon she learned about the injection of the numbing medication into the nerve bundle, then underwent the test.
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"I would never recommend numbing the skin because the physical aspect of it is a huge part of the experience."
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The mugging for the camera, especially by Mr. Galvin, is numbing, making the show's rarely funny jokes even less so.
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Phenol is also the chemical that is in throat spray drugs like Chloraseptic, and it has a mild numbing effect.
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I was afraid of losing myself, of numbing myself, of watching my creativity and sincerity and uniquely empathetic nature disappear.
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Sitting is terrible for your health, and mind-numbing when you're staring at the same wall or window all day.
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" Ms. Williams, who has often observed him, described the process as "mind-numbing and thrilling in kind of equal measure.
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Taken individually, these songs are in the canon for a reason, of course; one after another, their effect is numbing.
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The accusations against Harvey Weinstein are dreadful, but the pace at which similar stories have emerged recently is mind-numbing.
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Over all, the attacks this year have been smaller in scale and have focused on security forces with numbing regularity.
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Ms. Schembri said she was initially drawn to the painstaking — what some might call the mind-numbing — labor of investigation.
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"I find it absolutely mind-numbing that a company like Apple can sit on $2100 billion of cash," Yusko said.
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Sunday's killings were the latest in a series of mass shootings that have unfolded across the country with numbing frequency.
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Normally, I drive the rear-numbing route through the corn fields, which takes about five hours and leaves me exhausted.
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As of two years ago, he was working mind-numbing 70-hour weeks at Smoothie King for $7.25 an hour.
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The word "mala" is an efficient coupling of the Chinese characters for "numbing" and "spicy," traits synonymous with Sichuanese cooking.
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The pockets of time he spends at Clockwork are doused in a numbing, sepia haze that conflates safety with dullness.
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It's the latest in a long and numbing line of examples that this White House just doesn't take security seriously.
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Bill Haslam who flew over the scorched region said it was "a little numbing" to see the extent of the damage.
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Even though she applied numbing cream to the area, you can still hear him screaming in pain while having it done.
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They lack the roar of an engine to drown out the brain-numbing drone of rubber on asphalt, so quiet matters.
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Most recently, House Judiciary Committee hearings were held to discuss the mind-numbing accusations made by conservative vloggers Diamond and Silk.
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After what has been literally years of mind-numbing speculation, next week the presidential primaries will begin at the Iowa caucuses.
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Its veracity may be suspect, but this 2008 YouTube classic has more than 12.7 million views, despite a mind-numbing soundtrack.
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After that, as ever, venturing down the Armory Show's interminable aisles offers the promise of pleasant surprises amid numbing visual overstimulation.
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There's no discomfort if you use a numbing gel, but it can be mildly painful without, especially as the treatments progress.
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That being said, the commercials that are shown on your network are the most god awful, horrible, worthless, mind numbing. patronizing.
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Most get little choice in what they do, causing well-qualified people to complain of mind-numbing work with no prospects.
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Dr. Green, who charges $1,500 per session, says the procedure doesn't hurt because she applies a numbing cream 30 minutes beforehand.
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For this tough area, Dr. Lee takes a different approach, numbing and snipping off the large sticky dots using serrated scissors.
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For now, I'm going to try spending more time on the causes of the pain rather than the numbing of it.
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The numbing temperatures restrict veins and limit blood flow, which reduces inflammation — but there's little evidence that the treatment actually works.
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How many people find their situation so mind-numbing, awful and generally hopeless that they give up on their own life?
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For them, having a drink isn't about numbing themselves from the pain caused by demanding children or resisting the perfect moms.
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We are about to enter the epoch of Salmonella-laced barbecues, family holidays, and mind-numbing arguments about Andy Murray's nationality.
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The constant feinting and variety of Bisping kept Silva from throwing effective counters, dulling his reactions and numbing his trigger finger.
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This one may look familiar to those who have been following Dudolf, a Hungarian illustrator known for mind-numbing puzzle work.
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ACTION AND ADVENTURE My guilty pleasure television program is "Live PD." It's mind-numbing and perfect for a solo Sunday evening.
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Its numbing consistency had stood in contrast to the Oscars, which shed more than 10 million viewers between 2014 and 2017.
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For Mr. Bayrle, to be hypnotized by mass production, by the 24-hour churning of machines, can be numbing — or sublime.
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For a place that hasn't had a close statewide election in the post-Citizens United era, the effect can be numbing.
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Singapore's new route, which takes 18 hours and 553 minutes in the opposite direction, isn't the only rear-numbing new itinerary.
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It sleepwalked through its group, with single-goal victories against Australia and Peru, and a mind-numbing goalless draw with Denmark.
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Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing.
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In most cases, you will be swamped with an unending stream of data, eye-watering policy details, and mind-numbing meetings.
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The reviews matched the sentiment, referring to it as a "mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire" with a "lame" concept and execution.
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"There seems to be a numbing or desensitization effect for parents who see these movies all the time," Mr. Romer said.
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She also says that the numbing spray Dermoplast — which relieves itching and pain surrounding cuts — is life-saver for many moms.
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She has high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and peripheral neuropathy, a nerve condition that has caused numbing in her feet.
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The proofreader marks up documents that make little sense, a matter so mind-numbing that he falls asleep at his desk.
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Timut pepper is very aromatic and floral, and shares the pleasant, slightly numbing sensation of Sichuan pepper — yet another peppercorn impostor.
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"Some of these issues, like reparations for gay people, these are mind numbing things for voters in Youngstown, Ohio," said Bennett.
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"I designed the logo in the first client meeting and spent two years having to make mind-numbing presentations," she recalled.
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E. MARIANNE GABEL DELAWARE, OHIO To the Editor: The obsession with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is mind-numbing.
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The storm will be followed by numbing temperatures, 15 to 25 degrees below normal across the Plains and the Upper Midwest.
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They tackle themes of isolation and social invisibility, as well as the numbing of souls that can come with professional success.
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From him, she learned the foundations of Sichuanese cooking, which is known for tongue-numbing dishes and truckloads of chili peppers.
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Soothe without numbing, rest without guilt, hydrate to replenish your foundation, and use your body while there is still miracle in it.
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The huge annual trade show, running Wednesday through Saturday in Las Vegas, will have its usual mind-numbing number of new gadgets.
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The parademons actually look kind of cool, but watching our heroes mow down endless hordes of faceless enemies gets numbing pretty quickly.
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Less travel time would be a godsend to anyone who has ever had to suffer through leg-numbing flights over the holidays.
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Celebrities love to remind us that being famous comes with hard work: grueling shooting schedules, energy-draining performances, mind-numbing press junkets.
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Read up on what it's really like to get an eyebrow tattoo before applying the numbing cream and going under the needle.
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"It was the craziest pain ever," she told GQ, noting that she wasn't under anesthesia or any numbing agents during the process.
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The amount of the piquant, palate-numbing spice is well-balanced in the salt, so it does not overwhelm what you season.
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I don't ask for numbing cream when I get injected, because beauty is pain (also, it takes too long to kick in).
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Jamie Dornan's American accent sounds like he dipped his tongue in numbing fluid, which could very well be a filming survival tactic.
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Has your job changed so that you're now doing a lot of things you find mind-numbing or off your career path?
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So before we started, Amanda asked me about my pain tolerance and if I'd like numbing cream to help with the discomfort.
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She administered the numbing cream, and we let that sink in for about 10-15 minutes, and then began the actual procedure.
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On land or in the air, modern technology consistently handles mundane, repetitious, complex, or mind-numbing tasks so we don't have to.
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He was eager to return to Betsy Head and the sanctuary of the field and the mind-numbing repetition of football drills.
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I cried the first few times I felt it, but it soon became so common that I started numbing myself to it.
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She gives them both roses, which means there's plenty of time for numbing card-game drama to arise in the next week.
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Anyone who has endured the mind-numbing drone of rote learning can understand the allure of VR and AR as educational tools.
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In Texas, recent warm weather gave way to numbing cold, with the "feels like" reading dropping from 92 to 31 in places.
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The city's escalating violence, fueled by gang wars and abundant guns, has become a crisis that leads to tragedy with numbing regularity.
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"I needed to get a drug that was a little more numbing, if you will," he said in the 12-minute doc.
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For a case study in how this numbing of the political senses works, look no further than Mitt Romney and John McCain.
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This is followed by a mind-numbing three hours in a dance club, including an explicit oral-sex scene in a bathroom.
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Yet in a movie as happy to resurrect characters as rub them out, nothing is of consequence, and the glibness grows numbing.
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Is this virus, this lesion, going to make us rethink the numbing, blinding, machinations of industrial giantism as we have known it?
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It's also representative of escapism and self-numbing through drugs or other habits that take us to artificial realities (hello, social media!).
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Squat, five-story banks of numbing gray Soviet apartment blocks gave way to cheerfully colored, 10-story buildings constructed around appealing playgrounds.
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When a woman married, she increased her routine housework — the numbing work that must be done each day — by almost that much.
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All four members of the family are out of work—they get by on small, mind-numbing jobs like folding pizza boxes.
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Or will our urban areas succumb to a numbing, commercially driven homogeneity, with the past serving as merely a nostalgic marketing tool?
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Those three days were (despite the numbing powers of painkillers and anti-anxiolytics) the most mentally and physically taxing of my entire life.
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As Freud has described, there are various ways of doing this: by repressing experience, dissociating from it, numbing it, turning away from it.
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After numbing the back area, Dr. Lee slices into the lump, and a blob of gummy white pus spurts out from the cut.
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As the number of victims increases, empathy can plateau or even go down, a phenomenon the Arithmetic of Compassion project calls psychic numbing.
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She used it, she said, to "fill up a vacuum," numbing her grief with the mindless banter of a handful of WhatsApp groups.
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Either way, chances are you are so ready for that particular brand of mind-numbing entertainment that comes with watching a Christmas movie.
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That's the splashy entrance to the LG booth at CES this year: 256 OLED displays warped to form a long senses-numbing passageway.
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They also suggest that parents avoid teething creams and numbing gels, sprays, and ointments for children that are younger than 2-years-old.
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Now that Mother Nature has caught up with us and is delivering blustery, face-numbing forecasts, we're back to acing our layering game.
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After graduating from Harvard Law, he landed a job spending 16 hours a day reviewing contract language, a process he called mind-numbing.
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In February Activision Blizzard, a Californian firm, snaffled up King Digital (maker of Candy Crush and other mind-numbing games) for $5.9 billion.
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The site frequently crashed, failed to load episodes, got stuck looping episodes over and over, and played ads with a mind-numbing frequency.
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Danny, played by Ewan McGregor, has been numbing his psychic abilities with alcohol but is still haunted by the memory of his father.
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O" later followed with critiques of the rigid school system and its mind-numbing effects, just as Seo Taiji did in "Classroom Idea.
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And of course, no one can forget the mind-numbing destroyer of worlds, Christianity's spokesperson, our born-again 803rd president, George W. Bush.
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Sucking on drops can soothe and moisten the throat, and versions with menthol could have a tiny numbing effect on that annoying tickle.
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A new, quietly introduced visa form reminds us that mind-numbing bureaucracy can be an effective family-separation tool if that's your game.
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And they spoke of the numbing barrage of school shootings in America — by some counts more than 2003 in the past two decades.
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Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores crashed in terrain that was waist-deep in snow, with temperatures as numbing as 48 degrees below zero.
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Afterward, Manning was understandably torn between thanking fans for protesting his benching and lamenting another numbing defeat in a season full of them.
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Other women may have pain limited to the opening of the vagina that can be eased with a lidocaine ointment, a numbing cream.
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The film is a portrait of a Liverpool housewife (Pauline Collins) who breaks out of her numbing routine when she travels to Greece.
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And no one expects him to sit quietly through nearly two days of normally mind-numbing speeches by at least 28 other leaders.
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But the statistics do not reflect the tension that ran through the entire fight between Fury's cautious boxing and Wilder's numbing punching power.
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Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin finished the playoffs with a lower-body injury that required pain-numbing injections, the Russian Hockey Federation said.
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Too often, trendy minimalism is a way of numbing ourselves to reality and maintaining a comfortable, solid barrier through which nothing unpleasant intrudes.
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Things that never happened before now happen with such regularity that the numbing and the dumbing down can make a rational human inert.
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Feeling connected — with others, with ourselves — is an antidote to tough feelings we try to keep at bay by distracting and numbing ourselves.
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He seemed to always be on the edge of two worlds, of ecstasy and mind-numbing routine, of the surreal and of Streatham.
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It's unclear in some of these cases precisely what catheterization procedures were used—for example, the kind of numbing agent applied, if any.
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When every week yields a shooting or an incident with police or terrorist bombing, we're reminded how numbing tragedy in the news becomes.
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Humans shouldn't be doing a lot of jobs that are either dangerous or stupid or mind-numbing and they're not going to be.
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Dr. Weiser prepped my lips with numbing cream before meticulously injecting both my top and bottom lips with one whole syringe of Restylane-L.
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However, one thing inside The House Cat Videos Built feels out of place: one of the Wi-Fi networks crawls at mind-numbing speed.
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The experience of watching Margot Sleator (Amy Forsyth) stumble on her dead father (John Carroll Lynch) over and over again is claustrophobic, oppressive, numbing.
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You can also try over-the-counter pain relief gels with numbing agents like lidocaine or benzocaine and cold compresses, according to Mayo Clinic.
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Before extracting the roach, doctors will generally kill it if it's still alive, by either using mineral oils or a numbing drug called lidocaine.
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After our enlightening conversation and shared Google searches, Dr. Cardiel filled up a half dozen syringes with a cocktail of steroids and numbing agents.
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The grotesque parade of bureaucratic types and numbing mundaneness of magisterial life borrows more from Franz Kafka than from Frantz Fanon or Edward Said.
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Together they founded BREWPUBLIK, a company which takes the hassle out of the mind-numbing number of choices that beer-drinkers are faced with.
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It was difficult for me to level my inhibitions to sleep with my first john, so I used drugs as a numbing social lubricant.
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First came a series of international conferences that cataloged the mind-numbing medical and humanitarian consequences that will follow any use of nuclear weapons.
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Her employer paid for a nerve block that helped temporarily, numbing her lower back, but she could not afford more injections or physical therapy.
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Ground zero for the gruesome work of poaching is in Niassa Reserve -- 13 numbing hours of dirt roads and overflowing streams away from Pemba.
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The internet and social media are often used by extremist groups to circulate and praise acts of violence, numbing the youth to horrific sights.
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So anyone that is abusing is actually gaining a benefit from it, and the benefit might be escape, it might be numbing the pain.
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Post-drink cocktails are the fuel that keeps the hamsters on the hamster wheel through the general ennui of the mind-numbing work week.
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We'd be remiss if we didn't suggest you give Danny Bowien's new-classic, mouth-numbing Chongqing chicken wings from Mission Chinese Food a try.
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It doesn't matter how iconic the scene is, that it's been rendered in a thousand movies, described in books and documentaries into numbing cliché.
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At 13, Buffett took what could have been a mind-numbing job as a paper boy and turned it into a competition with himself.
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In fact, the qualities I had objected to — the quietness, the numbing distance, the sense of taking inventory — had actually, slyly, been the point.
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"I think Democratic primary voters are numbing to Trump's buffoonery — black voters in particular," said Addisu Demissie, who managed Senator Cory Booker's presidential campaign.
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As early as 1970 Ali's physician Ferdie Pacheco (the "Fight Doctor") began numbing Ali's fists before fights with cortisone and an anesthetic called Xylazine.
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The numbing of Americans to gun violence is unique to our country, and the inaction by Congress to protect us is a national tragedy.
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Paul Slovic, one of the lead psychologists who has studied psychic numbing, says he doesn't expect Americans to grow numb to this growing crisis.
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So instead we now seem to be interiorizing our existential aches and angst, smirking knowingly at them, and numbing ourselves to maintain our nonchalance.
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But the work is excruciating, mind-numbing, and often soul-killing, sparking controversy for traumatizing those who are exposed to so much disgusting material.
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Blank Slate Kitchen in Brooklyn has just introduced an uncommon version made with Sichuan peppercorns, which contribute the intriguingly numbing heat of that spice.
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Think of the insanity of becoming sedentary and wasting time with mind-numbing electronic content, then wearing that experience as a badge of honor.
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Many percussion concertos devolve into a numbing barrage; the most striking moment here was one of melancholy lyricism, as vibraphone blended with solo cello.
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Through it all, the company managed to produce strong financial results with the numbing consistency of the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
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This soul-numbing $7 spray can is sold by Simply Beyond Foods, a company that I sincerely hope has attracted the attention of INTERPOL.
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This is something television, a medium that has a history of favoring mind-numbing consistency, has only begun to tackle over the last two decades.
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"There is no constant value for a human life," University of Oregon psychologist Paul Slovic, the leading expert on psychic numbing, said in an interview.
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Before it's over, some runners will have experienced three sunrises, two nights of running, perhaps a few harmless hallucinations, serious blisters and numbing sleep deprivation.
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When he sings about the codeine concoction in his hand that's making him feel "waaay better," it sounds like it's actually just numbing the pain.
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As NPR reported last month, IV bags, injections for various anemic disorders, and a tissue-numbing agent — which seems kind of important at a hospital!
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As he floats away, and other massive buildings come into view, the piece conjures both Magic Realism and an artistic refusal of architecture's numbing anonymity.
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Israeli cameras, adapted from military devices, use artificial intelligence to scan for flaws in the fabric, automating one of the most mind-numbing of jobs.
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Your doctor can provide the numbing gel in office or give you a prescription so you can apply it at home prior to your visit.
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But the game's difficulty, which is low, isn't about pulling up walls in front of the player that require technical skill or mind-numbing repetition.
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The warmest it will be today is a nose-numbing 30 degrees, but the wind chill will make it feel — at most — around 13 degrees.
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Along with the aforementioned mackerel, there are fermented mustard greens, charged with a housemade chile oil zapped with numbing Sichuan pepper, among other heat sources.
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The relentlessness of the snowstorm and the abundance of dramedies about life in New York were running into a numbing blur, blinding me with whiteness.
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Fortunately for fans sick of mind-numbing hospital talk, Robert sacrificed himself by interrupting dinner and spewing blood all over the food and several aristocrats.
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Those human labelers, who probably have the most mind-numbing job in tech, can either be the company's Mechanical Turk users or third-party service.
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Let us begin the process of numbing ourselves so the pain of seeing Brady's stupid grin as he raises another Vince Lombardi Trophy is lessened.
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Scandal and dysfunction dribble out from Washington day by day, numbing us so that we may forget just how unprecedented and outrageous the trends are.
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There we get brief but striking scenes about numbing routines in trenches and outbursts of violence that result in scattered limbs and deeply bloodstained earth.
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In fact, current RPS policies were estimated to cost a mind-numbing 18.6 times more than a broader portfolio that includes those low-carbon sources.
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Tasting food professionally sounds pretty cool on paper, but the reality is that like any job, it can become repetitive and numbing after a while.
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It's called psychic numbing, and it means that as the number of victims in a tragedy increases, our empathy, our willingness to help, reliably decreases.
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While air strikes often grab the headlines, the vast majority of missions in Afghanistan involve hours of mind-numbing surveillance and intelligence gathering, crews say.
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"The book's numbing catalog of high-end consumer items has been drastically edited," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times, and the body count is lower.
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Mr. Tower's new primer is a small book that, like most etiquette volumes, delivers a great deal of advice so obvious as to be numbing.
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You'd sit at the bar of the restaurant eating the dish and laugh, it was so fiery and numbing and sweet and salty and good.
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They're heinous, and it will take many hours of watching mind-numbing reality television to strike feet nails from my memory — if it's even possible.
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Mackenzie does nice, tight work now and again, mostly in more intimate sequences, but too many scenes drag, and his fetishistization of violence proves numbing.
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The danger of hateful feedback (in addition to the possibility of actual danger) is that to repel it, you risk numbing yourself to constructive criticism.
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But once the numbing effect kicks in, the mouse launches a second attack and kills the scorpion, despite taking several more stings in the process.
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Hyman's answer is that each of these artists is "resistant" to the legacy of 19th century academic naturalism and it's numbing external vision of materialism.
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His team was inert, the offense consisting of a mind-numbing set of nowhere runs and Manning passes that went a yard or 2, or 3.
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Considering that the surgical procedure doesn't involve any kind of numbing, Pat's pain threshold essentially determines how much of the seborrheic keratosis Dr. Lee can remove.
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The lowest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica—and the world for that matter—was a numbing -128.6 degrees at the Soviet run Vostok station in 1983.
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The space agency conducted its first test of the system on October 4, with the parachute deploying successfully at a mind-numbing speed of mach 1.8.
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Then, surgeons will often inject into the area of operation a solution containing a mix of saline solution, a numbing medicine, and medicine the decreases bleeding.
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Add to that the mind-numbing volume of porn careening through the internet and it is evident that the appetite for all things sexual is unquenchable.
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The Joyetech eGo AIO takes all the mind-numbing complexity out of vaping, and at $25, it's cheap enough for anyone to try at least once.
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In the end, it is less a portrait of sleep-deprived mothers and the chaos wrought by a newborn than of the numbing effect of stability.
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Granted, many pop songs are profane, mind numbing garbage, but considering Beyoncé's status as Pagan Goddess of Secular America, her garbage is all the more toxic.
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"When I started doing iStock, I had the most mind-numbing job doing customer service at a call center," the California-based photographer told BuzzFeed News.
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" He then explained that he discovered cough syrup because marijuana made him too "paranoid" and he wanted something more "numbing and less like, in your head.
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He'll be using a topical numbing cream on my face to reduce discomfort from the injections and the session itself will take around half an hour.
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The architecture is striking in its banality; bureaucratic, sterile, and repetitive, a detention center is a mind-numbing maze with few windows and omnipresent security cameras.
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"It is heartbreaking and numbing to know our former members let Tim and his family down in such a tragic way," Kay said in the statement.
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But ultimately I saw myself faced with two options: Numbing the fear, or building up the joy and love that are even greater than the fear.
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I got people who didn't insist I got drugged to the gills with a lot of mind numbing things that basically turn you into a vegetable.
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But the news on Noah is good, first because it has halted the brain-numbing nonsense that the Knicks were in the running for Kevin Durant.
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With six locations in New York and the original Queens outpost, the father-son restaurant chain deals exclusively in the spicy, lip-numbing cuisine of Xi'an.
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And on the extreme end, when incidents of everyday hate lead to fatal or near-lethal violence, such events become so painful as to be numbing.
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Click here to view original GIFAnimating anything by hand using stop-motion techniques, one frame at a time, is a time-consuming and mind-numbing process.
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The push and pull of "Westworld" is that it grapples with deep intellectual conundrums while reveling in a kind of numbing pageant of death and destruction.
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The orgy of D-list walk-ons seems as if it ought to be fun, but it's excessive and too forced to be anything but numbing.
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On Tuesday, though, after 2257 games of numbing mediocrity this season, the Nationals conceded that they had fallen off the camels' backs with a resounding thud.
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Mr. Paiva, as tall and imposing as the dead fish before him, dipped his cloth-gloved hand in warm water, to keep his fingers from numbing.
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While students publicly praise ideological classes like this one, in private many say they find the courses dull and irrelevant, numbing propaganda — and only grudgingly participate.
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She was given to composing yards of bad poetry ("I miss you like I miss the rain") which De Stefano quotes at cruel and numbing length.
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I had to get a couple of stitches and the numbing medicine didn't really take, so that was the most unpleasant part of the whole birth.
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Collective shock can be an effective tool not just for numbing the population but for swaying public opinion or introducing policies that would normally seem unacceptable.
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Terms like "yield curve" can be mind-numbing if you're not a bond trader, but the mechanics, practical impact and psychology of it are fairly straightforward.
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There's Impossible Pork Banh Mi, Impossible Pork Char Siu Buns, Impossible Pork Dan Dan Noodles, Impossible Pork Katsu, and Impossible Pork Sweet, Sour, and Numbing Meatballs.
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When these are added to the poppy music and the twirling stage, the effect is often numbing and the two-hour running time feels much longer.
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Finally, there's Colin (Mark Proksch), a "psychic vampire," who doesn't drink people but rather drains their energy, hilariously, by boring them with his mind-numbing dullness.
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A morsel swiped in the dark red sauce, lightly numbing with prickly ash and roaring with fried chiles, finds you speed eating like a cartoon character.
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A meticulous realism transcribes in numbing detail every syllable of classroom conversation, alongside a great daily fuss about printing and stapling — the literal pushing of papers.
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According to a paper published Monday in Nature Neuroscience, telling lies repeatedly appears to have the effect of numbing or conditioning the brain to further dishonestly.
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Violence, in Gibson's view, is a glorious aesthetic choice, and Hacksaw Ridge's violent imagery goes so far and goes on so long as to be completely numbing.
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Yet the net effect is more numbing than stirring, with only a few monster-on-monster tussles that come close to being worth the price of admission.
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Now that's a name that Cirque du Soleil's international audience has no doubt heard of, while the mind-numbing rest, as Shakespeare might have said, is silence.
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Most doctors offer numbing cream and lidocaine shots, which means that by the time the laser hits (with an ominous-sounding snap), the worst part is over.
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But as the research suggests, if we allow for more mass shootings to happens, for the number of dead to keep climbing, numbing will only grow worse.
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Godzilla doesn't just spend its time mindlessly destroying the world with its atomic breath in brain-numbing American remakes that no one should spend two hours watching.
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The bastion of inadequacy You, against all odds, evade the grasp of dry, numbing high school computer science courses and plan to learn on your own. Wait!
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Once the needle lifts off your skin, the ink settles, and that numbing tingle fades, it's time to take your new baby home and, well, baby it.
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That's also where fans gathered in the numbing cold after he died to lay flowers, many unaware, until that day, that he'd been a fellow New Yorker.
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In 21978, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner delivered a shotgun blast of dark comedy, social satire, and mind-numbing violence with RoboCop.
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Your successful friends are not trying to escape life by numbing the pain; they're trying to discover the pain and then push through it like a bulldozer.
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We know the "techniques" he and Elizabeth were trained in, allowing them to use their bodies as sexual weaponry, thus numbing them to shame and intimacy both.
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There's a numbing sameness to the casual bloodshed here that makes the viewer almost long for the relative calm of the first film's lengthy pop culture digressions.
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"It was their approach to this that's gotten us into this situation, and their insistence on maintaining the status quo is just mind-numbing," Rogers told CNN.
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This would usually result in a day of mind-numbing torment for me and some incredibly shoddily built decks for some unlucky homeowners in the Kawartha region.
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That aside, though, Bourne is numbing in its relentless, repetitive pursuit sequences, some of which add absolutely nothing to the story except wrecked cars and extra minutes.
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Being outdoors has always been an escape for me, a respite from the aggressive pace and mind-numbing din of the big international cities I've called home.
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The museum has opened with a sometimes numbing panoply of 275 inaugural exhibitions, with a total of 1,900 works designed to show off its greatly expanded collection.
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Though he called the amount of water lost to evaporation and leakage "incredibly significant," Mr. Connor credited Glen Canyon with numbing the pain of the recent drought.
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And so, in recent years, cosmopolitan foodies have sought out everything from steamy Cantonese dim sum to smoked Peking duck to the mouth-numbing Sichuanese hot pot.
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After all this grueling work, a home may well end up stripped to its bones: STEP 5: Stepping back Seeing a house like that can be numbing.
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In case you've dialed off your capacity for human awareness, two black men were murdered by police recently—in keeping with the numbing consistency of the epidemic.
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Plus, Brave Care goes the extra step to make sure little patients aren't afraid, whether that means numbing gels for injections or offering medicine in liquid form.
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After the numbing upward grind of the past few months, even the average 6.3 percent second-half setback in those "calm" years would probably seem pretty unnerving.
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Their exchange captured the mind-numbing complexity of the conflict, the shrinking number of viable options for dealing with it, and the fast-moving nature of events.
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Whether he sees the traditional first-spouse duties — hosting, commemorating — as numbing, empty, inferior tasks or as part of the essential function of a healthy White House.
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The infomercial — that mind-numbing, long-form television commercial in which washed-up celebrities hawked juicers or fitness machines — had been around in some form for years.
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Should novelists try to counteract the numbing aspects of porn, as Gurganus advised in an interview, by giving the characters the gift of more active sex lives?
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I'm partial to food from Sichuan, famous for its ma la — the numbing and tingling spice that isn't hot itself but is often paired with hot chiles.
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Joe Schwarcz, the director of the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal, called the craze "mind numbing nonsense" in a newsletter last year.
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It's called psychic numbing — and studies show our willingness to take action to protect others even decreases when the number of victims increases from one, to two.
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The process, according to Dr. Liotta, lasts only about 2000 seconds and typically doesn't even require numbing cream, which explains its popularity over the past few years.
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It's a sad truism, or maybe a sad truth, that even the most appalling statistics about the victims of war can over time have a numbing effect.
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Horror movies are usually known for their economy, but "It" drags on nearly three hours, until a level of numbing repetition creeps into its elaborately staged scares.
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From sudden bursts of green palm trees among desert sands to rocky Martian mountain ranges, the scenery in Saudi was far less mind-numbing than I expected.
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LONDON — Since Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the mind-numbing debate has been peppered with blunders that have looked, at times, like satire.
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Foria, a vaginal insert containing cannabis oil is currently available in California; the tampon-shaped suppository claims to provide muscle relief without the mind-numbing body high.
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The sections showing the workers performing mind-numbing tasks illuminates another kind of absurdity: why are some lives deemed worthy of desire while others are seen as expendable?
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But "Fight Song," which went to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, is also outrageously grating, almost numbing in its Disney-esque simplicity and sanded-smooth edges.
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The risk is that meditation can be misused as a numbing agent—a way of making yourself more productive at the thing that is causing the world pain.
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Cosmetic surgeon Cameron Rokhsar, MD, walked me through the procedure as he and his assistant slathered numbing cream on my face while simultaneously drawing blood from my arm.
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The lowest temperature set anywhere on the planet was a numbing -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at the Soviet Union's Vostok station in central Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
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Dr. Lee carefully uses rounded scissors to cut into the mass, as Anthony keeps his eyes closed to avoid any of the numbing medication dripping into his eye.
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" To endure four times the sorrow with the deaths of the quads was numbing, she says, with her and Jason waking up daily to "raw hearts and pain.
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It's the elaborate mythology around it that proves numbing, along with the fact that virtually every attempt at eliciting laughs yields crickets at best and groans at worst.
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Staring into Morissette's Instagram is like gazing out over the ocean or watching a prism cast rainbows on a wall: It is meditative, ruminant and a little numbing.
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Gyuma is a stark black sausage, filled with beef blood, tripe and heart, heavy on bulgur wheat and contoured with emma, the Tibetan name for numbing Sichuan peppercorn.
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And those changes, coming in an age of mind-numbing congestion and heightened climate change worry, will benefit New Yorkers long after the L train shutdown is over.
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It was more that drone seemed to be leading a huge proportion of privileged young people to believe that this most pointless and mind-numbing activity was worthwhile.
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It won't be a return to the late-Obama era status quo, wherein Democrats win, propose things, and Republicans block them, in a kind of politically numbing kabuki.
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Perhaps part of 2017's numbing power has been its constant spread of events—bumpy and uneven, but panoramic—in comparison to last year's jolts and heel-turns.
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"You spray it once or twice on the head of the penis, and it absorbs really well, so a woman isn't going to experience residual numbing," he says.
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There is a numbing effect that occurs when each day is the same, when our schedules are subsumed by what feels like an endless gulf of undifferentiated time.
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It's unclear why Kennedy felt the need to escalate this, and the whole argument reminded me of a mind-numbing night learning The Settlers of Catan with friends.
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HOWEVER, if there is a single clip to be willingly entertained from this mind-numbing series, it's this one, from last night's installment featuring our queen Céline Dion.
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Frustrated by a lack of Democratic cooperation on executive branch nominations, the Republican majority on Wednesday engineered the latest twist in the struggle over mind-numbing Senate rules.
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Much of what we know about psychic numbing comes from University of Oregon psychologist Paul Slovic, who for decades has studied the intersection of emotion and decision-making.
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Episodes of mob violence occur with numbing regularity in India, typically without a great deal of scrutiny except when they are religiously motivated or involve attacks on women.
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Netflix just released an ice cream flavor globally with Ben & Jerry's, basically declaring that as a species we love using as many numbing tools at once as possible.
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Numbing medication caused her reaction In his patient's case, her reaction was caused by benzocaine, an active ingredient found in over-the-counter toothache and cold sore medicine.
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Her life, long joined unhappily with that of Boesman, another "colored" South African living under apartheid, has been a series of numbing treks from one shantytown to another.
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The movie repeatedly digresses, however, to explore several other interludes that basically parachute in, exposing tentacles of the operation in a way that's moderately interesting but dramatically numbing.
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Yes, these scandals didn't hurt Clinton the first time around — but the constant barrage of scandals created a numbing effect that weakened the power of each individual charge.
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I could spend hours examining my abuse, distanced enough by the numbing effect of the heroin that it didn't feel painful or selfish to spend my time that way.
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Well, uh, think again: PreShow will use facial recognition to make sure you're watching every mind-numbing second of those ads—and they'll automatically pause if you look away.
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The future of enterprise software won't be about complicated dashboards and mind-numbing amounts of big data; it will be about well-designed interfaces that make work a pleasure.
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It's called "psychic numbing," and it's mostly been studied in the context of genocide: Why is it that the world so often just looks on while thousands are slaughtered?
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"Before I got the procedure, I just found out that I was pregnant, so I couldn't use numbing cream or a pain killer and both are suggested," she shares.
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When we see her in present day, she is numbing herself with alcohol and partying — erratic behavior that doesn't match up with the Jessica we saw in Hannah's flashbacks.
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This freedom from want was not dependent on your SAT score or the number of hours you spent in a mind-numbing job search or passing a drug test.
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Zuckerberg's creation is no longer a social network — it has metamorphosed into a mind-numbing contagion that afflicts various segments of the American public with differing degrees of malignancy.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge: Jamie Dornan's American accent sounds like he dipped his tongue in numbing fluid, which could very well be a filming survival tactic.
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Most of the crammed-in performances at a snazzy yet soulless purple-hued church setting (the Vibiana in Los Angeles) were mediocre at best and mind-numbing at worst.
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The film, written by Chris Frisina and directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, is trying for steamy but more often achieves laughable, thanks to numbing dialogue, especially for Ms. Lucas.
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So there is a numbing that's gone on, that some of the craziest stuff that he says and does is not as noticeable because there's so much of it.
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If you're bored by the episode's final scene, between Andre and the new Empire signee, Nessa, however … well, maybe you've been partaking in some of Jamal's nerve-numbing painkillers.
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But the late nights, smoky bars, and mind-numbing conversations with patrons wore me down, and I quickly traded late nights for a daytime job as an office temp.
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"No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I'd chosen not to look at," she said.
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To finish off one hell of a mind-numbing meal, you'll probably want a nightcap—and with some weed-infused liquor, you can end the night the right way.
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There has long been a numbing calculus at work in hip-hop that has largely only afforded oxygen to one female rapper at a time, or at most, two.
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Recent headlines at Origo — once a respected online news site — were a numbing assortment of articles about migrants wreaking havoc on various European cities and conspiracies about Mr. Soros.
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Now, a World Series that seemingly has had everything — scintillating comebacks, mind-numbing heat, an offensive gesture and a record number of home runs — will have a seventh game.
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That has left midlevel employees and diplomats — including some just returning from high-level or difficult overseas assignments — to spend months performing mind-numbing clerical functions beside unpaid interns.
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Patience. Depth. A willingness to break out of an assembly-line format that has become numbing: talking heads describing developments in the case, intercut with often cheesy re-enactments.
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Our son, Johnny, has chosen the route from Minneapolis to Fort Collins; he'd like us to cut through South Dakota rather than make the mind-numbing drive across Nebraska.
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Sabaah Folayan, who directed "Whose Streets?" with Damon Davis, said she sought to avoid numbing audiences with grim statistics to instead plumb the daily lives of a few activists.
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The New York art adviser Lisa Schiff talked about how the "numbing saturation" of the art world and the pressures of globalization had created an "impasse" in today's market.
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We need to connect courageously with the rejection, the fear, the vulnerability that Trump's victory has inflicted on us, without turning away or numbing ourselves or lapsing into cynicism.
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The bits familiar from every other family trip comedy turn up with numbing predictability: the wretched hotel, the overheated minivan, the stops at tawdry roadside attractions, the vomit scene.
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Lo-TEK, available from Taschen, $50.00In today's mind-numbing digital world, author Julia Watson takes a look at low-tech, sustainable architecture and how human ingenuity adapts to nature.
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"Before I got the procedure, I just found out that I was pregnant, so I couldn't use numbing cream or a pain killer and both are suggested," she wrote.
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Indeed, whether Trump is mentally ill or simply unbound, his provocations can serve a purpose for the Republican Party, numbing the country to a tide of less flamboyant outrages.
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The repetitiveness of the work, and the lack of contact with those who will be on the receiving end of it, has a way of numbing our moral sensibilities.
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If you have the right dose, you'll go into the "K-hole" that you read about, where you'll get good hallucinations and a numbing sensation in the arms and legs.
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The problem is that we have an educational system that's based on taking our natural penchant for exploration and fashioning it into a willingness to take on mind-numbing routine.
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In one experiment, researchers found that activating mirror neurons while numbing other parts of the prefrontal cortex actually made people more generous and ready to donate money for a cause.
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After yet another day of mind-numbing monotony at work, the last thing you want to do is cook a meal that is long on prep and short on flavor.
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And I'm starting to fear at this point that the show's producers can't figure out a way to move forward that doesn't involve a long, gradually numbing checklist of brutality.
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Though he offered words of comfort on Thursday, the comfort feels thin as he continues to ignore the glaring issues that have led to a numbing cycle of gun violence.
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The flexible tube was used to administer a combination of pain-relieving medications designed to block pain impulses from reaching my brain, mostly numbing the lower part of my body.
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The puzzles themselves are numbing mishmashes of flashing tiles, icons and feverish streams of binary, hints whispering through the madness, their inherent simplicity masked by the breath-taking visual chaos.
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This mind-numbing, 11-minute timelapse shows him spending an entire work day painstakingly reassembling a five-pound mis-printed note that the Bank of England shredded to tiny bits.
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I realize that maybe doesn't sound very funny, but trust me, at a certain point, you laugh because your numbing corporate job has sapped you of the ability to cry.
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To feel like you're finally getting somewhere, only to end up back in the same place is probably one of the most mind numbing experiences one could ever go through.
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The heady "numbing and spicy" broth played perfect assist, the mix of chili, garlic, and Sichuan peppercorn mingling beautifully with the juicy, umami-rich "head-guts," as they're sometimes called.
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Chuck had that numbing power that could only be understood through the "Oh shit" look on the face of the men who had just experienced it for the first time.
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Global Soccer LONDON — If anyone tells you that Champions League soccer can be numbing and predictable, remind them of this week, when Europe had its own version of March Madness.
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Some of this is human and necessary, but too much is unhealthy and numbing -- and how we find that balance will be one of the many challenges of this moment.
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While some might see such repetition as mind-numbing, he finds it inspirational, so much so that crucial movements like "swipe" and "flood" became key concepts as well as titles.
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"It is soul-numbing to play that thing," Mr. Wachner, the church's hard-driving director of music and arts, said of the digital instrument in Trinity Church, on Lower Broadway.
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"What the report portrays, in numbing legalese and revealing footnotes, is a breathtaking culture of lying and impunity, distrust and double-dealing," wrote Susan B. Glasser of The New Yorker.
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The confused ranting feels at times like the dramatic equivalent of a nervous breakdown, and, added to Joseph K.'s actual trial, makes for a mind-numbing, drawn-out whole.
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But as eager as banks are to work with newcomers in the space, navigating such a large and complicated organization can often be mind-numbing for the early-stage companies.
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There is only so long, in a series about bondage and rape, that you can string out the cycle of raising and dashing hopes without numbing or traumatizing your audience.
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The food is billed as "coastal Mexican," with delicious fish tacos, tuna ceviche and "daily escape" drink specials, such as a tart, $6 margarita rimmed with lip-numbing chipotle salt.
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In all-night sessions over hotpots and baijiu (a potent alcoholic spirit), he conspired with local residents Xu Fan and Yang Wen to make this mind-numbing cuisine even hotter.
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While this occasionally descends into what feels like a numbing list of names and organizations, Nelson largely succeeds in throwing light on the vast power of her cast of antagonists.
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There were a lot of the usual mind-numbing blockbusters and sequels that always bring in the box-office coin, but very few of those stay with you for long.
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By the time his movie "Outrage" — not part of this series — had its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, his penchant for abstract brutality had reached almost numbing levels.
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In the negative sense of the word, I find recording instrumental parts tedious in a way that is unfortunately not mind-numbing, and recording vocals both emotionally and physically draining.
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The long-term impacts of numbing move us away from the very aliveness we are fighting for, that erotic level of presence, alertness, and feeling our miraculous existence in real time.
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Something so mind-numbing yet unforgettable that you wish you could bend Heaven and Earth just to find some sort of magical brush with which you could scrub your mind clean?
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In terms of information saturation, 1958 had no idea, but as far as technology being this maddening, numbing chaos of shrieks and buzzes and drones, things really could have been worse.
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If the original version is saturated in electro-pop brightness, the rework goes darker with mind-numbing bass and thick synth stabs, grounding it while still maintaining the song's uplifting message.
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But watching an event like Charlottesville unfold in real time can be numbing, especially for those of us who couldn't participate and/or don't have a strong support network at home.
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The results can last anywhere from six months to two years and, if you ask your derm to apply a little numbing cream before the procedure, you'll only feel a pinch.
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Poetry had to unsettle, subvert, with luck destroy, whatever stopped human beings thinking freely and acting justly, as he understood justice: consumerism, militarism, modern psychiatry, ossified institutions, brain-numbing new technologies.
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By exclusively focusing on nameless extras being burned alive over and over again, "The Bells" dehumanized the citizens of King's Landing, desensitizing and numbing viewers to their tragic loss of life.
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Mr Clavin, whose previous book explored the legend of Dodge City, takes a swipe at an earlier Hickok biography as a "somewhat mind-numbing saga of facts and disclaimers and rebuttals".
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NLP in effect can provide those charged with finding redundant rules with a virtual map by which to navigate the otherwise mind-numbing complexity of rule making verbiage and overlapping jurisdictions.
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Winter is here, and as evidenced by the bone-numbing winds that feel like a massive slap in the face when it lashes out, snow season won't die down anytime soon.
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Trump is numbing us to bizarre behavior, and when he pokes us hard enough that we can feel it despite the numbness it's natural to wonder if we're just being manipulated.
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Between the anticipation of what's to come, the noise, the crowds and mind-numbing delays, commuting to or from work can be one of the most stressful parts of your day.
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Now Facebook's relevancy-sorted feed makes it easy to get sucked into the latest scandal, fragmenting our frustration, or numbing us to fire within through cute baby photos and inane gossip.
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Perhaps most importantly, it encourages commercial and cultural exchange, and removes a source of grievance from people otherwise forced to endure long queues at embassies and mind-numbing piles of paperwork.
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That will go some way toward numbing the pain of the $980 million net loss that the company suffered in the first quarter as the slump in oil-drilling activity worsened.
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They argue that providing some place for disabled Americans to go, even if it is a workshop where we perform repetitive and mind-numbing labor, is better than sitting at home.
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Our schedule was jammed with politicians, diplomats, ministers and editors from Indonesia and Australia, important men who were used to occupying space, time and attention, and would talk at numbing length.
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The bumps that bother Diane the most are the ones that cover her stomach area, and obviously the rough, fleshy dots on her face, so Dr. Lee starts numbing and nipping.
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It's a little pinch-y and painful for Kal-Elle, who's not under and anesthesia or numbing medication, but she knows that the results will be well worth the momentary discomfort.
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More often, they said, what they felt was a numbing familiarity: What the rest of America was now being exposed to are words and thoughts they have heard their whole lives.
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A death in the Bordelon family brings three not-very-close adult siblings back to the old homestead — in this case, in Louisiana — where long-established tensions flare with numbing frequency.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Art fairs can often feel like animated GIFs, their endlessly cycling patterns of repeating graphics occasionally catching viewers' eyes, but always eventually numbing their minds.
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The mind numbing beach vacation sampling (used on prior albums but perfected on Dots and Loops) makes you feel like you're in the 50s version of what the future looks like.
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We must remain resolved in the face of great uncertainty, follow our north star, and avoid easy retreat into the numbing embrace of nihilism, along with its cousins, irony and cynicism.
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There's a numbing effect to the all-encompassing cruelty we're inundated with on a daily basis in the US. The exhibition refocuses these broad topics and events through specific, personal stories.
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Instead of driving an hour from one town to the next across the frozen Iowa tundra, the high-paced Super Tuesday sprint requires time-consuming flights and mind-numbing logistical planning.
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For in the end, what will illuminate this newly acquired knowledge — and make cocktail-party conversation fun, rather than a numbing act of recitation — is the unique bend of your mind.
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Such respect for rules and punctuality is something Germans are good at, said several attendees, who clustered in the glow of the small stage, stomping their feet against the numbing cold.
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Some other options that can help reduce pain are applying topical numbing medication to the vaginal opening and using a narrow vaginal speculum that is about the size of a finger.
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Nevertheless, South Korea subsequently said that it was working with the US and allied powers to craft sanctions that would inflict "bone-numbing pain" in response to North Korea's nuclear provocations.
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Once we consult and decide what we're going to attack, then I'm gonna kind of do some markings and measurements on the face, and then it goes into applying the numbing cream, I apply the saran wrap in a certain way, just piece by piece, and then I do apply the towel over the skin, which creates a little bit of a heat, and I believe allows the numbing cream to kind of penetrate a little bit more.
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The postgame news conference can be a numbing rite of passage, when aching and bruised and torn men must take a round of questions before leaving their season in the rearview mirror.
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Then we came across one that appeared to fit the description, but a tentative lick soon proved it inedible, as it left a tingling, numbing sensation on the tongue announcing its danger.
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Using a coolant roller as a numbing agent, he proceeded to administer 35 injections in a grid formation — five rows, seven injections a row — on the top frontal portion of my scalp.
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The duck intestine and beef stomach was a bit tough for my slightly namby pamby British palate, but was given a pleasingly numbing twang of taste through the bubbling hot pot soup.
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"No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I'd chosen not to look at," she said of their relationship.
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Ice-cold bolts of ecstasy shoot like novas through the glamorous muddle and murk of "Lazarus," the great-sounding, great-looking and mind-numbing new musical built around songs by David Bowie.
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We've all been there — a missed flight or delay leads to hours of mind-numbing boredom in the terminal — unless overpriced food and stale air is your idea of a good time.
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The Warriors had already proven themselves to be a near-unbeatable super-team; adding Mr Cousins to the mix risked turning the entire 2018-19 season into a mind-numbing coronation ceremony.
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There are no grunting weightlifters, no clanging coming from the squat rack, and you can't even hear a hint of the mind-numbing pump-up music pouring out of the gym's speakers.
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A survivor reading that image could easily be triggered; even if you're not a survivor, reading multiple graphic images like that all in a row can be emotionally trying or even numbing.
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Robot vacuums have seriously taken over the internet, but vacuuming is such a mind-numbing chore that it's easy to see why no one can shut up about these devices (including us).
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During that time span, we had to navigate lots of appointments and a mind-numbing amount of paperwork, the majority of which needed to be signed in the presence of a notary.
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Rummage around their home and it's all there: the agreements and the arguments; the hobbies and the hang-ups; the unique neuroses and the utterly mind-numbing ordinariness of an everyday existence.
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"Before I got the procedure, I just found out that I was pregnant, so I couldn't use numbing cream or a pain killer and both are suggested," she said at the time.
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Menu items like the scorching hot chicken wings, dusted with Szechuan peppercorns and chilies, are an enjoyably mouth-numbing experience; so are the chewy green tea noodles, which will caffeinate your appetite.
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Synthetic drugs—like pitocin, the drug most commonly administered in hospitals to speed up labor—mimic oxytocin, creating stronger, more frequent contractions than the natural hormone, often leading to a numbing epidural.
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Catherine Shepherd stars as Sally, a marketing executive who has a boring boyfriend (Alex Macqueen), numbing job and, soon after the show begins, a new girlfriend (Davis), all at the same time.
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But while psychic numbing appears to be a stable component of human psychology, know that there are ways to fight through it, to help us connect with the millions who need help.
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For a guy who once clung to the side of an Airbus 400 to execute a mind-numbing opening stunt for "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation," Cruise's devotion to total realism isn't surprising.
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Linda Greenhouse So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative.
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A more successful medical application was discovered by an ophthalmologist friend, Karl Koller, the first to figure out that cocaine's numbing effects could be useful as a local anesthetic in eye operations.
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This habit would continue for years as I spent my nights in graduate school numbing my grief and loneliness with chambray shirts and floral dresses the way others might abuse alcohol or heroin.
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Now that my cyst was gone, sure, I may have had a black eye because of the numbing and pressure, but I just put a Band-Aid over my stitches and went out.
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Applying capsaicin directly to the skin in high doses can overwhelm the receptors, numbing or damaging the nerves so that they no longer release inflammatory chemicals or send pain signals to the brain.
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G. Addiction has a sense of repetition: mind-numbing, soul-sucking, life-destroying repetition punctuated by the chaos of withdrawal, or intrusions of reality in the form of death, family, or the law.
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"We are willing to do the un-fun, mind-numbing work of making [Matrix] highly reliable, and robust and redundant and able to sustain failures — multiple failures — and still work," Van Buiten says.
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"There is no constant value for a human life," University of Oregon psychologist Paul Slovic, the leading expert on psychic numbing, told me last year in an interview I can't stop thinking about.
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That high productivity also took endless, mind-numbing work: to prepare and tend the fields, keep up the homestead and defend the surpluses needed to feed everyone from one harvest to the next.
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Often transliterated as kung pao on American Chinese menus, it's a staple in the States that has roots in Sichuan, where it's electrified with numbing Sichuan peppercorns and a punch of red chilies.
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But when The Undertaker's music hits in season-finale settings like Wrestlemania, Taker's smoggy, bone-chilling entrance is almost numbing while he slowly emerges to the tune of church organs and lightning cracks.
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It's truly mind-numbing to try to come up with a more profoundly mundane use of VR. "But they'll have stats, and you can talk to your friends from far away," you say.
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Of course, the practice of spitting is widespread, and necessary for the survival and wellbeing of the somms and enthusiasts who regularly taste a mind-numbing amount of wine at vineyards and festivals.
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His speed has not fully recovered, and each time his trail leg clears a hurdle, his right thigh slaps against his abdomen, leaving him with a numbing, tugging feeling and the occasional spasm.
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Strong words, but the incompetence and immobility of the governing class to take meaningful, realistic action is part of the frustration people feel across the country after the latest numbing weekend of terror.
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Best of all is a cold salad in which tiny cubes of custardy tofu make friends with tiny cubes of crisp, slightly sticky Japanese mountain yam, topped with a numbing spicy chili paste.
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Government as a service means all the mind-numbing administrative [duties] can be reduced and in many many places replaced so that we can invest in providing support to those who need it.
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It is flat, largely featureless, the vegetable fields and grazing acres dotted now and then by a factory or a forbidding convenience store with men in front swigging Gatorade or more numbing beverages.
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It may be my favorite Le Sia sauce, although it's a close call between that and its near relative, "numbing and spicy," which is propelled into tingling ma la territory by Sichuan peppercorns.
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Lear" can grow numbing, it's because at a certain point Uglow finds herself — as biographers of such social, peripatetic figures often do — writing a lot of variations on: "And then he went here.
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And it was as advertised, full of intrigue and juice and all the other numbing and tantalizing details of life someplace I've never been and hope never to be — on the campaign trail.
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It wasn't habitable, so we kept living in our Crown Heights rental as we figured out how to do the work, which was tied up by expired permits and mind-numbing construction bureaucracy.
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It is, after all, built on a concept that could have made for an ace sketch but instead takes up nearly five derrière-numbing hours, split in two installments of two "episodes" each.
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Cooper is a top DOD official working on Russia and Ukraine and reading her testimony... Well, if you want a nitty gritty, look at my numbing methods behind how the government spends money.
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But as details of Trump's Russia connections have dribbled out over the last year and a half, each revelation has led to a familiar, numbing cycle of shock, impotent anger, and, finally, resignation.
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Still, those action scenes -- while plentiful -- aren't staged with much imagination, and a steady diet of blunt-object blows to the head and kicks to the groin eventually becomes more numbing than exciting.
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"Nevicata" was riveting: Images of snowflakes falling from an ashen heaven are conveyed in the piano through numbing, repeated midrange tones, surrounded by elusive chords and, at the end, skittish, almost jazzy flourishes.
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During Impossible Foods' event, I tried out some Impossible Pork Banh Mi, Impossible Pork Char Siu Buns, Impossible Pork Dan Dan Noodles, Impossible Pork Katsu, and Impossible Pork Sweet, Sour and Numbing Meatballs.
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It is for her daughter to fill in those gaps for us, with accounts of the kind of numbing, oppressive and outright abusive existence that so many people accept as a life sentence.
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In the case of implementing Positive Train Control, U.S. policy is so diffuse, the details so mind-numbing and contradictory, and the funding so vaporous, that we've erected barriers to common-sense policy.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Dimayuga is the executive chef of Mission Chinese Food New York, the cool temple of Sichuan cuisine on the Lower East Side known for its ferocious, tongue-numbing fare.
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I couldn't settle down to read or write, and in my anxiety I found myself mindlessly scrolling through two particular shopping websites, numbing my fears with pictures of shoes, clothes, purses and jewelry.
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And the searing, face-burning winds that arrived this week, and the numbing, record-breaking temperatures that were soon expected, brought a level of risk for the homeless that has rarely been seen.
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"Don't move," he said and, before I had a chance to grasp that this meant there was to be no shot of anesthesia or numbing agent, I felt his scalpel open me up.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the tragedy was "mind-numbing" and directed the federal health minister to facilitate transfer of those injured to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a group of government hospitals.
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These moves were relatively gradual, lacking the spikes of volatility that marked previous shifts thanks to the numbing effect of the trillions that central banks poured into financial markets after the 21 global crisis.
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The hand-to-hand combat is certainly bracing -- and at times darkly funny -- in the early going, but then the guns start blazing, in a way that grows repetitive to the point of numbing.
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But they are at war over which has the best Sichuan hotpot—a type of DIY-cooking that involves boiling vegetables and slices of meat in a communal broth with chillies and numbing peppercorns.
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Chance's vocal calling cards — those "yups" and chirps — sound like affirmations now, signs that a kid from a city with a mind-numbing murder rate can still turn out okay, successful, even wildly happy.
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Instead of forgetting their failures by numbing the pain, they're trying to etch their failures into their brain so they can ensure they learn from them, rather than be pushed into darkness by them.
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Kim Kardashian famously underwent a vampire facial in 2013, but said the procedure was uncomfortable because she was pregnant with son North at the time, and could not get the usual numbing treatments beforehand.
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The show seemingly recognizes that an endless cycle of June escaping and being recaptured would eventually grow numbing, so it needs something else to turn to when June is mostly whiling away her time.
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While drug use has always existed in human society, a sudden, widespread increase in addiction, suicide and multiple-drug overdose cannot just be a result of flashy ads and increased availability of numbing substances.
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But monkeys have a tendency to lose interest in a task if they can't move, and numbing their arms with a nerve block could throw new and confusing variables into the mix, Nuyujukian says.
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At this year's TED 2016 conference, the artist Sanford Biggers took the stage and showed a 16-second video, BAM, which viscerally highlights the mind-numbing nature of police violence against the black community.
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Durex and Trojan offer condoms that contain between 4 and 5 percent benzocaine, a numbing agent that will reduce your penis's sensitivity and enable you to slow down the clock during your next session.
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Popovich credits a limited scope for what the game would be for their ability to stay on track and keep a schedule that, even in the early days, didn't push into endless, numbing crunch.
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I recently saw a friend share an essay on Facebook that argued that our medical industry is killing our geniuses and prophets — that psychiatric pharmaceuticals are numbing our Vincent van Goghs and Sylvia Plaths.
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But hidden among the numbing statistics of death and destruction is another insidious scourge: Desperate families are increasingly selling their daughters off as child brides or letting their boys be recruited as child soldiers.
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In the series, debuting Sunday, Zendaya stars as Rue, a high school junior committed to numbing herself with vodka and whatever drugs she can get her hands on, after a failed stint in rehab.
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In normal times, my husband and I lean heavily on an extended network of caregivers—grandparents, friends, babysitters, and daycare—for help with the monumental, sometimes mind-numbing task of caring for young children.
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" In 19003, when he was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Simon followed a squad of homicide detectives in Baltimore, "chronicling the mind-numbing violence that has become synonymous with virtually every American city.
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The patient was seen at Rhode Island emergency department by doctors, Otis Warren and Benjamin Blackwood, who determined the problem appeared to stem from a numbing agent the woman had used the night before.
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While there's a comical aspect to the gruesomeness in the early going, as is so often the case the approach becomes numbing through repetition, until some of the laughs come in the wrong places.
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Growing up in East Germany, in what she would describe as a dictatorship, Ms. Merkel became accustomed to regurgitating nonsensical Soviet platitudes, or listening to the mind-numbing decrees broadcast daily on state radio.
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The authors wrote: The presence of menthol in cigarettes leads to a cooling, numbing sensation in the throat that counteracts the telltale burning of traditional cigarettes, creating a more comfortable puffing experience, Flores says.
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The sale was controversial for a couple of reasons: that mind-numbing number itself, but also the fact that there are a lot of questions — and serious doubts — about the painting's authenticity, restoration, and provenance.
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The numbing cream I prepped with was slightly less effective than an expired baby aspirin, and the lack of a strip for the wax meant that when the going got tough, the wax gave up.
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The entire queue was designed to support around a six-hour wait time, if needed — a mind-numbing prospect – but it makes the importance of a line as an attraction unto itself even more important.
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So, for now, the minivans return to the depot around midday for shift swaps, so the backup drivers get a break from what can be a fairly mind-numbing task: monitoring a self-driving car.
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After sterilizing his leg, and setting up a tripod (to document his stupidity), Nick sliced into his skin (with no numbing medication at all) and attempted to pop the gummy lipoma out of his leg.
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After shaving, disinfecting and numbing the area with local anesthetic, a piercer would make an inch-and-a-half-long incision, creating a tiny pocket to slide the device into before stitching it all up.
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Besides the obvious legal implications, it seems hard to act when you're doing take after take of mind-numbing drugs designed to make you care so little about life that you forget you're in pain.
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If anything though, Reputation — with its subterranean bass notes and lyrical fixations on seduction, alcohol, and the soul-numbing isolation of fame — runs more along the lines of late-night libertines Zayn and the Weeknd.
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Cocaine as we know it, a bitter, numbing powder called cocaine hydrochloride, has been around since only the mid-1800s, when it was marketed in toothache drops, sinus pills and nausea powders for pain relief.
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"No longer numbing myself with smoking, drinking and too much work, I was becoming more and more aware of things that I'd chosen not to look at," Bündchen recalls in PORTER's Spring issue cover story.
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It's all a bit much and comes to be rather numbing, but ultimately you forgive Gibson for his ghoulish indulgences because the battle scenes are beautifully photographed and the ensemble cast rises to the occasion.
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The holidays are generally a stressful time, thanks in no small part to the mind-numbing task of having to think of (and not to mention, afford) the perfect presents for our friends and family.
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The steel, copper, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, fiberglass and other raw materials to build all these turbines, batteries and transmission lines would require mind-numbing quantities of earth removal, mining, processing, smelting and manufacturing.
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John Bel Edwards to the local police and elected officials vowed a complete and transparent investigation and appealed to the city — after a numbing series of high-profile, racially charged incidents elsewhere — to remain calm.
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The clip features a time-lapse of Johnson and his team collecting plastic on a Hawaiian beach and creating a colorful, yet mind-numbing mosaic out of the garbage that once floated in the ocean.
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" Comey on the numbing effect of these times: "I keep saying to Republicans, 'Close your eyes and imagine Barack Obama waking up some morning and saying that somebody he doesn't like should be in jail.
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I don't mean to suggest that medication is for everyone, or to deny that some medications have the effect of numbing you, of stripping away your spark or making you feel like you've lost yourself.
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For a British public that has often tuned out from the mind-numbing complexities of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, recent government statements, amplified by raucous newspaper headlines, have finally become comprehensible — and alarming.
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Yet Mr. Montoya, a 28-year-old immigrant's son, recently took a job at a lettuce-packing facility, where it is wet, loud, freezing — and much of the work is physically taxing, even mind-numbing.
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So in this instance, the familiar, mind-numbing cold of World Series games has given way to brain-melting heat, though the temperature should drop at least a few degrees as the game goes on.
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But before you slip all the way into numbing paralysis or do something rash, let's return to the piece of advice that's been shared more than any other during the COVID-19 outbreak: Don't panic.
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But the numbing persistence of such "mistreatment" — which has as much to do with colonial geopolitics as with garden-variety anti-black and anti-immigrant racism — is not necessarily a testament to the musical's insight.
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Since the Drug Enforcement Agency reports that Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid with near immediate anesthetic, pain numbing effects can be 50 times more powerful than heroin, that shipment was enough to kill seven million people.
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The novel's protagonists resist the numbing effects of automated surveillance capitalism through their participation in an Occupy-esque protest, deploying Tarot cards and (perhaps) gentle mind-reading powers to resist the invasive specter of technology.
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Even though some rules "pushed the edges of legal authority," the Obama administration mustered a stronger defense by assembling "thousands of pages of support and technical analysis, laid out in mind-numbing detail," he said.
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Far away from FIFA's glass-encased and Bond-villainesque Zurich offices, but somewhere among the shopping malls, mind-numbing traffic and tropical heat of Jakarta, you can find evidence of the international soccer organization's inept governance.
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"It is numbing how an atmosphere that endangers the well-being and safety of another person could occur within an organization that prided itself on commitment to each other and to its community," President Barron said.
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Diamond is one of a handful of plastic surgeons and cosmetic dermatologists who've made names for themselves on Instagram for their ability to work what looks like magic with nothing more than numbing cream and syringes.
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Though Dr. Shamban assured an understandably nervous Christiansen that the process would just feel like continuous "flicking" on the skin and skipped the typical numbing cream, Christiansen said she found it more painful than she'd expected.
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"This was in a fraternity house, but don't mistake the fact of it being at a fraternity house for the chilling, numbing, facts, which are in this investigative report by the grand jury," Kline said Saturday.
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Repeated exposure to messages about animal cruelty may also, in the long run, result in the audience getting accustomed to such messages and they may eventually begin to ignore it due to emotional numbing or apathy.
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In most cases, a numbing cream will be applied all over the face before the treatment (which takes around 40 minutes to do its job), then the therapist will zap your whole face at least twice.
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Kim Kardashian famously got one in 2013, but said it was "really rough and painful," as she had just learned she was pregnant, and was therefore unable to get a numbing cream or pain killer beforehand.
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Common cold, pain inextremity and paresthesia (tingling or numbing) were the most common adverse events in the study, with a higher frequency in both tanezumab treatment groups compared to placebo-treated patients, Pfizer and Lilly said.
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At the end, the camera lingers on the faces of some of the workers, and you are invited to wonder, Do they all suffer from the separation between their numbing work lives and their creative passions?
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For 40-odd years, the flags have been exposed to the full fury of the moon's environment – alternating 14 days of searing sunlight and 100° C heat with 14 days of numbing-cold -150° C darkness.
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This is a public health problem now, and, as we move into a promised future of still-increasing urbanization and density, it's poised to become a much, much worse problem: a collective numbing of human souls.
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Because it front-loads all of this (and because it trusts players to be able to follow along without a mind numbing tutorial), Breath of the Wild can immediately begin challenging you to do incredible things.
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Still, he had learned firsthand to steer well clear of any hurricane above a Category 1; the dramatic warnings by government officials and forecasters can be tiresome and numbing, he said, but they are worth heeding.
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At trial, the presentation and admission of documents can be a mind-numbing process, but once the documents are in evidence, good prosecutors will be able to weave the documents into a livelier tale of wrongdoing.
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Covering local news, as its reporters do, can mean sitting through hours of mind-numbing City Council hearings or leaving your family in the middle of the night to race to the scene of a shooting.
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Sure, there's a brain-numbing tutorial to kick the game off (which feels very dated), but there's little-to-no explanation about who these characters are, where they are, or why they're doing what they're doing.
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Kellough said she initially thought that she wasn't allowed during the procedure because of the numbing gas her daughter would need, but the office manager said the issue was that Haehlen didn't want her to breastfeed.
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Photo: Jamie McCarthy (Getty)Massive data breaches have become a sad, numbing reality, where a hack or a compromised server leads to millions of peoples' private data becoming public or landing in the hands of thieves.
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And this one maybe more than the others was really, really special and challenging in that respect, where we follow a character that is so wounded and that is hurting herself and numbing herself with alcohol.
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Granted, it's much more fun to pick out onesies than adult diapers — but you'll be much more comfortable if you have items like a sitz bath, witch hazel pads and numbing spray, readily available at home.
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A numbing torrent of largely unidentified film clips and poorly labeled commentary, Rob Garver's overstuffed tribute to the life and work of America's best-known — and most written about — film critic is at times barely coherent.
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This group is often presented with few options for coping beyond breathing exercises, IV drugs, and a lower-body-numbing epidural; in large part that's because of the complexities of conducting medical studies on pregnant women.
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It is certainly a critical time for LACMA to consider this approach in a city that is not only sprawling but increasingly neighborhood-constrained given the problematics of public transportation, and the mind-numbing traffic issues.
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Numbing temperatures have also had some unusual effects: cold-shocked iguanas fell out of trees in Florida and wildlife officials in the state said they had rescued more than 200 stunned sea turtles from freezing waters.
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The Texas Rangers first baseman pulled off some mind- and groin-numbing feats of gymnastics yesterday to keep a foot on the bag as Matt Chapman hustled down the first base line to beat the throw.
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An assembly line of Three-and-D swingman may be great for offensive efficiency and salary cap gymnastics, but it will also be a little numbing, perhaps even dull, because basketball, in part, is an imaginative exercise.
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So cancel that mind-numbing conference call you have scheduled for Tuesday morning and move it to Thursday afternoon instead, and embrace your summer lull as preparation for the fall burst of energy you know will follow.
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"The volatility we see from morning tweets, or stances that vary from time to time — I wouldn't say the world is numb or numbing to that, but the positive things that happen are overwhelmingly that," he said.
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After numbing Melissa with local anesthesia (which means Melissa's awake — eek), Dr. Lee cuts into the lipoma — and immediately, the top layer of pus starts flowing out (you might want to cover your eyes for this part).
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The incongruity of squaring how good the match was without yielding to the pressure of declaring it an all-timer caused exactly the sort of mind-numbing argument various fandoms, sports or otherwise, tend to descend into.
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Partly, that's down to the frigid temperatures of the New York winter, masterfully captured in Brandon Trost's cinematography, and which gives the film anambiance of dead, empty calm — you can practically feel the frost numbing your cheeks.
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The game restored a measure of order to the N.F.C. East, with the Cowboys (53-3) winning a second consecutive game after a numbing three-game losing streak foiled the team's 3-0 start to the season.
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Read more: A mother is warning others about life-threatening tick bites after her 2-year-old was hospitalized: 'He wailed because it hurt so badly to be touched'After numbing Prater's eye, the doctor removed the tick.
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Biles is able to combine exquisite execution with mind-numbing difficulty that puts her so far above the rest of the competition that she has won three straight world all-around titles and four U.S. national titles.
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A president who shaped his first three years in office trying to sell Americans on obscure corporate tax provisions, minute details of tariffs and the rollback of mind-numbing regulations has a new approach: Keep it simple.
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Amid a numbing succession of mass shootings, gun control groups outspent the National Rifle Association in the midterm election cycle, federal filings and additional reporting indicate, upending the usual order in the partisan battle over gun use.
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"It's going to be a long game when you walk people and make errors," Oregon State Coach Pat Casey said after his team hit four batters, walked three, committed three errors and threw a numbing 187 pitches.
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What makes this especially mind-numbing is that Exxon knew for decades that its business was altering the climate but repeatedly deceived the public, just as the tobacco companies knew their cigarettes caused cancer but denied it.
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Dr. Jeanniton adds that "a needle could be inserted anywhere from 50 to 100 times over the face compared to 5 to 20 times for traditional Botox injections," so numbing cream is commonly applied before the treatment.
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Although the headlines are jumbled, you can make out the originals if you listen closely — but the narrator's monotonous voice is soporific; the back-and-forth, lackluster pull of the same four or so strings mind-numbing.
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Even setting aside the latent toxic masculinity and gender roles lurking in this question, I'm pressed to come up with a good reason that anyone—man, woman, or child—would need chemical numbing for something this minor.
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The impact is overwhelming and somewhat numbing, but the urgency of the work is palpable, as the accumulation of objects stands in for the masses of refugees and the flood of information that has drowned out their identities.
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If you visit Bossavy, you'll get a gentle, non-invasive procedure that uses mineral-based pigment, a low frequency tiny needle, a unique injection technique (what Bossavy coined "NanoColor Infusion")... plus some numbing cream for a comfortable experience.
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He didn't administer any sort of numbing, but instead passed me a pair of protective glasses so that I could watch the first 15 minutes of Oceans 8 while Dr. Apa and a dental assistant worked their magic.
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As another album cycle kicks into overdrive with the forthcoming release of his excellent Clipper Ship (which is streaming below), Toth has done his best to disrupt the mind-numbing repetition of album promotion and all it entails.
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The Democratic presidential primary debate was like an amusement park ride that begins with a slow and creaky uphill climb, then careens at high speeds while veering left and right until it comes to a fairly numbing end.
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For a struggling, emerging country such as Ukraine in 2010-2014 (the years Yanukovych served as president), where the average monthly wage is around $200, spending $60 million on a foreign political consultancy is a mind-numbing sum.
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We are disrupting our daily routine to denormalize a numbing cycle of tragedy –– one that includes not just mass shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but also everyday domestic violence and suicides and homicides.
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The 2018 playoffs and World Series offered a parade of twitchy managers yanking their starting pitchers after four innings, summoning a parade of faceless relievers to throw one mind-numbing fastball after another for fractions of an inning.
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He has never spearheaded an electoral campaign, and has already stumbled as he tries to negotiate the mind-numbing complexities of Iraqi politics for a vote that will test his own political acumen in a challenging security environment.
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Through a numbing number of vigils and marches and protests, they have used social media and the press to raise awareness on an issue that the government was all too happy to let simmer just below the lid.
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It t was the first time I ever had stitches and numbing in my face, and I was like, I don't want any more treatments — but I knew I had to do it 'cause it was a good opportunity.
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This was the meta-narrative of Bill Clinton's speech: He managed to sugarcoat a numbing recitation of how hard Hillary Clinton has worked, how many policies she's learned and changed, with just enough love story to keep people listening.
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We know this intuitively — think of the depressing office cubicle, which has spawned its own genre of literature, or the mind-numbing gray crisscross of highways — but the pointless frenzy of modern life makes it frighteningly easy to forget.
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The final bowl features kale, marinated kelp, seasoned white sweet potato, roasted chicken, tomatoes, cabbage, wild rice, a lime-cashew dressing and two seasoning blends, including Momofuku's Tingly Seasoned Salt, which incorporates a small amount of numbing Sichuan peppercorns.
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Unlike some anal lubes, this product has no numbing agents, so if you are concerned about pain during anal sex, double down on foreplay to get your butthole nice and ready (butt plugs are a great place to start).
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Numbing herself with self-pity and chardonnay, Bridget gets dragged (actually, shanghaied) to an outdoor music festival, where she pretty literally stumbles into bed with Jack (Patrick Dempsey, yes, still McDreamy), who turns out to be a wealthy entrepreneur.
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Daniel Son; Necklace Don is brief but brilliant, packed with so many punchlines and Daliesque images (a mansion that exists only to shoot dice in) that, if the tape were any longer, they might have a numbing, paralytic effect.
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Instead of asking how people are getting addicted and what can be done to stop them, we need to ask why people are turning to the mind-numbing effects of opioids and what we could do to help them.
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I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain, so to speak, and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
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We know doing your taxes isn't the most glamorous way to spend your time, but we found amazing deals on tax software from Quicken, Intuit, TurboTax, H&R Block, and more to guide you through the mind-numbing process.
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Don't Make a Move When the boy was brought to the procedure room, the surgeon explained that he was going to put numbing medicine all around the bump in the boy's neck and take out a piece of it.
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Glossing over how tasteless and cardboard-box-like DiGiorno pizza turns out when cooked in a microwave for 12 minutes, the pea-za tasted as you would expect: like a soul-numbing heap of heated mayonnaise and overcooked peas.
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Meanwhile, the audience was left to suffer at the hands of the mind numbing warm-up act, who larked about in the arena telling shit jokes and throwing around Haribo like the second-rate panto performer he probably is.
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"Top Off" is the first song from the forthcoming DJ Khaled album, "Father of Asahd," and once you swipe away the numbing hook and pseudo-verse from Future, there, plain as day, is an impressive Jay-Z/Beyoncé duet.
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This season may yet be the franchise's worst of this century, but for one day at least, the Giants purposefully and thoughtfully tried to breathe life into what has been a numbing, dispiriting experience for players, coaches and fans.
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One of the objectives of BNY Mellon's bot strategy is to help the organization "get rid of the mind numbing tasks" so that employees could focus on different activities, said Doug Shulman, senior executive vice president at BNY Mellon.
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More than anything, it is the deep relationships between instructors and students, many of whom grow up with no male figure at home, that hold the key to ending the soul-numbing disenfranchisement that so many young men experience at school.
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Globetrotting graffiti artists arrived every year for Art Basel and plastered the warehouse walls with mind-numbing color; hipster-owned restaurants that took a page from those in Williamsburg and Silver Lake opened; and international galleries with haughty galleristas decamped.
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Well, work in Ford's plants was extremely unpleasant—workers spent all day at mind-numbing tasks on the new-fangled assembly line—and when Ford set the wage at the rate workers could get anywhere else, turnover was extremely high.
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While there are downtown choreographers who present their latest mind-numbing trivia like constructions of historic ambition, Ms. Tanowitz is the opposite: an unusually gifted and original dance-maker who makes pieces that seem elaborately uninviting and brilliantly minor-league.
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"It was mind numbing," Brighton tells me over Skype from LA. "For weeks, I was doing 18 hour days just trying to chip away at this flood of phone calls, text messages, emails…" Strangers were calling to book the band.
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What I found when I spoke with people after the Simpson verdict, though, and have found since with numbing regularity, is that what prevents real racial conciliation and understanding in America is the poisonous relations between blacks and the police.
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That said, there's nothing particularly distinctive about the show -- including the ample action and shootouts -- and it risks quickly blending into the roster of buddy-cop dramas that Fox has trotted out with numbing regularity over the last few years.
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Those scenes are shot in a quick, kinetic fashion, though there's a somewhat numbing repetitive quality to many of them, the principal exception being a jaw-dropping skirmish that involves pursuing bad guys down the sheer side of a skyscraper.
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The interminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and "SPEECHABLE MOMENTS" back a whole half-hour earlier.
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Some may see this as a turning away from the world—a cloistering of the self—but I see it as Manguso's attempt to communicate with her readers outside of the chattering and often heart-numbing melee of the web.
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"I don't think anyone here has played in that temperature before other than Eli (quarterback Manning) and (long snapper Zak) DeOssie," he added, referring to veterans of the face-numbing 2007 NFC title game won in Green Bay by the Giants.
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See (actually, don't see) "Brother Nature," a mind-numbing fish story in which Roger (Taran Killam) spends an uncomfortable few days in the woods with people he hopes will be his future in-laws, among them the oafish Todd (Bobby Moynihan).
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Parents can hold their children during the procedure, breast-feed or give them a sweet solution (or a lollipop for older children) to suck on, distract them with a song or breathing exercises, and use a topical numbing cream if needed.
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But "13th" does an excellent — and vital — job of putting a human face on the broader tragedy, going beyond the numbing prison stats to illustrate the many ways that racial inequality has affected generations of blacks and Latinos in America.
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As Mother sits awkwardly in a chair, discussing mundane subjects with numbing velocity, Girlfriend remains silent, except for the occasional monosyllabic answer to a question, or a directive like the one she issues when she asks Mother to keep still.
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Filling out the surrogate family portrait are Aikin (Karen Eilbacher), Monty's trusted right hand, who eats the fantastical, senses-numbing flowers that grow in abundance, and the simple-minded Pin (Mike Swift), first seen copulating with a blowup sex doll.
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Perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than here in Chengdu, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 16 million that is best known for its pandas and mouth-numbing spicy food but is quickly becoming a hotbed of hip-hop, particularly rap.
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LAS VEGAS — President Trump comforted the victims of Sunday's deadly mass shooting and paid tribute to those who tended to them, taking up on Wednesday a harrowing duty of the modern presidency that has nevertheless become numbing in its regularity.
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Mala means numbing and spicy, and it describes a category of Chinese street food that originated in Sichuan Province, spread to Beijing and is now firmly rooted in New York, most recently at this fast-casual edition near New York University.
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As a homage to his new hometown, he takes pastrami, with its old-school deli funk, dices and deep-fries it, then tosses it in the wok with peanuts, chile paste and numbing Sichuan peppercorn, just enough to disorient the tongue.
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With jokes about racism, Indian stereotypes, and observations of all the mind-numbing things going on in the world right now, Kondabolu somehow manages to wrangle laughs out of some of the most infuriating facets of life in Warn Your Relatives.
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But what happens when the fundamental mistakes continue to be made, when the narrow defeats pile up to the point of being numbing, when injuries and defections have necessitated a six-man rotation confronting an unforgiving grind in a major conference?
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Steamed or stewed (or both, in some cases) and then fried and served inside of a gourd, this whole chicken (68 yuan) has tender, fall-apart meat that went well with a side of spicy, numbing cucumber seedlings (22 yuan).
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In the opening section, beautifully rendered by Mr. van Zweden and the orchestra, Mr. Goerne's singing of Whitman's spare-no-details descriptions of bloody soldiers soared over a backdrop of strings playing steady, swaying chords, music at once numbing and celestial.
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Based in Dresden, Schütz experienced the numbing disruptions of the Thirty Years' War and lived through a time when Germany was plagued with illnesses: He lost his young wife early on (and never remarried) and watched his two adult daughters die.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the first 2134 hours following Donald Trump's election as the next president of the United States, the response among many who'd hoped and voted for a different outcome was mostly numbing and immobilizing shock.
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Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.
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When general anesthesia is used, it's typically in emergency C-sections or in cases when typical numbing anesthesia like spinal blocks or epidurals cannot be used, says Grace Lim, director of obstetric anesthesiology at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh.
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Basically every single one of the women crack addicts I researched, they had all been sexually abused or raped, and so for me it felt like the drugs were a way of numbing them against that vast well of emotional pain.
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" • The Globes, which often teeter on the edge of tipsy chaos, seemed to be coasting on a mellow, it's-all-good buzz, our TV critic James Poniewozik wrote, adding, "It was pleasant enough, though numbing the longer it went on.
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South Korea warned that the United States and its allies were working on further sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain" on North Korea after its latest nuclear test, and urged China to do its part to rein in its neighbor.
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And while many cooks have started young — the French chef Jacques Pépin left school at 13 to apprentice — traditionally they had to suffer years of mind-numbing menial labor, cuts, burns and abuse before they ever earned the title chef.
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Both are at incredibly different stages of their lives: Matt's working a mind-numbing job to support his pregnant wife Sherri (Cash), while Jeff's living the slacker dream, working at a coffee shop while having uncomplicated fun with his girlfriend, Noelle (Zazie Beetz).
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That's not really going to be necessary this time, because May is all about one thing: Netflix bringing back as many well-known and familiar original shows as possible, in a numbing display of how far its come in the last four years.
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After enduing an almost numbing 108-year losing streak in major league baseball, the Cubs beat out the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series, making it one of the most long-awaited wins of, dare we say, all time?
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Pretty much every top 10 player in the solo and duos tournaments was part of lesser-known but nonetheless serious-minded e-sports organizations like Cooler and Sentinels, within which they practiced for mind-numbing stretches every day for months on end.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The videos of mind-numbing first bites and long lines, the celebratory memes and fawning reviews: The return of the Popeyes chicken sandwich on Sunday has met with the same social-media frenzy that first greeted it last summer.
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That their efforts were joined by other Internet companies and associations speaks not to those other groups' civic nature, but to their captive state in the Google-Netflix imperium, and to their mind-numbing lack of knowledge about things like politics and history.
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And while the producers encourage the viewer to try different options and explore potential avenues of the story, the manner in which the narrative keeps circling back to the main through-line becomes numbing and repetitive the longer the experience drags on.
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In Proust, the theological "kingdom come" built into French cathedrals is transposed into the novel's retrieval of an existential timelessness, or lost ecstasies — moments otherwise destroyed by habit, by voluntary memory, by daily routines, by the numbing tabulations of clock, calendar, and culture.
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Earlier today in Davos, where afternoon temperatures reached a balmy 20 degrees (and evening temps have dropped to limb-numbing f-f-five degrees Fahrenheit), CEO Valery Vavilov of the bitcoin infrastructure provider and transaction processing company BitFury swung by our temporary studio.
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"Checking out" or numbing yourself a little is a normal coping mechanism, but if you're avoiding your problems, pain, or fears all day, that's not good—use the energy of Pisces season to dive deep, check in, and to open up to transformation.
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I could picture my old friends, numbing themselves to the banal brutality of the world with liquor and gallows humor, enraged at having been fucked out of a quality of life their parents had known, which itself wasn't that great to start.
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As he sang in "Reminder" last year, "I just won a new award for a kids show / Talking 'bout a face numbing off a bag of blow / I'm like, goddamn bitch I am not a Teen Choice" in reference to his previous wins.
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So I think the actors in this film do, in a way, represent what I have seen in China's factory zones: this is now a more permanent state, and while the work may be mind-numbing, people are more resigned to it.
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With the presidency of Donald Trump, the Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible, anticipating, in so many ways, the frantic and fantastical, nihilistic and numbing nature of our newly installed government.
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Frustrated over Democrats slow-walking many executive and judicial branch nominees and chewing up Senate floor time in the bargain, Republicans moved on Wednesday toward shortening stringent time requirements that can turn even a routine confirmation into a C-Span-numbing, multiday slog.
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However, while many risks may be familiar — or, in some cases, have become numbing because of high-risk incidents that dominate the news cycle — it is imperative to understand that the threat landscape is rapidly evolving at a pace not previously experienced.
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If your idea of a children's board game is a mind-numbing round of Candyland, know that there's a whole crop of new options that are more thoughtful, challenging, and engaging than the typical "roll and move" games you probably remember from childhood.
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The mind-numbing and cookie-cutting process of modern education removes anything creative from our minds, and with the removal of shop classes by the older generations, the kids who have these skills struggle to prosper or find a passion in school.
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" Perhaps in response to stereotypes about female hysteria — Seresin mentions the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme — Clein and other women she's observed "instead now seem to be interiorizing our existential aches and angst, smirking knowingly at them, and numbing ourselves to maintain our nonchalance.
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And then these trainers go to great lengths to avoid detection—applying numbing agents to the horse's legs on the day of the show, and using electric shock and beatings beforehand to train the horse not to react to pain during inspection.
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In fact, the manner in which the Orlando attack immediately became political fodder contrasted with the numbing wave of shock that settled over the United Kingdom, where campaigning for next week's Europe Union referendum was put on hold after the murder of lawmaker Jo Cox.
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This tragedy could fade into memory as yet another instance of the societal numbing we have experienced for the past decade when it comes to such atrocities as the Sandy Hook, Emanuel AME Church, San Bernardino, Boston Marathon mass shootings and, unfortunately, many others.
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Click here to view original GIFAfter a mind-numbing election cycle and a distressing car accident, I dramatically deleted Twitter from my phone early last year, giving my brain a break from the creeping sense of exhaustion that was building up over the holidays.
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When I watch television, I don't want the confusion that can often accompany character-driven dramas or the unrealistic antics of so-called reality TV. I want my television time and my Netflix binging to be a period of solace and mind-numbing ease.
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UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein cited "heartbreaking images" of ISIS forcing children to carry out executions and reports of women being "redistributed" among ISIS fighters, as evidence of the "numbing and intolerable" suffering of civilians in Mosul and other ISIS-held areas.
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The birth of streaming television has given us a merciful respite from the mind-numbing ad breaks that finance broadcast TV. But you can't keep a bad thing down, and Amazon is reportedly developing an ad-supported, free version of its popular Prime video service.
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What Chad, Barnaby, Reginald, Derek and their vast network of colleagues had to do was simple—capture the attention of youths around the globe and offer them a numbing solution, leaving them wide open for all-consuming exploitation for the rest of their lives.
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" She added, "All these women out here on Xanax, drinking Chardonnay, it saddens me how a lot of women are out here numbing themselves just to survive in a way that they've been told they need to be to have happy lives … but are miserable.
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The Post's report about automation creating an increasingly monotonous, confined, and mind-numbing work environment for Walmart workers immediately calls to mind similar reports about the company's retail rival Amazon, which has also been shifting to free labor performed by robots for years now.
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In LA, you can find Hong Kong roasted duck, beef noodles by way of Gansu, tongue-numbing hot pots from Sichuan, hot noodles from Wuhan, Xinjiang cumin-laced skewers, and Jiangsu dumplings so big that you need straws to suck the soup out of them.
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GM partly created the problem because it added extra tasks to the workers' jobs in an effort to ease the monotony of a job that likely would become mind-numbing otherwise, but Time reporter Edwin Reingold suggested that that wasn't what employees actually wanted.
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After drawing blood from your arm, a doctor spins your blood to isolate plasma-rich platelets, puts numbing cream on your vulva, injects it with Lidocaine to numb it some more, then injects your blood into your clitoris and the inside of your vagina.
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I mean, how can we not feel dragged down by some of the mind-numbing moments that accompany infancy, the anxiety-filled times when we feel we have no idea what we're doing, or those days that seem so long, they could stretch into years?
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Since he took over in 2005, Mr. Iger has led Disney on a numbing series of record quarterly results, even in the face of economic downturns, the occasional horrendous movie write-off and changing consumer habits that have dented ESPN, its primary profit engine.
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Live, in performances like the ones on his record You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (2006), released on his Giorno Poetry Systems label, he weaved his voice around the backing tracks to produce a mind-numbing mandala of sound and meaning.
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That risks numbing us to a powerful revelation: A select group of New York households reported "negative income" and paid no city income taxes, even though they took in $1.8 billion in capital gains, dividends, interest and wages: 54,348 households reported income below zero.
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The Jets went through the toughest portion of their schedule—though they still have two games left against Tom Brady and the Patriots—and played to a 1-5 record, including mind-numbing losses to the Chiefs, Steelers, and most recently, the Arizona Cardinals.
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For most of us, taxes are a simple but mind-numbing chore: You dust off your TurboTax login, you type the numbers into the little boxes, and a seemingly random number is generated telling you how much you owe or how much you get back.
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In this autobiographical fiction, a freelance writer in financial straits takes a job at an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig and precisely details the dehumanizing boredom of the routines at the center of the global economy, the numbing labor behind the click of a button.
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" Mr. Trump's insistence on defining his own reality — his repeated claims, for example, that he actually won the popular vote — is immutable and has had a "numbing effect" on people who work with him, said Tony Schwartz, his ghostwriter on "The Art of the Deal.
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NEIL GENZLINGER 'Westworld' (HBO) Between the opaque scene-setting of its early episodes and the numbing exposition of its later ones, "Westworld" had a midseason sweet spot where it found the right balance of ideas and action — where it was just plain good science fiction.
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If this book were simply a compendium of known truths, it would make for harmless (if pointless) reading; what makes it infuriating is the mind-numbing regurgitation of common sense combined with the suggestion that it was only recently discovered by his vaunted researchers.
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Then there was the affront of the in-betweener's job itself: Painstaking, repetitive and for Mr. Wong quickly soul-numbing, it is the assembly-line work of animation — "a terrible use of his talents as a landscape artist and a painter," Mr. Canemaker said.
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Keeping track of where each "Star Wars" title fits into the overall scheme of things can be brain-numbing (the movies weren't made in story-chronological order), but the strongest ones work as stand-alones and let you just go with the onscreen flow.
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The computers simply freed the humans from mind-numbing work like counting out 20-dollar bills to focus on more cognitively demanding tasks like "forging relationships with customers, solving problems and introducing them to new products like credit cards, loans and investments," he said.
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This would be an act of the most intimate violence performed by the man who is now president himself, flesh to flesh, not with the numbing distance of a signature on an executive order or an offense screamed out at one of his rage rallies.
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While I may have inadvertently stumbled into an anesthesia-free minor surgery, a number of other American patients are now opting to stay awake for much more intensive and grisly procedures, choosing topical numbing injections for surgeries that were once a general-anesthesia foregone conclusion.
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It can be numbing to walk through a sea of indie games, many of them using a throwback aesthetic that's long since stopped being novel, but Way of the Passive Fist caught my eye because I couldn't tell what the hell was happening while someone played.
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Photo: APApple CEO Tim Cook took some time from his busy WWDC 2018 schedule on Monday to clarify something: He does not intend to subject us all to the kind of mind-numbing speculation about political ambitions previously cultivated by other tech billionaires like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
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It is in service of this un-numbing that I reached out to Our Gourmet Life, an "erotic dinner party" that has been taking place regularly in San Francisco for almost ten years, and the event at which I found myself being seduced by my server.
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I've already used the word "virgin" 27 times in this article and honestly, going through the rest of the dumb jokes, unenlightened commentary, and subliminal imaging within the show (so many exploding champagne bottles) as they pertain to Underwood's sex journey will be mind-numbing for everyone.
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Watch More from VICE: As a young adult, Pennelle went through all the motions of growing up—she graduated from college and got a job—but because she used alcohol and drugs as numbing agents every day, she never learned how to actually cope with life.
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Several presenters, jokingly or not, indulged in improv-heavy banter after claiming that they couldn't read the teleprompters; shortly before revealing the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy, Jennifer Lopez was caught staring into space for several seconds, a potent metaphor for the Grammys' numbing capabilities.
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Even though the Dallas shooting contains a unique blend of elements—the snipers, the crosshairs targeting of police, the racial dimension, the graphic footage of the event itself—there is a numbing sameness to it all, the familiar sensation of being confronted by more senseless carnage.
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PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - Animal rights activist Ashley Fruno braved bone-numbing temperatures in Pyeongchang, host of this month's Winter Games, to call for an end to the fur trade on Tuesday and said she wanted to send a message that fur has no place at the Olympics.
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Beth's younger sister Annie (Mae Whitman) is more rebellious (we know because she wears liberal amounts of kohl eyeliner), and works a numbing, minimum-wage job as the cashier at a supermarket to support her gender-nonconforming daughter (Izzy Stanard), who is bullied in middle-school.
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In the face of such mind-numbing violence, it's natural that we search for an all-encompassing explanation, whether it take the form of lax gun control (or conversely, no "good guy with a gun" to stop the shooter), poor mental health care, or jihadi ideology.
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The reason Sex and the City is a good show to rewatch is precisely because it was made before I was supposed to worry about whether or not something was problematic and could just enjoy a TV show on its own merits as mind-numbing entertainment.
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It's just a personal ideology on self-medication and escapism, whether it's going to the bar four nights a week and drinking or prescription medication or drug use or any kind of ways people are numbing themselves, my choice to sort of remove myself from it.
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Students first face an often multi-hour series of technical steps just to get the software set up before they begin working through tedious button-clicking instructions, which are at best mind-numbing and at worst outdated and inaccurate for the current version of the software.
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Last week, I took Facebook to task for the mind-numbing complexity of its emerging content policies, which speak broadly of the virtues of free expression but allow the company wide latitude to remove or reduce the distribution of certain posts for a variety of reasons.
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The simple, numbing pleasures of chopping goblins in half and taking their loot threaten to take over Finn's life, forcing him to rely on his friendship with Jake to snap out of it — an experience that will be familiar to anyone with similarly self-destructive coping mechanisms.
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Nothing is in walking distance from its numerous subdivisions; housewives get mauled by bears whose habitats have been destroyed by McMansions with a numbing degree of regularity; and what locals claim is its oldest business, the Lake Mary Pub, is obviously falling apart if not imminently closing.
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The mind-numbing nature of cookie consent boxes leads many to ignore them or click whatever option will make them go away, which is great for information-hungry companies, as it means a bevy of third parties can continue to slurp up each begrudging user's data.
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Every other day of the year—from yesterday to today to tomorrow to next week—we grit our teeth as Hulu forces us to watch yet another repetitive, mind-numbing ad while we try to remain engrossed in the short span of a 30-minute show.
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The first, ma, gives name to the numbing power of the Sichuan peppercorn: first producing a hum against the lips, as if you were playing an invisible harmonica or waiting to be kissed, then a cool effervescence, the aftermath of a hundred needles perforating your tongue.
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And as North Korea is recognized as a state sponsor of terror, helping groups like Hezbollah with arms and expertise, a numbing slew of lawsuits should be filed seeking damages; those damages will result in the forfeiture of North Korean assets — open and hidden — around the world.
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There was the Pennsylvania woman in 2001 who went to a medical spa for laser hair removal and ended up with second-degree burns, and in 2004, a college student died from brain damage caused by a numbing gel applied at a medical spa in North Carolina.
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Zhang Huan, who had also created a number of body-numbing, masochistic pieces, such as "13 Square Meters" (21) (not included in the show), was able to wiggle out of incarceration by proving he was still an art student, barely excusing his behavior to the authorities.
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So to sum up: That's roughly three or four years of mind-numbing kiddie shows and young parents feeling like they're losing their identities, followed by a lifetime of rich, often highly rewarding relationships, marked by some of the most lasting memories that anyone can make.
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"It's mind-numbing that a guy [who] is going to be secretary of Labor said he'd like to be able to replace his workers with robots because they don't take a break and they don't need a rest," said Leo Gerard, president of 1.2-million-member United Steelworkers.
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Not even our best psychologists are willing to say that watching MMA doesn't have a numbing or negative effect on children's mental and moral development, and studies are being done all the time on the lasting effects repeated head blows have on the health of the human brain.
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But in the wake of Brexit — after a glum day of chorusing "I can't believe it!" and staring huffily out the window alongside my coworkers — the numbing shock was converted to action, thanks to a targeted Facebook ad from FVAP, urging me to cast my ballot this November.
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READ: U.S. F-22s fly low in a show of force over South Korea South Korean vow Seoul recently vowed to take "bone-numbing" measures against Pyongyang following last month's nuclear test and this month's satellite launch, both of which Seoul says violate United Nations Security Council resolutions.
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" She falls in love with Peter, another graduate student, and in between discussing "Victorian illness memoirs" or "the etymology of the word 'render,' " they sink into the numbing experience of drinking together: "Booze let me live inside moments without the endless chatter of my own self-conscious annotation….
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Maybe it's different for the 0.1 percent at the top of the pyramid (you with your shining eye on the back of the dollar bill), but for most of us the world is a confusing, complicated, mind-numbing place over which we feel a dismaying lack of control.
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As a lover of textual ingenuity, I'm most struck, in Mr. Trump's speeches, by the mind-numbing syntactic simplicity of his utterances, by the lack of logical coordination and subordination, and by the repetition of basic subject-verb-object sentences with little in the way of coherent connection.
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Leading up to the epic release of Avengers: Endgame, plenty of folks (yours truly included) were worried that the inevitable addition of time travel to the MCU would undermine the series' fundamental structure and leave our favorite heroes in a pile of mind-numbing paradoxes, fallacies, and plot holes.
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The twisted, disturbing intimacy that Butler depicts between master and slave in the antebellum South is gone; in its place is a numbing bureaucracy that allows every party to avoid recognizing their complicity in the system, if they wish — and the moral imperative to recognize your own complicity anyway.
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Another neurochemical that increases in the sleep-deprived brain, adenosine, has been shown to correlate with resilience to depression and its mind-numbing effects while also mediating the effects of an all-nighter, and it seems to be central to the action of other depression treatments, like ketamine.
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Any hope for a grand finale under once-and-again Coach Jon Gruden faded with a numbing series of losses (the team is 3-533) and the realization, after the Raiders traded two top players for future draft picks, that Oakland was being stepped on, like a springboard.
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If you've ever stared at the mind-numbing (and ever-growing) selection of craft beers among the aisles of your grocery or corner store, you've surely noticed the prevalence of images of scantily clad women wrapped around bottles and the lame wordplay that inevitably goes along with them.
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For a couple of sense-numbing hours, they could believe that the grown-ups who make a mess of the world are a distant and adversarial breed, and that the biggest problem on earth is an older generation's inability to understand what it means to be in love.
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"I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain, so to speak, and kind of being able to vent it through my music," he said in a 22017 interview with the website Noisecreep.
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" Constance MacDougall, in an email to the Planning and Zoning Commission, called it an "insult" to the town's colonial tradition, "a mind-numbing monochromatic gray cartoon of a wall devoid of any visual element that would give it a measure of compatibility to the landscape on which it sits.
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Susann's "dolls" seem just as important to her protagonists; although drugs usually have a numbing effect, they also offered the women of Valley—who otherwise had their sexual, emotional, and psychological identities determined by their male partners or the patriarchal institutions they existed in—a certain amount of agency and control.
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Some will apply a topical numbing cream to your lips for a few minutes, but from my previous experience, I can tell you that never completely prevents you from feeling the needle pricks; however, Volbella contains a small amount of lidocaine, so each poke will be less and less annoying.
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As a free element in the Pentagon, disliking the grandiose talk of big platforms and one-or-two-theatre wars and the numbing inter-service rivalry, he relished a type of combat that would be nimbler and quicker, with sensor-fitted precision weapons, robotic devices and IT co-ordination between forces.
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This isn't just a seemingly benign question posed to his 48 million followers; it's a mind-numbing logic puzzle that is only amplified by the fact that the Facebook founder has surely surrounded himself with legions of yes-men who will praise his apparel regardless of it's actual merits or limitations.
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Legal experts said Manafort may call witnesses who can help show: But blowing up Gates' reputation likely won't be enough, by itself, to secure Manafort's freedom, legal analysts told VICE News, because the prosecution's case also involves a lengthy — at times, mind-numbing — paper trail, and some two-dozen other witnesses.
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The trial exposed in numbing detail the financial strategies of the wealthy family — with a presence in the art world dating back four generations to 1875 — and their use of artwork owned by trusts and stored in Switzerland to reap income from bank loans against the rising value of the paintings.
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As for whether "Who is America?" finds an answer to its title, as with Cohen's past efforts, the series generally provides exaggerated snapshots of America, connected by one overarching picture: the hypnotic, numbing effect that the promise of TV exposure can induce, even on those who should theoretically know better.
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With 40 to 15 inches of snow already down in New York City and its suburbs, and another few inches still to come in eastern Long Island, the National Weather Service warned of continuing high winds and blowing snow through the night, followed by toe-numbing cold into the weekend.
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And perhaps the greatest miracle achieved by "Angels," at least in physical terms, is that even after the seven hours of bum-numbing sitting it demands (not counting intermissions), it continues to leave its audiences not exhausted but energized — including this critic, who has seen at least four earlier versions.
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In many ways, it was the prototype for the best of the national and regional chains that followed it, insuring bourgeois Americans affordable and dependable quality—along, alas, with the increasingly numbing conformity of most American kitchens—the difference being that Schrafft's was primarily a place for women to eat.
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What Will Probably Happen: Disinhibition, Reyes-Fournier says, can affect social life in more subtle ways, too—essentially numbing the markers that allow your friend to be a useful human who can sit on her patio and effectively listen to a person she cares about vent after a hard day at work.
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The largest brokerages have extended loans of at least $100 billion to clients secured with assets in their accounts, according to the Wall Street Journal, an area of lending which has taken off as the stock market, now in its ninth consecutive up month, has been in a steady and numbing rise.
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So as this fourth-network scenario came true in America — along with cable TV and the present-day onslaught of premium channels and the comfortably numbing power of quality shows on HBO, Showtime, Netflix and others — "Network" has remained not just a period piece but an almost psychically inspired glimpse into the future.
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If I had to sit through one more debate over a mind-numbing amendment from Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerTed Cruz clarifies after Lev Parnas's lawyer calls senator's tweet 'fake news' House Democrats unveil 85033B infrastructure plan Democrats to unveil infrastructure plan with eye on 2020 elections MORE (D-N.
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The unknown side effects of increasingly popular medicines (such as bisphosphonates, which prevent bone loss when used correctly but are overprescribed and may interfere with the normal reknitting of bones) or medical procedures (such as shock-wave therapy, which is supposed to reduce inflammation and trigger healing in tissue but also causes numbing).
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Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a movie star existing in a mind-numbing purgatory at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood — he drinks, he has anonymous sex, he burns rubber in his Ferrari — finds something to live for after his ex-wife leaves their 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) in his care.
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It was only after Albert's death — and the years of numbing grief that had the English wondering whether their queen was still able to fulfill her responsibilities — that she could recover her grip, return to politics, deal with prime ministers she either liked (Disraeli) or detested (Gladstone) and win back her subjects' loyalty.
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But others see the potential for achieving actual deliciousness: Gao first heard of dark cuisine last summer, when an employee at an ice cream shop in Chongqing was spotted spooning chile crisp — a scarlet oil heavy with crushed chiles, shallots fried into sweet shards and numbing Sichuan peppercorns — over vanilla soft serve.
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A leather menu outlines two pages of creative concoctions, including an Eastern Old Fashioned made with kaffir lime syrup and dried tangerine peel; an Oriental Julep with ginger and honey; a Far East Sangria, mixing together Chenin Blanc, Bacardi, berries and ginger honey; and a Sichuan Bloody Mary containing numbing Sichuan peppers.
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Mostly, "Crisis in Six Scenes" approximates one of the films the director used to churn out during that period when even longtime fans began questioning the numbing frequency of his movies, with the disclaimer that this effort -- adding up the six installments -- runs roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes, much longer than most Allen features.
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This is the part of it that's specific to our time: the strategic cowardice of the anonymous source, the reversion to rhetoric of whinging woundedness and crocodile-tear disappointment instead of more straightforward and punitive swinging-dick bombast, the numbing corporate language that calls Kaepernick a distraction instead of something closer to what they mean.
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A similar degree of devotion can be inspired by Sichuanese cuisine, which lands on the unsuspecting tongue like the kiss of a fierce lover; you might have conceived of the encounter as a forgettable fling, but it leaves you gasping for air—in thrall to its numbing, tingling fervor and possibly besotted for life.
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At the very same time that the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have given voice to women, and led to men being held accountable, particularly in the private sector, Trump has almost single-handedly aided in the numbing of America's sympathies for women who speak up about the sexual exploits, misdeeds and assaults of elected officials.
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And while exactly none of Mr. Zimmern's clay pigeon shooting skills rubbed off on me, we bonded over something else: the sauce that he put on top of his Patagonia-caught salmon at dinner on Saturday night, a piquant, mouth-numbing flurry of flavors so memorable, I had to ask him what it was.
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I think that it is very important that people begin to think for themselves again because without the ability to create an idea for themselves society is going to drift into a mind numbing state were nobody is even able to think for themself any more and there will be no variety in peoples opinions.
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Many of them lengthy affairs, weighed down by the potentially numbing repetitiveness of streams of da capo arias, they have benefited greatly from the modern early-music movement, with its emphasis on crisp textures and brisk pacing, and its encouragement of quasi-improvised embellishment in repeats to vary the tunes and heighten the drama.
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The answer is that when we were in college MMA wasn't even MMA yet; it was just ultimate fighting, which meant it was just barbarism, and any college class about it would have been some mind-numbing slog through its sociological implications and the insight it offered into the decay of the human mind and the collapse of civilization.
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If you don't start getting a message there, if you don't start listening to people there, if you don't start spending time, energy and money there, you can say goodbye to any notion of realigning political power and instead say hello to the numbing reality that you are relegating yourself to the status of a permanent minority party.
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I do use SSRIs and I do use all the topical numbing applications to try to help these guys out, but what I do is try to screen them for any kind of underlying depression or bipolar disorder and then, if there's any concern, I would have them see a psychiatrist first to make sure they're clear.
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In a patriarchal world, many abusive actions perpetrated by men against women have been normalized to the point of numbing the humiliation and blurring the line between right and wrong, supported by selective interpretations of the Christian way that's upheld in ways that only serve to project white supremacy and sexism, while denying true accountability for one's actions.
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Voicing outrage at the "numbing and intolerable" suffering inflicted on civilians by the unfolding conflict, the United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, in a statement on Friday demanded immediate action by the Iraqi government to protect fleeing or freed residents of areas held by the Islamic State and to bring the attackers to justice.
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