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The constant tension over a problem which thought itself has created only dulls the mind, making it insensitive and weary.

Naked technology wipes out productivity improvements, hurts return on investment, and dulls the bright edge of well-conceived strategies.

But many voters will simply see conventional political point-scoring, which dulls Mr Obama's edge as a new type of politician.

Permanent and uninterrupted work dulls, trivializes, and depersonalizes.

But eventually the mind slows, the arteries clog, the ability to deal with new challenges dulls.

The spirits were trapped inside the vials with stoppers and then dipped in holy water, which she says "dulls the spirits' energy. "

Ideally, the epidural only dulls the pain, and women remain alert and can still play an active role in labor.

It appears that watching too much television dulls a child's imagination.

The Dulls' barn is part of a Christmas-tree farm.

Time dulls the most exquisite emotions and softens the most heartrending grief .

Prolonged routine work dulls the imagination.

Choice, in other words, dulls the critical faculties.

Obviously, it is not work, but resistance, that dulls the mind.

But I don't like it very much. You just take pictures without conscious thought. It dulls our senses.

(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims.

Smoking dulls our brains and weakens our body.

This cheap knife dulls easily.

That knife dulls easily.

A cold dulls one's taste.

And it is more acute, more alive, because language dulls it.

Even more a reason to learn when you are young because age dulls the memory!

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse(Mary Daly)