Sentences with phrase «becoming numbed»

In this information - explosion age, our visual sense is gradually becoming numbed by the constant barrage of new products, and we take for granted another of our primary senses, touch.

«We put it out first by not becoming numb to the fact that the truth is being assailed every day.

Last year, President Obama said the nation had «become numb» to the type of violence Orlando endured early Sunday morning.

«Unfortunately these events are happening with such frequency investors have become numb and don't respond as they did several years ago,» David Nelson, chief strategist of Belpointe Asset Management, said in an email.

And unlike adults who have become numb to political hypocrisy and gun - control stalemates, the students can approach the issue with a fresh eye and a jolt of righteous fury that will be hard to ignore.

She felt America was becoming numb to mass shootings.

The news / noise flow is almost constant so it even raises the question as to at what point investors become numb to headline risk.

We become numb and lifeless.

Is the violent content causing me to become numb and complacent to human suffering?

Why should God become the numbing agent to wipe out all life's suffering?

I question whether or not an animal that is meant to have this instinctual bond to care for their young might become numb after having this process repeated for so long.

I become numb and cold and I just know how we will play and what will happen.

His lips will become numb easily and the pain will disappear.

Medical interventions can also cause areas of the body to become numb or feel as though the skin is being pricked by pins and needles.

I've seen the outcomes of ignoring kids» true needs before, and so have you — in the variations of the same tragic stories that we hear about in the media so often we are becoming numb to them.

Prolonged use of ice can cause the nipple and areola to become numb, so use this technique just long enough for the nipple to protrude.

We are surprised that Nigerian lawmakers and other political office holders have become numb to our pains, agonies, and miseries.

Ken Lovett: «Even for New York, which has almost become numb to the procession of public officials in recent years who left office in handcuffs or shame, having two top legislative leaders given substantial prison time a little more than a week apart is a new low.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he joins «all New Yorkers in mourning this senseless tragedy,» adding: «These mass shootings have become appallingly and unforgivably common in our society, but we must not become numb to tragedy.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said the APC Government has «completely become numbed» to the suffering of Nigerians, to the extent that it no longer cares about «imposing more hardship on our people.»

I spent countless hours searching for grants and fellowships, eventually becoming numb to the words «Must be a U.S. citizen.»

«I think health care workers in general become numb to the fact that hospitals are an environment of germs,» Gregory says.

The overdose risk spikes more than sevenfold during that month - long window, he explains, because users who may once have become numbed to opiates regain their sensitivity while clean in jail.

And despite conducting sometimes - lethal missions in front of a computer screen, Chappelle said drone operators have not shown any indication that they have become numb to the act of killing.

Even locals have become numb to the conflict.

We might shift slightly during sleep — say, when an arm becomes numb — without even realizing it, probably around the time in each sleep cycle when we exit deep REM sleep and enter the lightest phase of sleep, Dr. Paruthi says.

So many of us have become numb to the synthetic fragrances and potentially harmful ingredients we're using on our skin, and I — like many of my fellow green - brand founders — am on a mission to educate and create change.

The main problem with insulin is chronic elevation, leading to insulin resistance (when cells become numb to insulin, and blood glucose rises to pre-diabetes or diabetes levels).

And I'm becoming numb to it.

When I overeat or drink too much, I become numb to the messages my body is trying to tell me.

Alpha - lipoic acid may benefit anyone whose limbs tend to tingle or become numb, or «fall asleep» due to nerve compression.

When cells become numb to insulin, serum insulin levels rise, and high insulin seems to be directly toxic to the ovary, causing higher production of testosterone.

More sugar means your cells become numb to insulin's «call.»

Maybe it's just those first few weeks where everything seems colder than it is... And then you adapt and just kind of become numb?

If you feel that you have become numb, tired, and exhausted to online dating, give yourself permission to take a break.

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

As Dr. William Beckham (Keanu Reeves) points out midway into the story, anorectics starve themselves to become numb to feeling; meaning, that something must have happened during the lives of the mostly young people who refuse to eat, and these sick folks simply do not want to feel the pain (their mothers» indifference, perhaps).

The Departed delivers on his vision, and you will not be disappointed with his latest offering — even if your ass becomes numb after sitting for the extended period of time needed to watch it.

In Volcano, the thrills are so well wrought that they eventually lose their novelty and become numbing.

People begin to blindly, deafly, and mutely accept each other's flaws and shortcomings and eventually become numb to them.

The movie becomes a numbing parade of dark, sad endings with little weight.

When the funny parts aren't making you laugh and you've already become numb to the violence, what really is there to recommend?

In We Need To Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton's Eva Khatchadourian becomes numb after her sociopathic son murders his father, his sister, and a dozen schoolmates.

It is massively frustrating to watch because there is so much to relate to and it definitely awakens the viewer to realities we have become numb to: corruption and bribery, the manipulation of the media, and the propaganda of the government.

In other words, we become numb to the pain of NOT changing.

He said Californians have become numb to the large number of children who are not getting a good education.

We have become numb to data breaches, since they occur with increasing regularity.

They do not seem to notice; they have become numb to it, but then again, so have I.

«Surviving the horrific is likewise often done by shutting down sensation, by becoming numb to one's own pain... you erected a wall between yourself and annihilation or horror and sometimes it then walled you off from life.»

Readers trolling Amazon and B & N have become numb to this low price point, with some readers expecting to pay no more than $ 0.99 - $ 1.99.