Sentences with phrase «dulling my experiences of»

While I was «taking the edge off» of the pain and vulnerability, I was also unintentionally dulling my experiences of good feelings, like joy.

Not exact matches

In terms of quality, I have yet to experience a defected or dull blade.

It described the nation's largest bank as «insular», saying it had not learned from experiences and mistakes and its «continued financial success dulled the senses of the institution».

A corollary of all this that is crucial for Whitehead's reflections on education is the idea that a life led on the level of human existence that is mere dull repetition of value realized in earlier experience is less than fully human.

Gallup pollsters asked a cross-section of Americans whether they experience life as dull and routine, or as exciting.

A's parishioner's have a dull we've - heard - that - before feeling, whereas B's people feel a sense of having experienced the new life of forgiveness.

These series of occasions of experience (as Whitehead calls them) build up into patterns which give the outward appearance to our dull senses of firmness and immobility.

The difficulty of the task of making the «actual world» a datum can be judged if we bear in mind that precisely the immediate and deeply reaching experiences are usually dull and nonspecific.

While common sense develops only a dull, vague, but solid feeling of the infinite reproducibility of this elementary experience, say, feeling the stone under the butt and the butt on the stone, natural science consciously aims at optimization and at an optimized grasp of the persistence and regularity of constellations of events, which satisfy the requirements for stability that things have.

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

Our own therapeutic regime tends to dull, with distractions and disinfectants, our sensitivity to the fundamenta of human experience.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Recounting an experience may enhance your understanding of it, which then dulls your opinion of the incident.

Drugs are no easy solution But the drugs themselves are no easy solution for people suffering from bipolar disorder, says Laurel Lemke, 54, of Lakewood, Wash., who says she experienced «cognitive dulling» on lithium, so much so that switched to another medication when she wanted to try to go to graduate school.

Have you ever experienced a stabbing or dull ache in the buttocks, a spasm that shoots down from your hip or a burning pain in the back of your leg?

They recognized that traumatic, biographical experiences left deep impressions on the soul and that the addictive medications, which dull the symptoms, serve simply to avoid the real work of dealing with the effects of the trauma.

In my work, I often notice the changes that many women experience during the winter season — the high energy of summer and fall is long gone, fatigue and low moods are more common, our cravings are all over the place, and our skin is looking dull.

This often results in the experiencing of a dull ache for the patient.

Herman Hesse said that the lives of men of action are interesting to relate, but dull to live, while the lives of wasters, idlers and dreamers make terribly drab reading, but for their owners are brimming with unparalleled experiences of inspiration, hope and beauty.

If your diet does not contain adequate amounts of zinc regularly, you may experience hair loss, depression, difficulty with night vision, acne or other chronic skin problems and a dulled sense of taste and smell.

Now here's the most important part: if your skin's microbiome is off balance, you will experience any number of skin issues including eczema, acne, dry skin, dull skin, and premature aging.

Haven't you ever experienced a little break out or dulling of your complexion during times of stress?

Summary If you have a sluggish digestive system, are experiencing bloating, constipation, tiredness, dull skin and hair, acne, eczema, mood disorders (moody, depressed, irritable) and a weak immune system then you should come along to learn how to heal your gut and learn all about the ancient yet brilliant fermentation process of different foods.

A dull and dirty razor can turn a great shaving experience into a disastrous one full of nicks, razor burns and irritated skin.

If you experience all over dull skin, you can either mix a small amount of pink concealer to your daily face makeup and apply or pick up a pink color correcting primer, such as Maybelline's Facestudio Master Prime in Blur + Illuminate.

To save me from all these routine and experience of having dull, blemish prone, skin with spots, I have been trying many products.

I've drawn on my own experience, and asked some friends, to pull together a handy list of 19 lines that you might want to avoid using if you don't want to come across as dull, or downright scary.

The thing is, not experiencing it for a while can dull our perceptions of what love feels like.

With her years of experience, honest advice, and hands - on matchmaking, Patti continues helping daters escape those dull first dates and find that someone special.

Nothing about this transfer outside of some of the color reproduction does anything to enhance this dull experience.

While not terrible, Zoo Tycoon 2 suffers from a lack of sheen that creeps like dry rot into the foundations of the game, dulling the whole experience.

I actually enjoy these sorts of films, as the writing is generally of high caliber, and the exotic locales and vibrant scenery make for an enjoyable cinematic experience, even if the main story is a bit dull.

This average biopic has the perfect material to be made into a quintessential modern classic, but it sadly lacks soul and intensity, resulting in a rather dull experience that doesn't quite live up to the importance of its real - life character.

The gameplay is great and the graphics are gorgeous for an rpg of this size, but a weak story and numerous bugs dull the experience.

The film veers from being peppy to long dull spots, which show up Ms. Lloyd's lack of filmmaking experience.

PAYDAY 2 for the Nintendo Switch features plenty of content and varied missions but it can not be seen as a fine conversion work when its AI is pitiful, the graphics are very much outdated and the one player experience is terribly dull.

The content is short on both quantity and quality, some of the minigames are just badly designed, one of its game modes is way too repetitive and dull to provide any fun and the soundtrack adds nothing to the experience.

Creature Comfort is a balls to the walls statement about modern culture with amazing sound, the album shouldve kept that level of fun, instead we got just a very dull synth - pop experience.

At its core, Sea of Thieves is a fun, innocent experience that rewards spontaneity and imagination, but becomes rather dull and repetitive if you want a linear experience.

This is a game that is oversimplified to the point where it does not offer any experience of significant interest whatsoever and quickly falls into a dull and repetitive cycle.

Maybe a director with more experience could have fused this into something less chaotic, or then again someone more used to the traditional form of storytelling might have just dulled out the rougher edges that make Cheadle's debut stand out to at least some degree.

Super Cloudbuilt is a high speed, low gravity platform game featuring an excellent level design, a lot of additional content and some online modes that help make the experience never feel dull.

The lovers are dull, and whatever the movie wants to say about the culture and society of the time is crammed into a few scenes of the king's court acting foppish and the women of the court revealing how their experiences don't matter to the men.

I found the first hour or so of dialogue and gameplay to be rather dull and a little bit of a downer for the series, but once you give the game time to get started, the story begins to evolve and you will be reminded of all the great MGS experiences.

In more intense or emotional moments, the voice acting and sync with characters broke me out of the experience and dulled the impact of some scenes.

«Third Person» is without a doubt one of the most joyless moviegoing experiences of the year — a convoluted mess filled with insufferable characters and dull stories where nothing really happens.

All of this leads to a long, dull experience.

Unfortunately, it ended up being a relatively dull and forgettable experience, and was highly criticized for its inclusion of the lock - on mechanism from the single player campaign.

It feels cool at first but the lack of proper combo and attacks makes it a dull experience and it gets repetitive quickly.

The result is an emotionally - draining experience... unless of course you've never seen another movie, then you may find it dull.