Sentences with phrase «numbing effect»

While the numbing effect of alcohol is often used by people to dull the pain of a relationship problem, it usually creates a great deal more emotional disconnection and pain in the long run.

Their simple, rather humbling effect, almost a numbing effect, became a sort of «control» against which my increasing tendency in the seventies to be extravagant could be measured» (W. Rubin, Frank Stella 1970 - 1987, New York 1987, p. 48).

Several works stand out: photographer Deana Lawson and painter Henry Taylor point to deep - seated racial tensions, Jordan Wolfson's virtual reality video underlines the numbing effect of real and virtual violence, Raul de Nieves bejewelled faux stained glass wall finds beauty in the esoteric and spiritual and Samara Golden's disorienting multi-storey installation illustrates the unnerving effect of insipid architecture and urban sprawl.

Several recent studies have concluded that Internet users are less empathetic than non-Internet users, and it appeared to have been a curatorial decision in «Network as Artist» to obliquely comment on the Web's numbing effect.

In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

How 18th - century), District 9 satirizes the numbing effect of cable news networks, as well as the dangers faced by any outcast culture trying to eke out subsistence existences on the fringes of majority society.

There isn't much help from the grim dialogue, which has a numbing effect as well: «We started this thing together.

De Niro's expression is fascinating, waves of weariness and indifference flowing across his iconic mug in what suggests a meta commentary on this tragic career phase in the actor's career and, simultaneously, a genuine reaction on his part to the numbing effect of having to appear in another cynical squirt of pre-fab studio entertainment.

It has a calming and numbing effect on the body, which is the reason it is so popular for treating headaches.

It almost has a numbing effect, but in a weird way, I no longer wanted to eat a snack.

«Ice has a numbing effect, which can help with headache pain, especially migraines,» says Fiona Gupta, MD, a neurologist at North Jersey Brain and Spine Center.

Capsaicin makes up about 12 percent of the pepper and is capable of intercepting inflammatory pathways and producing a numbing effect.

Or perhaps because my academic love language is found in reading, writing, and analyzing the written word while formulas and laws have a numbing effect on my thought processes.

Some of these can be placed in the refrigerator or freezer, after which the cold provides a sort of numbing effect, and let me tell you, this works.

Also the numbing effect doesn't last very long.

The coolness will have a mild numbing effect on your baby's sore gums and any rash around their mouth.

The numbing effect is almost instantaneous and (in my experience) the baby instantly sees life in a better light.

Peppermint certainly has its place as well, having demonstrated a calming and numbing effect on skin irritations.

Commercial lip balms for adults have many other additives, like menthol that can provide a numbing effect for sore lips, in them that are not meant for babies.

Spicy Sichuan pepper, which delivers a numbing effect along with nuanced heat, will leave your lips buzzing.

I thought you said MIND numbing effect, and was a bit concerned about the peppercorns.

A&M chancellor Sharp on alcohol at events: «Our athletic program has not reached the point where we require the numbing effects of alcohol.»

Your breast will also feel the numbing effects.

Essential oils can increase blood flow in the muscles and tissues as well as create warm and numb effect on the pain.

The one thread that Lee effectively mines across the board is the soul - numbing effects of alienation.

The numbing effects of alcohol and certain drugs dull the senses and shorten the reaction times essential to safe driving.

Not exact matches

In a mind - numbing thought, it appears that the implementation of austerity budgets actually had the effect of increasing deficits as economies slowed as austerity began to bite.

According to Harold McGee in On Food and Cooking (second edition, page 429), they are not simply pungent; «they produce a strange tingling, buzzing, numbing sensation that is something like the effect of carbonated drinks or of a mild electrical current (touching the terminals of a nine - volt battery to the tongue).

If rubbing it on didn't numb the pain, I'll bet the booze itself had a calming effect.

The American FDA has already issued a warning about the adverse effects of numbing medications for teething pain.

about the adverse effects of numbing medications for teething pain.

At any age, popsicles are welcome for their numbing and cooling effects: make your own with herb tea if you don't want your child to eat a lot of sugar or chemicals.

The drugs used in labor epidurals are powerful enough to numb, and usually paralyze, the mother's lower body, so it is not surprising that there can be significant side effects for mother and baby.

It left one of her legs totally numb after taking effect.

What if a laboring mother is just «immune» to the effects of anesthetic drugs meant to help numb the nerves that deal with the pain of labor contractions?

I considered numbing drugs to be the only option, ignoring all passing thoughts of side effects or complications.

Accordingly, depleting Numb - 1 and -2 from breast cancer cells reduced the levels of p53, whereas depleting Numb - 3 and -4 had no effect.

Anaesthetics are very useful agents in medicine, but they have long been known to have biological effects beyond simply numbing / sedating individuals.

Many people swear by these substances, others claim that they worsen depression, cause uncomfortable side effects and fail to treat the root cause of symptoms, numbing us to the experience and cause of our emotional pain and physical symptoms.

While I experienced many good benefits, one of the side effects was that I really began to feel the cold much more, particularly in my hands and feet which sometimes got quite numb.

In a nutshell, we become «numb» to the effects of sugar as such we would need to take in more sugar to achieve the same effect.

Not boring in the least, but the onslaught of effects has a mind - numbing affect on the brain.

Begins slavishly faithful to its low - key 1970s predecessor then sledgehammers auds with a numbing succession of shock edits and over-the-top horror effects.

A numbing combination of sloppy writing, vulgar art direction, high school acting, and bungled special effects — in short, par for the course for venerable hack Michael Anderson.

A certain disconnection, and perhaps a little concentration from the viewer is required to copiously appreciate Michael Winterbottomâ $ ™ s newest film â $ «a must for sci - fi fans who have been wishing for the second coming of Blade Runner instead of the mind numbing special - effects bonanza of say a Roland Emmerich pic.

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

«There's nothing original about the film, the performances are merely competent, and the overall effect is numbing and banal» — Glenn Sumi, NOW

Reading these two books in sequence, I came across a passage in Charles Glenn's foreword to class Between Memory and Vision that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in Does God Belong in Public Schools Glenn writes: «The effect of Supreme Court decisions over the past forty years was to treat religion as the only forbidden motivation for school choice.»

You'll numb yourself to the unimaginative, sometimes utterly nonsensical insults of the Rocket League riffraff to the point where they have literally no effect, but those moments of unconditional support from your teammates, purely out of the goodness of their hearts, will always make your day just a little bit brighter.

The effect was to numb, not entrance.