Word: deadening
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...dwarfed by the reunion with her father in the final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...
...most troubling all evening was the sameness of it all. Any melody had a hard time expressing a specific feeling of its own; rather it would drift into a nostalgic sitting-round-the-fire sort of mood which could be poignant but little else. This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...
...probably the longest, certainly the most intensely sustained metaphor in modern fiction, Greene has made the leper a symbol of modern man, and of the "long disease" of modern life. It is the leper's fate to die piecemeal: limbs, members, features deaden and fall from the still living body. But it is not on these horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis...
BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
...visit the Dalai Lama and see for themselves that he was not being held "under duress" as the Red radio proclaimed. Nehru hoped that conditions would "some day" relax so that the God-King might go home to Tibet. His own contribution, whether intentionally or not, was to deaden the world's outrage, while the Red Chinese put down the rebellion...