1.  Cynicism abounds, especially about the corrupt new order that has replaced the coercively deadening old one.

2.  Diverting money and resources back to defense is just what the Russian economy does not need as it struggles to shake off decades of deadening Communist management.

3.  Eventually, she said, she settled into the deadening routine at Esmor.

4.  For now, there is the deadening feeling of economic inactivity.

5.  Fortunately they also taught him how to give deadening injections.

6.  Freedom of thought has replaced the deadening conformity of a single ideology.

7.  Good and bad apples are to be found among whites and blacks, Asians and Hispanics, cops and robbers, thus avoiding the deadening hand of political correctness.

8.  He later added: "Live lives of opposition to the deadening status quo."

9.  I know it's not fair to compare the deadening experience of flying on commercial airlines with having fun with kites.

10.  I refuse to spend my precious lifetime trapped in the narrowest, most deadening definition of reality our culture offers.