anaesthetised

Throughout the novel there are flashes of casual satire, building up to a sense that we moderns are too psychologically and aesthetically anaesthetised even to deserve an occult reality.

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan – review 2011

I saw the nice stomalogist/maxillary surgeon this afternoon at the curiously named Hôpital Deux Alices in Uccle, and she anaesthetised my jaw thoroughly and whipped out the errant fragments.

Gibbon Chapter XXI nwhyte 2010

In a statement given to Reprieve, Dr Mark Heath, a US expert on lethal injection drugs, agreed that the fact that Brandon's eyes remained open suggested he was not properly anaesthetised.

Executed man's mother urges ban on exports profiting from death penalty 2011

The reality is that for many women complications set in or the intensity of the contractions is just too painful and they end up hooked to oxytocin drips, anaesthetised with an epidural, with their feet in stirrups and surrounded by doctors with forceps at the ready.

Antenatal care goes two-tier as NCT classes boom and NHS classes are cut back. But who's suffering most? | Lucy Rock 2011

Either the post-traumatic stress disorder she describes in an afterword has left her so numb, so utterly anaesthetised, that a part of her is still unable to grasp what adult-child sex means in the real world – in which case, a kindly editor should have stepped in and saved her from herself.

Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011

She was anaesthetised by disbelief and premature grief.

Hayley Okines: 'There's a lot to be positive about' 2011

I shall try to post this to you, but already I grow anaesthetised and dull, for I do not believe I will have the time.

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 5/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar 2009

Kampfner, political journalist turned human rights campaigner, addresses the anaesthetised freedom of the city state of his birth, Singapore, and the insidious spread of Lee Kuan Yew's model democracy to ask whetheryou can have economic success without political freedom.

Freedom for Sale by John Kampfner 2010

"We're conscious that after a while you become anaesthetised to the plight of people."

Deepwater oil spill victims, from waitresses to cabbies and strippers, plead for BP payouts 2010

Out of the many pieces of healthcare advice issued to me by the excellent nursing staff, one proved more unpalatable than a full, un-anaesthetised colorectal examination.

Sue Perkins on the joy of the gym Sue Perkins 2010