 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 296 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1927 - 342 psl.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the;r occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 psl.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident. ... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 psl.
...discriminating powers of the mind," bringing about "a state of almost savage stupor," Wordsworth writes: The most effective of these causes are the great national...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. "The rapid communication of intelligence hourly"; this is Wordsworth's resonant equivalent for "journalism."... | |
 | Deborah Anne Dooley - 1995 - 304 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...and the increasing accumulation of men in cities" (Prose Works, 128). "I am past thirty, and three parts iced over and my pen, it seems to me is... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 316 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 310 psl.
...disctiminating powers of the mind, and unfitting n for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state ot almost savage torpor. The most effective of these...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasmg accumulation ol men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 psl.
...sensationalism as he perceives it, and he even offers a thumbnail sociology to explain what has gone wrong: "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident" has proved responsible, he says, for the general loss of discrimination. The invaluable works of our... | |
 | Paul Morrison - 1996 - 188 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 psl.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
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For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective... 
