Enervating

It soon becomes enervating, which is why politics rarely engage serious people's attentioo these days and are a falling market in media coverage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yes, I'm critical, but I'm also firmly in this show's grip and don't deny it. 24 is a classic example of why "enervating" rhymes with "entertaining." ❋ Unknown (2008)

For your own sake, nip this kind of enervating speculation in the bud. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If we wanted to bully the weak, we’d support the kind of enervating garbage that liberals have spent the last fifty years trying to push onto the disadvantaged. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"I've been thinking, ies kind of enervating to live where ies warm-to-hot all the time -- and I think we've ❋ Blish, James (1960)

What was needed was the creation of the “sober, industrious, and thrifty” worker who rejected “riotous living,” “the display of enervating luxury,” and “the insane attempt to keep up appearances which are not legitimate.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

But you have tended ever to flee from unpleasantness and raised voices at any cost for the sake of what I have always understood to be a kind of détente that lasts as long as it takes for all to be forgotten—in my opinion, an equally enervating character flaw on your side. ❋ Glenn Klopfenstein (2011)

Hunt's bold innovation is to bring that "black dog" to furry life as an insistent, insidious and enervating presence, sometimes known as Black Pat and sometimes - taking the name of Churchill's home - as Mr. Chartwell. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The movie goes back and forth between that gigantic alien's journey across our familiar skies and Kirsten Dunst's psychological state -- maximum severity depression, observed in enervating clinical detail and maybe the best depiction of mental illness ever filmed, by the way. ❋ Thomas De Zengotita (2011)

"You can agree with Rand's critique of collectivism as enervating and soul-destroying without adhering to her overarching philosophy." ❋ Unknown (2011)

A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. ❋ Jennifer Lauck (2011)

When I first wrote about the link between career success and emotional conflict in Modern Madness a couple of decades ago, I found that the main conflicts people typically experienced were enervating trade-offs and feelings of self-betrayal -- especially around personal values and ideals that clashed with the behavior and attitudes necessary for career advancement. ❋ Douglas LaBier (2011)

Yup, we'll all resolve to shrug off our enervating Olympics-related cynicism if you lot promise to deliver 75 feel-gold golds. ❋ Unknown (2011)