Inuring

Lately he's begun to wonder whether his photographs -- and the surfeit of other video and still imagery we've seen in the past few months -- are simply inuring people to the reality of severe whether. ❋ David Schonauer (2011)

Because, frankly, I think this is a horseshit rationalization, and a way of inuring the book against criticism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, rather than inuring ourselves to the natural world we strip bare to it. ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2011)

Could it also be that, during that same 30 years, U.S. income distribution has begun to resemble that of a developing country, with our exposure to poverty elsewhere inuring us to eroding living standards at home? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, here's maybe a clue about Hillary supporters inuring themselves to Hillary's Republican-lite memes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And inuring the public for spin and bs in the future possibly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Southern whites in their racist hatred and the black community in its squalor -- inuring men and women on both sides to injustice far more efficiently than it inspired them to overcome it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Their guides, also, whom you shall choose with reference to such duty, will take care to conduct the crusaders by difficult and circuitous routes; which will be doing them a real service, by inuring them to the hardships of the country and climate, which they would otherwise have to face without seasoning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I believe that just as you can take a 17-year-old and put him through basic training, inuring him to violence, we can take a person who is insensitive and make him sensitive to others 'pain. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You are right of course, but I think this may actually support Ben's contention...as the media raises the marginal attention threshold by inuring the public to a previous level of violence, the collective media must jump a higher violence hurdle rate to get attention - and such horror inflation will continue to drive the "shaving" effect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sometimes this is done by inuring ourselves to the scary by participating in it in a safe way: watching scary movies that we can turn off or walk away from. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After years of research, Joiner has found that suicide victims often "work up" to the final act by inuring themselves to danger and pain in smaller ways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is tragically ironic that the future of humankind may very well depend upon the infamously short American attention span inuring a jaded public to a demagogue who is rapidly approaching the limit to which he can ratchet up a rhetoric that millions have already tuned out. ❋ Unknown (2006)