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Example sentences for: deadened

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It's as if he conceived The Phantom Menace as a Japanese No pageant and has purposely deadened his actors, directing them to stand stiffly in the dead center of the screen against matte paintings of space or some futuristic metropolis and deliver lines alternately formal or bemusing.
Finney plays Dr. Sloper as a sour and grave man in whom all feeling has been deadened since his wife died giving birth to Catherine.