This you must do to anaesthetise yourself against life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coalition of the Militant Liberals] Reference

Warm fuzzy feelings win hands down because they anaesthetise reality and blank out altogether those difficult issues which require difficult decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Obama] Reference

It helped anaesthetise your sprained ankle, but made you more than a little melancholy, and you lay awake until long into the night thinking about Kasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Test Of Faith: Julian Gilmour: Reader Scifi Fiction | SciFi UK Review] Reference

Working as a gardener at the University of Cape Town aged 14, he was asked to assist in the new surgical laboratory where he learned to anaesthetise dogs for research purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It was to anaesthetise the Labour party while he turned it into a vehicle to make him electable and his newly espoused Thatcherism irreversible, much as Attlee had made welfarism irreversible in 1945.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we shouldn't change because they don't, our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way?] Reference

Anyway, the most obvious distinction is that the sociopath would presumably remove the implant if he could, while most of us would not want to anaesthetise the agenbite of inwit, if this were somehow possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Lovely, Lovely Ludwig Van!] Reference

Yet wide reading doesn't allow them to recalibrate the way they think about their experience; instead, it serves as a narcotic, potent and addictive, whose cumulative effect is to anaesthetise the rest of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartbreak by Craig Raine] Reference

And he gets away with it, because he has the most amazing headful of facts and information that he can talk for so long about any subject under the sun that he can totally anaesthetise the brain of the questioner and the listening public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do AMs work as hard as MPs?] Reference

Among all the delectable smells of hitherto unknown cuisines lay the insidious gong of drains, but it meant only that some gourmet family had just opened a duryan, that delicious fruit whose stink can anaesthetise an entire street when the wind is right.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

For years it has tried to anaesthetise its supporters by limiting reference to "Europe" to just a few empty "Eurosceptic" slogans, otherwise seeking to suppress any proper discussion of just how far this new system of government now dictates how our country is run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booker] Reference

Rose, knowing that such a necklace existed, but not realising that the tape, if found, wasn't itself worth much and certainly not a million, may have hungered for it fiercely enough to anaesthetise everyone around at Bon-Bon's house with cyclopropane, and gather up every videotape in sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

I want to hear how it'll amuse and distract me; how it plans to anaesthetise me into a numb, trancelike state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Spanish newspaper El Pais said his injury was so serious that doctors did not even taken time to anaesthetise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

University of California revealed that, at least for women, the touch or sight of a partner seems to anaesthetise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

'How do you lot manage to anaesthetise the part of your brains that governs self respect long enough to participate in this drivel?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Roth tells TMZ the doctor couldn't anaesthetise his foot because of swelling - the medic was forced to pluck the spikes out with a pair of tweezers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

The newspaper El Pais said Tomas 'injury was so serious that the bullring doctors who first operated on him did not even take time to anaesthetise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Nine News] Reference

This isn't a post about daft doctors and silly nurses though, after all if I were called upon to anaesthetise someone I'd certainly make a pig's ear of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

On the other hand, if you are anyone else with an interest in British football, or most other top-level sports, then the temptation must be to seek solace in strong drink; anything to anaesthetise the pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we should not change because they do not; our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"It's not an experiment drug, it's used in existing protocol and it's used in hospitals all across this nation and in the world," Terry Collins said, referring to its application to anaesthetise patients ahead of surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

As someone who’s worked as a veterinary assistant I can see this backfiring, in that rabbits are rather difficult to anaesthetise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuter Your Bunny Day - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I’m so sorry to hear about your dog – having had to make the tough decision to anaesthetise my 19-year-old cat a couple of years ago, I can’t hear about other people losing their beloved pets without both empathy AND sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Love, loss and deadlines] Reference

While this piece …. in the Global Arab Newtwork also calls for the U. S not to withdraw from the peace "process", and takes issue with Mr Friedman's assertion that: "if the status quo is this tolerable for the parties, then i say, let them enjoy it … i just don't want to subsidise or anaesthetise it any more" Is there an argument that says the best way forward for the Middle East process to let them get on with it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC World Have Your Say] Reference

Conspiracy to enslave UK citizens by making them unnecessarily dependent on the state (Count One); Conspiracy to force UK nationals to claim benefits to pay higher taxes (Count Two); Incitement of poor people to pay more tax than rich people (Count Three); Solicitation of multiple tax revenues by stealth (Count Four); Attempt to obstruct, interfere, impair, impede and defeat the right of UK nationals to independence (Count Five); Conspiracy to provide material support and resources to mesmerise and anaesthetise UK citizens (Count Six); Attempt to conceal and/or falsely represent their true status as an enemy of the people (Count Seven).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

53-inch plasma screen with a glass of something cheeky and watched a bit more mindless telly to anaesthetise the consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Tryin 'to anaesthetise the way that you feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catfish Stew] Reference

What he did about that was to anaesthetise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference