Being familiar with guns and their destructive capabilities fostered respect for them and was not "desensitizing" as many "consequence free" violent video games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriots or Extremists? Growing up in a militia] Reference

Too much novelty becomes tedious and desensitizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.] Reference

Condom desensitizing desensitizing, Condom desensitizing and Condom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The New Three-Legged Stool] Reference

In other words, violent video games appear to have a desensitizing e.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of Carnagey, Anderson, and Bushman] Reference

It would also help me with my stated goal of desensitizing myself to gore.    From Wordnik.com.  [nessus Diary Entry] Reference

They're dumbing it down and desensitizing people to hysterical accusations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Sargent: Saturday's Keller Op-ed Reveals Sad State of Our Daily Conversation] Reference

I had no pain from the desensitizing injections and the procedures went well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excellent Dentist in Mazatlan] Reference

He followed it slowly, desensitizing his hearing as he inched his way toward the sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Of Kin]

He destroys our sense of social cohesion, desensitizing us to the humiliation of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacha Baron Cohen, working as a tool.] Reference

Personally, I think it's a desensitizing scheme...and too often we get caught up into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coraline (2009)] Reference

Was it just that sufficient time had passed, desensitizing the stories enough to be told?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Witness] Reference

I would also add that we are in danger of desensitizing ourselves to questionable elections.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Daily Voting News' For November 14, 2006] Reference

Again, brutal and violent images on TV saturate the airwaves, desensitizing young men like Joe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

STUDENT: Back to what you were saying about -- you said earlier about desensitizing our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President In Discussion With Students] Reference

I hope and pray that everyone wakes up and sees that they are desensitizing our children to reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009] Reference

Somehow, that's dulled alittle cause well, for one, I hate it, and for another, army's desensitizing me.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference

I used to worry that the annual onslaught was desensitizing him to the loving sentiment behind the gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gifted Child: When Loved Ones] Reference

Hartman verbally and physically abuses his troops with the intention of desensitizing and hardening them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Del you have been all about movie trivia lately. Here is one for you, but a little story first...] Reference

Years will go by performing these “treatments,” thereby desensitizing us all to their acceptableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue?] Reference

And, in the case of older children, reviving it after it has succumbed to conditioning and desensitizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Benke: What's Your Word?] Reference

What he does have, though, is a sensibility — a crass and desensitizing one, according to his many critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay] Reference

It's very desensitizing, very stimulating and in fact has a direct correlation with later aggressive behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2007] Reference

The young inventor explained that he had used as a desensitizing agent a trace amount of a transition metal sulfide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden State] Reference

These experiments show that mental training can have an autonomous function, influencing the body, even desensitizing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference

I haven't seen the movie, but I have read the book and in that, at least, the scary elements are not at all the desensitizing sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coraline (2009)] Reference

There seems to be something dehumanizing and desensitizing about democracy – when the best must lower its standards to the level of the worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Logos of Bangladesh] Reference

Otherwise, you end up desensitizing your target market, creating expectancy and perhaps even more importantly, hurting your reputation as a credible resource.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selling Through Scarcity: Screwing It Up] Reference

Meanwhile, have you seen that FOX "News" had one of their reporters undergo waterboarding, in order to start desensitizing the American public to such practices?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

The main focus will initially be on the specific desensitizing effects war games might have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of Media] Reference

A pilot trial in Britain has shown success in desensitizing peanut allergies, giving scientists hope that a cure is in sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [LT Saloon] Reference

With regards to researching the specific desensitizing effects as described above one could argue it to be the most relevant dimension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of Media] Reference