It soon becomes enervating, which is why politics rarely engage serious people's attentioo these days and are a falling market in media coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

A vain enervating and languid course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of Geneva] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-18] Reference

"I've been thinking, ies kind of enervating to live where ies warm-to-hot all the time -- and I think we've.    From Wordnik.com.  [And all the Stars a Stage]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Some Feminists Demanded in 1967] Reference

But away with the enervating reflections of grief!.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

Who has not suffered from their enervating effects?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

"More soul and brain enervating list," continued Evelyn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

The atmosphere was enervating here, and emotion is contagious.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference

Believing the Berkshire air rather enervating, Hawthorne moved in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

The heat, instead of being enervating, is stimulating and bracing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference

To-night the atmosphere was light and soft, brilliant and enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

"The air here being so poor and enervating," Littimer said, cynically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

It is a serious thing to leap from a luxurious, enervating warm bath into cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

He knew that the enervating climate of the Southern river city would never do for his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

Through the whole army was that enervating moldiness, lightened only by an occasional gleam from those.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

The weather is so enervating that it is impossible to get up very much enthusiasm over entertainments.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference

They seem usually to have been in the habit of inhaling an enervating moral and intellectual atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

"A useful phrase at times, of the nature of a tonic, amidst our enervating civilisation," she reflected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Oh, the slow, enervating, dull hours spent in idle and diffuse conversation on the dimly lighted veranda!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And in these places the air is apt to be both hot and impure, and all the physical conditions enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference

The other gave them time to fold their hands and indulge in a complacency, ridiculous as it was enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Or, in an enervating day of July, one may have longed to dine upon humming-bird, with rose-leaves for dessert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Such an atmosphere, it need hardly be said, is far more enervating than the hot and dry air of the Adelaide plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Scattered groups of lounging, idle men indicated the enervating influence of the sizzling 108 degrees in the shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

The heat, which in the uplands is pleasant, though rather too steady in the plains, becomes oppressive and enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But coming at a moment when our nerves were sufficiently unstrung by the dearth of tonics, they were doubly enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Middle EastThe Rise of NasrallahIsrael sometimes has a way of emboldening its enemies and enervating its peace partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

We find the north wind rather trying; it is enervating and brings with it much dampness; while it prevails food does not keep well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

The practice of wearing mufflers, or any tight wrapping round the neck region, is injurious and enervating to this part of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

For a short time in the midsummer of each year, Sydney is visited regularly by moist sea breezes, which are enervating to many persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

If the five-mile walk is too exhausting, then take a longer time getting to the point, when it will be exhilarating instead of enervating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference

It is Italy without the enervating heat and aridity which are such serious drawbacks to the enjoyment of its other charms by Northern folk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

We had no idea of the enervating effect it would have upon our physical systems, and as the water was but little past tepid, we stayed in a good long time.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

Lord Methuen's sympathetic coughs in the bed of the Orange River were heard at intervals throughout the day, the long, enervating day which did terminate at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference