The numbing effect of grief.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : the numbing effects of grief; a story repeated with numbing regularity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : fingers numb with cold. ,a numb sensation. ,numb with grief. ,She was numb to their pleas for mercy.    From Dictionary.com. 

This was an example of what I (with brain numbing regularity) term a "least worst" option.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snoop Elsewhere Mate] Reference

Sing, Talk, Hum, times tables – thats usually brain numbing lol – try doing stupidly big numbers lol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winding down (or why my brain needs an off button.) «] Reference

Just kind of numbing myself to the madness that surrounds me.    From Wordnik.com.  [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference

A kind of numbing emptiness took possession of her which did not allow of her thinking and which held at bay any other feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tulips For Augusta]

2 and cater to every low i.q. sensational story grubbing and paparazzi feeding simpleton who likes this kind of brain numbing garbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin slams Senate health care vote] Reference

Where I live, they are often quite brain numbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moses was a basket case too! | My[confined]Space] Reference

Don’t accept this kind of numbing that comes when confronted with the bloodthirsty pursuit of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Why We Will Beat Them in the End] Reference

The cumulative effect of all this sports pathos was numbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Root, Root, Root For The Home Team] Reference

Indeed, the volume of horrors recounted can be a bit numbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [UPDATING THE HOLOCAUST] Reference

In the camp, the refugees quickly fell into a numbing routine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Family's Terrifying Odyssey] Reference

Still, there is evidence that violent games have a numbing effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anatomy of Violence] Reference

In recent years, other planes have crashed with numbing regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief, Deadly Flight] Reference

It's a dismal view of humanity that could be numbing over 490 pages.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An Act Of Blasphemy'] Reference

In fact, the book is larded with numbing dialectics and 25-cent words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting Words] Reference

The problems with this scenario are mind-numbing in their number and complexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

If you can get through the numbing detail, it all makes for a healthy corrective.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evils Of Markets] Reference

And they've gotten a ton of publicity, even if there's a numbing similarity to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Group's Odyssey: Beijing To Cbgb] Reference

It wasn't the numbing detail of the 1,342-page plan that was bothering the president.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clinton Sales Campaign] Reference

This mind-numbing disconnect is why the rest of the world so despises the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

The hostages had spent their last months wavering between hope, terror and numbing boredom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberated] Reference

Some people feel a little pain at the sight of the injection, but you can get numbing agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safety Before Beauty] Reference

Yet as movie experiences, they can feel numbing and forbidding, certainly for mass audiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [After The Survivors] Reference

The talks were intense, a marathon of violent mood swings and numbing restatements of position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deal Makers] Reference

There can be some significant pain as the filler is injected, but you can ask for numbing agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safety Before Beauty] Reference

"Just to see people on the other side of the world so excited about this first family, it was almost numbing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Obama’s Body Woman] Reference

He supported, for example, universal education as an antidote to the numbing effects of economic specialization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit Of Adam Smith] Reference

Weather: Our troopers are scheduled to go in December, the worst possible time in terms of snow, ice and numbing cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning About War The Hard Way] Reference

Banish toe-numbing cabin temperatures with a silk noil blanket from DreamSack, complete with built-in pocket for your feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip Sheet] Reference

Soldiers can experience depression, hypervigilance, insomnia, emotional numbing, recurring nightmares and intrusive thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [BATTLING THE EFFECTS OF WAR] Reference

After all, Graham and his followers made money by studying the mind-numbing details buried in the footnotes of annual reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Intelligent Investor] Reference

Suddenly, the mind-numbing tales of obscure land dealings and state-capital intrigue are something more alarmingly recognizable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitewater Torture] Reference

But the numbing effort to specify precisely what constitutes safety, or how standards should be met, is an exercise in litigious lunacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth Of Common Sense] Reference

The new approaches attract a host of mind-numbing monikers like "The New Paradigm" (from Republicans) and "The Third Way" (from Clinton).    From Wordnik.com.  [When Left Meets Right] Reference

If nothing turns up, they receive a mind-numbing briefing -- either in person or by conference call -- on the fine points of election law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al's Angst Over Fund-Raising, Ethnic Spying?, Pos] Reference