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Accordionists are deadening too, though they do not wear earplugs or play deep in the woods.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some books are vacant, some are deadening, some are pestilential.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen