The most common symptoms include significant changes in social and personal behavior, as well as a general blunting of emotions.

This blunting of a sharp instrument obscures the piece's topicality.

For once he welcomed it, welcomed the drive and the mania, the blunting of irrelevant feeling.

Closely related to sexual side-effects is the phenomenon of emotional blunting, or mood anesthesia.

Home and child-minding can have a blunting effect on a woman's mind, but only she can sharpen it."

People with schizophrenia often display what psychiatrists describe as a "blunting" of emotional response that makes it difficult for them to relate to others.

He and others said they seem better at easing the emotional blunting, withdrawal and depression often seen in schizophrenia.

These include insomnia, restlessness, agitation, irritability and emotional blunting.

Locke had at least expected a certain wariness following the blunting of the crossbow attack, but Barsavi stepped forward without apparent fear.

The reason tough guys don't dance, nostalgically speaking, is that they regard such sentimentality as a blunting of their hard, and hard-won, energetic edge.

Untouchables are similar to Pariahs, but are widely assumed to have less of a blunting effect (although an accurate comparison has never been made).

Teak, though easily worked, can cause severe blunting on edged tools because of the presence of silica in the wood.

Wouldn't DoD see this as a blunting of the US Military's technological advantage over other countries?

Drugs such as Topiramate cause problems such as mental blunting, word retrieval difficulties and irritability.

The blunting of our society's natural repulsion to torture by making fun out of the imitation of human cruelty is a dangerous direction.

Dwarf scholars had, with delicacy and care and the blunting of fifteen saw blades, removed a tiny slice of it.

The chief symptoms of schizophrenia include apathy, a blunting of emotions, delusions and the hearing of internal voices.

The lesion usually has calcification, poorly defined and irregular borders, and associated blunting of the costophrenic angles.

They also inhibit the formation of lymphocytes, primary cells of the immune response, resulting in an overall blunting of immune responses.

Additional side effects can be school phobia (a form of separation anxiety), depression, weight gain, and cognitive blunting (dulling of cognitive ability).

With long-term use and during withdrawal of benzodiazepines, treatment-emergent depression and emotional blunting may emerge and sometimes also suicidal ideation.

Findings include blunting of villi, hyperplasia of crypts and an increased number of lymphocytes in the lamina propria.

Henry James, of course, was not a person to accept laws or to make one of any circle in a sense which implies the blunting of the critical powers.

People with a subclinical syndrome may notice a seasonal blunting of normal levels of energy and enthusiasm that, like the full-blown syndrome, responds to light therapy.

There are distinct differences in the behavioral and emotional symptoms of the two dementias, notably, the blunting of emotions seen in FTD patients.

Now and then I come across as a little too blunt.

Mother looked as though not even she would have said anything so blunt.

They have a lot to talk about, often in blunt terms.

He might be more blunt than Americans are used to.

The blunt end is further away from the action itself.

A blunt sort, he never asked a single question about me, not even my name.

"I am sure we will talk in these clear and blunt terms."

Put in very blunt terms, the world is running out of fish.

How can these people be so blunt on national television?

To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq.

She almost said a blunt yes, but then considered the question.

No was the blunt and final answer, so we left.

You had to hand it to the old guy, he was blunt.

No, I think there's some people you have to be very blunt to.

I described my mother's life and death in blunt terms.

To be blunt, because there are far better games available.

She had been hit several times with a blunt object.

The process was blunt but effective, and the teachers' union went along.

A blunt point is difficult to push into hard ground.

Others in the military are more blunt about the effect on soldiers.

He was even more blunt in speaking to the press.

Because I'm going to ask you a blunt question about your feelings.

The only way to deal with someone like Johnson was to be blunt, he decided.

My blunt comment had made her look at me in a new way again.

To be so blunt my parents would decide not to ask another question.

A late delivery could also blunt the impact, these people said.

Never use these scissors to cut paper as this will blunt them.

She could anticipate what it would try and blunt the effect.

I looked at them and blunted my pencil against the paper.

Probably not, which somewhat blunts the impact of the project.

Whether that will blunt the Communists' gains is another matter.

It is not easy to work and blunts tools very quickly.

And both books have flaws that may blunt their effectiveness.

We'll want to blunt their charge and get the hell out of here!"

"This means I want to blunt your pain in the telling of what happened.

Time to get out before I blunt me own edge.'

But the cost issue has been blunted somewhat by a rise in the price of oil.

Some of that advantage may now be blunted by the poor stock market.

"That would certainly blunt the positive impact of the endorsement and may turn off many voters."

But they'd blunted the first rush while more of his people got themselves armed.

A long period of peace and general prosperity has blunted traditional issues.

But even better, it can blunt the impact that carbohydrates have on blood sugar.

And to rule, you must blunt the edge of the citizenry.

Already they fear his advances and this blunts their efforts in the east.

His words, blunted at the best of times, were barely understandable now.

Someone asked how the Bulls could have blunted the rally.

You and some major were mentioned as blunting the rev attack.

They might want to, but their feelers would be blunted.

Years of absence from such work had blunted my language abilities.

The impact of the Federal proposal may be blunted by something else: state opposition.