Even the most inured among them find it hard to look a dead child in the eyes.

Each change, however small, augments the sum of new conditions to which the race has to become inured.

Any traveler of the space lanes becomes inured to strange native races.

The hideously inured Prince would still go through oceans of pain, both physical and mental.

Mr. Rachlin said he never became as inured as the detectives.

"If you run out of cartridges let me know," he called softly and grinned at Smiley's inured silence.

"But when you do something, however groundbreaking it might be, the consumer becomes inured to it.

'One becomes inured even to insight,' Holmes said, with not the slightest trace of conceit in his voice.

The review itself is stuffed with the usual unthinking cliches to which anyone with an interest in Bowie's career quickly becomes inured.

As time passes, Prendick becomes inured to the grotesqueness of the Beast Folk.

In a measure of how inured residents here have become to mayhem, within two hours the market area was again so crowded that it was difficult to walk around.

Because they must dig where the ore is, mining companies tend to be more inured than most to the vagaries of doing business in stormy corners of the world.

But eventually Custine, like most foreigners in Russia today, becomes inured: The Russian spirit, wedded as it is to the idea of uniformity, cannot achieve genuine order.

One cell line even learned over time to ignore the repeated stimulus, an example of habituation, in which an organism becomes inured to a stimulus through habitual exposure to it.

Further, the tunnel was also strangely attractive to large amounts of sparrows that came to populate it, living from pilfered horse feed and becoming quite inured to the regular explosions.

In a part of the world where one quickly becomes inured to the sight of scrawny, red-eyed, gun-toting teenage boys, there was an astonishing sight today along this capital's main road.

That said a tug of war is expected to take place over his services with Declan Kidney also thinking of calling up lightning fast Crunchie to replace the inured Zebo.

"When you have a chancellor who gets into office and says every child will read, then you hear some pathetic story about a kid who can't read by high school, people become inured and cynical."

While the color of the prints changes, they repeat the same image of the electric chair over and over again, to the point where we become inured, even oddly attracted to the chilling subject matter.

A writer becomes inured to rejection - at least, he or she is expected to - but the editors had given me all kinds of assurances that I took as promises, and this rejection only compounded the pain.

ST. LOUIS BLUES--Placed F Ryan Johnson and F Vladimir Orszagh on inured reserve.

Fifteen years of work had more or less inured me, but at that hour of the morning, and in my condition, I knew that my stomach wouldn't be able to stand the sight of a squirming pinkish creature.

WENDELL STEAVENSON: For a long time I used to roll my eyes at the passivity and what I saw as the inured and ground down people in places like Egypt and Syria and Jordan.

Acts of bravado usually tempt swift retribution from forces outside the control of the characters, force which is wielded with such offhand irony by the author that one eventually becomes inured to their pain, and able to predict to some extent when one has gotten above themself and about to fall.

Besides, if Michael Strogoff had already become attached to his horse, the horse himself seemed to become inured, by degrees, to the fatigue of such a journey, and provided that he got several hours of repose daily, his rider might hope that he would carry him beyond the invaded provinces.

As a result, much of the population has become inured to poor service.

He should have been inured to them by now, but it was not so.

Not that I am completely inured to what people say.

When working with this population, you become inured to a low success rate.

How long will it be, before I'm inured to this?

The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism.

How long would it take Americans to become similarly inured?

And most people, except for the religious right, seem to be getting inured to it all.

We are being inured to the proposition that Bush has not won.

We have become inured to this horror of a future that is already upon us.

Long years in space had inured him to this familiar motion.

If something appalling goes on long enough, people become inured to it.

The camp followers, even the children, were inured to them.

It also appears to have inured him to pressure from regulators.

Does one ever become inured to the possibility of death?"

"While to the sun you are somewhat inured by reason of your mixed blood."

She'd been expecting to die for a year now, and had long ago inured herself to it.

How inured we've become to the vocabulary - and reality - of security.

"We're in such a weird moment where people are desperate for more information but inured to so much."

By now, he was almost inured to the idea.

By now they're probably inured to the beach boys and girls in their midst.

In a sense, her son had been inured to stress as a fetus.

She had thought herself inured to the horror of such cruelty.

I want to say I am inured to the pain.

You get so inured to writing that without it there isn't much left really.