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  • Stimulated by the sights and smells, you realise that you have arrived in a land of contrasts.†   (source)
  • You could train a laboratory pigeon with just two or three stimulation events.†   (source)
  • Next time, I'll try to think of something more stimulating to say."†   (source)
  • Like many dedicated educators, Dan Needham had made education his religion; Owen Meany lacked only the social and intellectual stimulation that a good school could provide.†   (source)
  • I was to stimulate her with questions, engage her with stories, read to her, go to museums, puppet shows, galleries.†   (source)
  • As a rule, I find public architecture stimulating.†   (source)
  • On it rested the prizes—Finny's icebox, hidden all these months in the dormitory basement, a Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with all the most stimulating words marked, a set of York barbells, the Iliad with the English translation of each sentence written above it, Brinker's file of Betty Grable photographs, a lock of hair cut under duress from the head of Hazel Brewster, the professional town belle, a handwoven rope ladder with the proviso that it should be awarded to someone…†   (source)
  • Tea and snacks could no longer stimulate our exhausted minds.†   (source)
  • He was not to be stimulated.†   (source)
  • Even the very same song, the 1812 Overture, hummed through the PA speakers—Rosewood played between-classes music because it was "mentally stimulating."†   (source)
  • He had a way of making science stimulating as well as challenging.†   (source)
  • Mr. Nielsen is a member of the chamber of commerce, and conversations often include discussion of initiatives and plans for stimulating business in this "unruly" economy, as he calls it.†   (source)
  • By the time I was in double digits most of the grave rubbings had been put down in the basement for storage, the spots on our suburban walls replaced with bright graphic prints meant to stimulate children.†   (source)
  • It's such a stimulating place to be.†   (source)
  • I think it's safe to say he's not here for my stimulating conversation.†   (source)
  • When their egg production begins to drop, the hens will be "force-molted" -- starved of food, water, and light for several days in order to stimulate a final spurt of egg laying before their life's work is done.†   (source)
  • A job like that even held the intellectual stimulation of making change and writing out credit slips.†   (source)
  • Ruth swaddled her mother in towels, rubbing her to stimulate her circulation.†   (source)
  • I knew it wasn't the stimulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends.†   (source)
  • The scene fascinated Laura Keene and stimulated her theatrical instincts.†   (source)
  • She tried to pull his hand away, but he was prepared for this sudden surge of muscle stimulation that always preceded stupor, and with great force clamped the cloth to her face.†   (source)
  • "But how to provoke, how to stimulate purchases—that's the conversion rate.†   (source)
  • Nothing since was as stimulating as the old days of letters, petitions, meetings, debates, recruitment, quarrels, rescue and downright sedition.†   (source)
  • Can't get too much stimulation, apparently.†   (source)
  • Which is the greater stimulation?†   (source)
  • 'Stimulating.'†   (source)
  • It had left her feeling battered and exhausted from the stimulation.†   (source)
  • When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants' hall - I mean of the calibre of, say, Mr Graham, with whom now, sadly, I seem to have lost touch - we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation.†   (source)
  • And so doctors gave Jai a steroid shot to stimulate the development of the baby's lungs.†   (source)
  • He also explained, with the satisfaction of a personal triumph, that these advances were due more than anything else to the freedom of navigation that he had fought for and which had stimulated competition: instead of a single company, as in the past, there were now three, which were very active and prosperous.†   (source)
  • The sky erupted with color, and the pungent air stimulated sensors in her brain Clarke had never realized existed.†   (source)
  • He likes stimulating conversation, but I never know what to say.†   (source)
  • She was stimulating instead of intimidating.†   (source)
  • All I remember thinking is that whatever it was that had stimulated her this way, I wanted it never to end.†   (source)
  • I got a cold wife; she's brilliant, she's stimulating, she's terrc; there's no love; that's okay too, just so long as we don't keep expecting everything to somehow even out for us before we die.†   (source)
  • He smoked to stimulate his mind and to set his ideas flowing.†   (source)
  • The previous midnight, when Dick had brought her to the room and told Perry that she was going to sleep there, Perry, though disapproving, had acquiesced, but if they imagined that their conduct stimulated him, or seemed to him anything other than a "nuisance," they were wrong.†   (source)
  • Manipulative therapy seeks to relieve pain naturally by stimulating the affected nerve points and relaxing tense, aching muscles.†   (source)
  • While I was stimulated by the Communist Manifesto, I was exhausted by Das Kapital.†   (source)
  • The startled Humbug dropped his cane and nervously replied, "Let me assure you, sir, on my honor as a gentleman, that I was merely an innocent bystander, minding my own business, enjoying the stimulating sights and sounds of the world of commerce, when this young lad—"†   (source)
  • There is simply no way to reproduce the routine of medication, exercise, and stimulation these rehab centers are using to keep your children alive.†   (source)
  • Our emails were short and to the point: he talked about Brain Camp, how it was stimulating but a lot of work, and I wrote about my mother and how stressed out she was.†   (source)
  • She was not an old woman, but already stiff and misshapen by toil and the lack of that saving salt of pride, the stimulation of joy, which keeps us erect and supple.†   (source)
  • What about stimulation?†   (source)
  • Max lockdown was torturous in its monotony and lack of stimulation; the hours and the days crawled by.†   (source)
  • Laborious as it was, he enjoyed the writing, for he found thechallenges it presented stimulating.†   (source)
  • I might get in a righteous frame of mind if I had that stimulation.†   (source)
  • The cause of the Flynn Effect isn't fully understood, but it affects primarily those with lower scores, who may not have received adequate nutrition, education, or stimulation.†   (source)
  • I had been helping her with electrical stimulation, adjusting her, and administering other chiropractic techniques.†   (source)
  • "Nursing stimulates the uterus, triggering it to expel the placenta," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Which most definitely stimulates not a small amount of guilt in me.†   (source)
  • The government stimulated these purchases through periodic national public relations efforts known as War Loan Drives.†   (source)
  • Vampyre saliva also secretes endorphins during blood drinking, which stimulate the pleasure zones of the brain, human and vampyre, and can actually simulate orgasm.†   (source)
  • If it's true that stimulation makes things bigger (breasts, etc.), perhaps he had very tiny lips when he was born and he has just overstimulated them by snogging all the time.†   (source)
  • At an age when most men are bored with their wives and need the stimulation of other women, I was convinced that only with Clara could I make love the way I had on my honeymoon: tirelessly.†   (source)
  • He smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey, and he thrived on good wit and stimulating intellectual conversation, particularly his own when he was lying about his age or telling that good one about God and his wife's difficulties in delivering Major Major.†   (source)
  • Stimulated by his dirty books, his collection of erotica, he decided which fantasy to act out in real life, didn't he?†   (source)
  • They were not born of a mother's womb; they were born of a stimulating phrase or two or from a basic situation.†   (source)
  • Anyway, whatever they have, it will be very interesting and stimulating, I'm sure.†   (source)
  • In the evenings, the two of them took turns reading to us in the belief that great literature would stimulate and eventually produce speech in Shiva.†   (source)
  • You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know.†   (source)
  • It must be both exhausting and quite stimulating.†   (source)
  • They ran the nobles' estates, collected the taxes, developed Polish industry, and stimulated her trade.†   (source)
  • Even the hustle and bustle of picketing and speechmaking seemed to stimulate me for the better; my wildest ideas paid off.†   (source)
  • I've always found conversations with you stimulating, Eve.†   (source)
  • Give him intellectual stimulation.†   (source)
  • To compound the pleasure and stimulation of the new life, there was the bonus of Jefferson and the flourishing of a friendship that under normal circumstances at home would most likely never have happened.†   (source)
  • Although 89-58 receives daily low-voltage electrical stimulation of his muscles to ensure a minimal life-sustaining mass, he resembles one of the starving children of any third-world country racked by drought and evil politics.†   (source)
  • You stimulate them!†   (source)
  • To this end, the prescribed course of treatment was that I had to sit in my darkened apartment for days with no stimulation.†   (source)
  • Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.†   (source)
  • He presses for a tax cut, to ward off a recession, he says, and backs it up with detailed financial specifics about the way in which cutting taxes would stimulate the economy.†   (source)
  • Very stimulating and thought-provoking.†   (source)
  • Some would argue that computers, word processors, and e-mail are stimulating writing and bringing our generation back to the written word—at least until computers begin to understand spoken language.†   (source)
  • They were attracted to this terror; it stimulated their own cruelty.†   (source)
  • His creation of an independent treasury system that eliminated the federal government from direct operation of the banking system was an inspired move and should have stimulated investment and spending.†   (source)
  • The hope was that these programs would be provocative, stimulating, and helpful to listeners.†   (source)
  • His body, under touch from all stimulation tonight, leans toward it, yearning.†   (source)
  • Commerce increases land values, improves the movement of agricultural products, stimulates the cultivation of land, and increases the quantity of money in a State.†   (source)
  • Mental stimulation.†   (source)
  • "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation," Astro said.†   (source)
  • Perhaps changing the position of the body helps to keep the circulation stimulated.†   (source)
  • Evasive, yet stimulating.†   (source)
  • I've written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content.†   (source)
  • My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.†   (source)
  • Nectar, with a coolness doubly stimulating: doubly good.†   (source)
  • From a mail-order house she ordered a battery-operated galvanic device which applied the stimulation of low-voltage electrical current to his paralyzed limbs.†   (source)
  • So Heaven sprang from the mind of a god, its conception stimulated by the desires of his fellows.†   (source)
  • It was stupid to say she had a good record of stimulating mass action at street level.†   (source)
  • It is stimulated by the very things that should arouse sympathy —their poverty, their overcrowding, their weakness, and this inability to fight back.†   (source)
  • To stimulate their minds and give them something to talk about he gave free access to the periscope to anyone who cared to use it, though there was little to look at.†   (source)
  • Realizing after months of insomnia that this might be the last great effort his health would permit, Webster stimulated his strength for the speech by oxide of arsenic and other drugs, and devoted the morning to polishing up his notes.†   (source)
  • and spent a stimulating hour with its bright young men.†   (source)
  • Much of that was for the purpose of stimulating brain patterns.†   (source)
  • As he came closer, he inhaled a rife and stimulating man smell.†   (source)
  • Apparently the change is stimulated by an environment in which all the animals are of the same sex.†   (source)
  • Done to stimulate responses in the killzone, where the Flare does its damage.†   (source)
  • If anything, it may stimulate a pattern in the killzone that we hadn't expected.†   (source)
  • It hadn't occurred to me that one of us might find these events brilliantly stimulating.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by over-stimulating the mind.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized how sweltering the room was, how stimulated my sweat glands had gotten.†   (source)
  • Can't understand what people see in all this artificial stimulation.†   (source)
  • The Psychs say it will stimulate a lot of the patterns we need.†   (source)
  • He's been stimulated too much—way more than the average person living their life day to day."†   (source)
  • When I read to Old Man Treadwell, it's not because I find those tabloids stimulating.†   (source)
  • Ultraviolet light stimulated growth under all CULTUREDESIG -779.†   (source)
  • With any luck Dr. Myles Bancroft can stimulate that memory.†   (source)
  • The combination of visitors and presents stimulated the children beyond all reasoning.†   (source)
  • He wanted to keep her senses stimulated.†   (source)
  • I realize you might be a bit pressed for time, but I work better with a little stimulation.†   (source)
  • And was he engaged in an act of unnatural oral stimulation?†   (source)
  • We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.†   (source)
  • We watch when we are stimulated by all the whizzes and bangs of the medium.†   (source)
  • These tales stimulated my childish imagination, and usually contained some moral lesson.†   (source)
  • At the same time it may provide enough nicotine for taste and sensory stimulation.†   (source)
  • Wait, what really matters is stimulation.†   (source)
  • Mimmi and Salander did not have the same taste in clothes, furniture, or intellectual stimulation.†   (source)
  • The effect isn't permanent, but it does stimulate the memories of most subjects.†   (source)
  • I've found that they stimulate the memories of my lambs," he said, handing me a white slip.†   (source)
  • Oxygen inhibited growth in all circumstances, but carbon dioxide stimulated growth.†   (source)
  • The memory stimulation even seems to help some subjects remember the dreams them-selves.†   (source)
  • Kids don't watch when they are stimulated and look away when they are bored.†   (source)
  • It was the beginning of many such afternoons, all of them stimulating, cordial, and memorable.†   (source)
  • Brazelton favored early, ardent stimulation—an "interactive" child.†   (source)
  • For a time Lee tried to stimulate Adam to awareness, but Lee was a busy man.†   (source)
  • He felt stimulated by it all, and the sexual stimulation was the least of it.†   (source)
  • Her absence had provoked the most stimulating week of teaching I had ever enjoyed.†   (source)
  • He felt stimulated by it all, and the sexual stimulation was the least of it.†   (source)
  • I told them what I was looking for — you could be very specific there, take them a picture or a video stimulation, stuff like that, and they'd do their best to match you up.†   (source)
  • It stimulates trade.†   (source)
  • The simulations stimulate the amygdala, which is responsible for processing fear, induce a hallucination based on that fear, and then transmit the data to a computer to be processed and observed.†   (source)
  • In that case, why are their own criminal organs not more stimulated, as they eat meat and chickens and bacon and eggs and cheese, and as much as they can get.†   (source)
  • Then Owen Meany circulated through the family, shaking hands, saying he was sorry; such a range of feelings flashed across the mother's face—she appeared contradictively stimulated to flirt with him and to kill him.†   (source)
  • According to the consultant, Mrs. Grace V. Mirman, the challenge for the parents of someone "highly gifted" was to find ways to keep the child engaged and stimulated.†   (source)
  • Since it's only the blue tissue and the pheromones released by it that stimulate the males, there's no more unrequited love these days, no more thwarted lust; no more shadow between the desire and the act.†   (source)
  • It's been … stimulating.†   (source)
  • Young smart people like Da5id and Hiro, who take the risk of living in the city because they like stimulation and they know they can handle it.†   (source)
  • A hunk of bread, a mug of weak tea, meat at dinner but not much of it, because overfeeding on rich foods stimulates the criminal organs of the brain, or so say the doctors, and the guards and keepers then repeat it to us.†   (source)
  • But since I was always the type that needed my mind stimulated constantly, and because I had a little trouble with self-control, I was always into something.†   (source)
  • It stimulated my libido and I told myself that it was educational because it informed me of the difficulties in the secret world of the pervert.†   (source)
  • Now she was communicating with clients all over the planet, commanding six screens, training a new group of newbies, and altogether feeling more needed, more valued, and more intellectually stimulated than she ever thought possible.†   (source)
  • I had then, over those days of struggling with the staff plan, expended a significant amount of thought to ensuring that Mrs Clements and the girls, once they had got over their aversion to adopting these more 'eclectic' roles, would find the division of duties stimulating and unburdensome.†   (source)
  • They first adopted the fighting stance of males, they developed the mating whistle of males, they stimulated the hormones and grew the gonads of males, and eventually they successfully mated with females.†   (source)
  • But I loved being with my cousins; they were so vastly stimulating that I could rarely sleep in their house and would lie awake all night, waiting for them to pounce on me, or for them to let Firewater, the boxer, into my room, where he would lick me to death; or I would just lie awake imagining what exhausting contests I would encounter the next day.†   (source)
  • They began their plans to stimulate and map the brain patterns of all known human emotions and study how we operate despite having the Flare rooted inside our brains.†   (source)
  • And on the regulation that boarders were not allowed to enjoy more than three weekends off-campus in a single term: "ARE WE SO SIMPLE, IN THE ADMINISTRATION'S VIEW, THAT WE ARE CHARACTERIZED AS CONTENT TO SPEND OUR WEEKENDS AS ATHLETIC HEROES OR FANS OF SPECTATOR SPORTS; IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF US MIGHT FIND MORE STIMULATION AT HOME, OR AT THE HOME OF A FRIEND—OR (EVEN) AT A GIRLS' SCHOOL?†   (source)
  • He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.†   (source)
  • It was all meant to stimulate an array of emotions and brain patterns, from confusion to disorientation to outright terror.†   (source)
  • But the artificial heat and mustard plaster that I had applied warmed his cold body and stimulated his nerves.†   (source)
  • On the few occasions when they couldn't make a particular movement, they went next door to the UCSF anatomy department, where a surgeon they knew would stick them with a needle and electrically stimulate the recalcitrant muscle.†   (source)
  • Now it seemed that what she had thought was maturity, serenity and compassion was only the tranquillity that follows a joyful stimulation.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters of recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment.†   (source)
  • For all my heightened anticipation of the union of a husband and wife, I must admit to you now, dear friend, that I find a seance quite a good deal more stimulating.†   (source)
  • He taught them about the different grasses and herbs that grew in the fields, and made them smell them and taste them, even caress them, until they were able to identify them one by one according to their healing properties: this one to calm the mind, that one to get rid of diabolic influence, this one to make the eyes shine, that one to strengthen the stomach, this to stimulate the flow of blood.†   (source)
  • At his most elevated moments, he is so exciting and stimulating to be around: animated, courteous and entertaining; at his low points he is sullied, dark and brooding.†   (source)
  • Derrick Brooks helped children, in so many ways, to be the best they could be and took them on trips to stimulate their thirst for learning.†   (source)
  • One of the promising efforts to stimulate change in the Arab world is led by Soraya Salti, a thirty-seven-year-old Jordanian woman who is promoting entrepreneurship in middle schools and high schools.†   (source)
  • " He didn't believe anything of the kind--he just liked to stimulate the boy once in a while, and Pea too, though Pea was an exceptionally hard man to stimulate, being insensitive to most fears.†   (source)
  • Stimulated by the enthusiasm that Jose Arcadio showed in her companionship, she confused the form and the occasion, and all of a sudden she threw the whole world on top of him.†   (source)
  • When he asks them to stimulate the blood flow by manipulating Lincoln's arms in an up-and-down, back-and-forth manner, they instantly kneel down and each take an arm.†   (source)
  • Indeed, it was considered wise to stimulate the young to fill themselves with pudding, by the assurance that the boys who managed to eat the most of it should be helped most abundantly to the meat, which was to follow.†   (source)
  • Her sudden appearance seemed to stimulate my intestinal musicians to more splendid efforts, and, before I could think of any feasible way of excusing myself, Angeline wrinkled her lips, bared her superb white teeth in an expression of cold disdain, and vanished.†   (source)
  • "Or maybe it's because I'm stimulated by the idea of wearing shoes that will make my arches scream for the next couple hours."†   (source)
  • But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy recreating them over and again-those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers.†   (source)
  • Their goal was twofold: to call attention to the wartime need for purchasing government bonds, and to stimulate citizens to leave their homes and offices and head for one of the many "buying booths" scattered about towns and cities, where the actual paper could be purchased.†   (source)
  • The reason that Italy had entered the war, Guariglia had said, was to stimulate the production of tortellini.†   (source)
  • A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.†   (source)
  • "Monica needed intellectual stimulation," she said, nodding across the library, where I could see Monica, chewing gum and looking exhausted, examining some books in nonfiction.†   (source)
  • Her classes were stimulating, her grades were excellent, and even though she hadn't heard from the Denver Art Museum, her adviser recommended her for an internship at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance would later write, in his report on Doc, that "I observed him repeatedly running to any sector of the company zone of action to render first aid," and that "it would be hard to estimate the number of lives he saved by his prompt and skillful administration of medical aid, carried out with complete disregard for his own safety, nor to fully express how stimulating his devotion to duty was to the morale of those who served with him and were treated by him."†   (source)
  • In particular, we will be looking for damage to blood vessels, since this releases tissue thromboplastin, and stimulates clotting at the site of the damage.†   (source)
  • I told them that my release alone would not stem the violence in the country or stimulate negotiations.†   (source)
  • She had learned to eat when she was already the respectable mother of a family, looking for a way for her children to eat better and not by means of any artificial stimulation of their appetites but through the absolute tranquility of their spirits.†   (source)
  • At this time, I was particularly fascinated by whatever might help me improve athletically, and so we turned the building of muscle and protein's role in that into a science project, with an emphasis on any dangers or side effects from supplements and activities that would stimulate or affect the building of muscle.†   (source)
  • Strassnitzky had decided that everyone was too fat, and that to return to the capital like well fed geese would stimulate inquiries about the life they had been living.†   (source)
  • While we argue that schooling girls does stimulate economic growth and foster stability, for example, it is also true that one of the most educated parts of rural India is the state of Kerala, which has stagnated economically.†   (source)
  • On the one hand I was assigned the sorts of stimulating books that would not have been on a South African reading list; on the other, the authorities inevitably regarded many of them as unsuitable and thus banned them.†   (source)
  • The soldiers in the Bell Tower refrained from firing, not wanting to alert or stimulate the Austrians into doing more than they were inclined to do, but the enemy had seen the figures on the exposed slope.†   (source)
  • There should be "no forcing, no pressure, no undue stimulation" during the first two years of a child's life, Holt believed; the brain is growing so much during that time that overstimulation might cause "a great deal of harm."†   (source)
  • You can't stimulate my memory banks because you can't record the brain signatures associated with my dreams because I'm not dreaming.†   (source)
  • He stimulated the cadre's creative powers as they conjured up new and inexorable methods to assault the human spirit.†   (source)
  • Well, it's rather …. speculative, I must admit, but here you go: I have been developing a way to stimulate memories.†   (source)
  • Alessandro thought that if he paid and demanded close attention he might catch a fault in treatment or stimulate the doctors and nurses to do so, and that if he kept up the privileged bearing that, oddly enough, had begun as a fugitive's method of evading capture, he could provide for his father a small margin that in desperate circumstances might be critical in preserving his life.†   (source)
  • At first, the war stimulated enrollment and conferred a sense of mission on the school, a stature and an eminence it did not enjoy during those rare times when the United States was not trading the blood of its sons for the blood of other, darker, sons.†   (source)
  • Their early morning thoughts were stimulated by the confluence of great energy and minds freshly drawn from oblivion.†   (source)
  • I was playing good ball; I was in love with Annie Kate Gervais; I was taking Sunday afternoon walks with Abigail; my grades were good and my classes stimulating; there was an extraordinary harmony and contentment among my roommates.†   (source)
  • Then I told them that when I found out that school was a place of time clocks and rules, of teachers more concerned with attendance reports than with students, and students praying for the day of graduation when their reprieve from the stale grip of public education would be granted, I tried to make my classes a stimulating experience for my students …. life experiences, creative experiences.†   (source)
  • When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated.†   (source)
  • No, wait a minute, I'll show you something," and he would begin hunting for some newspaper with a controversial article, banging the drawers of bis desk and stimulating his eloquence with this noisy fuss.†   (source)
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