Or it might be a paying gig that's profitable in the short run but a career deadener over time.

"Habit, the great deadener" has proven more tenacious than inspiration.

And, as Beckett said, "habit is the great deadener."

But habit is a great deadener.

She looked at me out of the corner of her eye as she swabbed my face with nerve deadener.

For the Matsumotos, the Japanese-American couple at the heart of the play, habit is indeed a great deadener.

There was no discernible change in Elrood, but Fenring knew the nerve deadener had taken effect, instantaneously.

The floor was pale blue linoleum tile, the walls creamy yellow, the dropped ceiling half white sound deadener and half shiny fluorescents.

He also called it "the greatest sterilizer of inspiration, the greatest deadener of originality, the greatest destroyer of talent."

I recognized the rod as a pick-up deadener, a device that kept sound from reaching listening devices, and then Matthew pressed it to the wall by the doorway and started toward me fast.

But it was later shown that these tests were highly unreliable and that similar tests, conducted on a "sound deadener" sprayed on during the manufacture of the car, had yielded virtually identical results.

MAXXLINK is the subbrand for mobile and marine audio installation accessories featuring amplifier installation kits, RCA cable, power cables, distribution and fusing components, sound deadener and capacitors.

The Infini came only in dark green color with unique Infini trim grille, rear spoiler, "lightweight" carpet, without sound deadener, and with Infini ( ) logos on horn button, front grille, wheel caps, and bootlid.

These cars were assembled by Hurst Performance and featured items such as lightweight Chemcor side glass, fiberglass front fenders, and hood with scoop, lightweight seats, and sound deadener and other street equipment such as rear seats omitted.

The developer, Temro of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a subsidiary of the Budd Company of Troy, Mich., contends that the device for diesel engines is up to three times as effective a sound deadener as a conventional muffler and can eliminate 75 percent of the noise from a truck's exhaust pipe.