inure

There is also the real danger of inuring the reader to violence, by repetition or escalation desensitizing the reader – the actual opposite of what I intended.

Yet even he’d found himself becoming inured to scenarios that would have been previously unthinkable.

The nation carried on, inured to the toll the pandemic had taken and the deaths yet to come.

That would amuse him, change the air of his thoughts, and give him time to inure himself to the horrible thing he had discovered.

The continual thought of a good man was how to inure himself to suffering, and prepare himself for death.

What then, said Madame, are not thirty Tears Misfortunes enough to inure her to them?

But we must inure ourselves, in the biography of Petrarch, to his over-estimation of favourites in the article of morals.

There is another advantage of Government cooperation that will inure greatly to the benefit of the settler.