grow hardened

Soon the girls will grow hardened to the reality that plagues the sparkling and verdant highlands surrounding their remote village.

Mr. Rivera’s son, the Rev. David Rivera, a Roman Catholic priest at a nearby parish, said that public confessions, no matter how troubling, are common in charismatic groups, and that members of the groups grow hardened and numb to hearing them.

People grow hardened by association with danger, but the importance of good and sufficient drainage for a capital in which malarial fevers prevail hardly requires argument.

In the latter case, because there is nothing that shocks his ear, a man listens till the sentiment has so corrupted his heart, that his ears grow hardened too; by long custom he loses all sense of the danger of profane diversions; and I must say I have often heard young women of character sing songs in company, which I should be ashamed to read by myself.

It is astonishing how soon we grow hardened to such spectacles.