Sentence:  It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real" - distinguished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy <WSD>alarums</WSD> of the household. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A call to arms.