"Balm in Gilead" chronicles how Dr. Lawrence overcame the racial oppression that Dr. Geiger insists must have caused incurable inner wounds.

For a horrific moment while the rift moved, Lord Foul's moon dominated the clear, starless abysm of the sky like an incurable wound, a maiming of the very Law of the heavens.

The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.

Documents were uncovered in 1991 which forced the Japanese government to issue an apology and "remorse to all those, irrespective of place of origin, who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable psychological wounds" to Korean comfort women.

The incurable wound that afflicts Amfortas is not merely, as in simplistic readings, lust for woman but lust for the mother, for whom the despised Kundry serves as surrogate.

He sensed he was in profound danger, that the idea of consciousness as something they could create might inflict itself on his soul as an incurable wound.

The Muras are remarkably clever at sending through their blow-tubes arrows which cause incurable wounds, even at a range of three hundred paces.

The godmother was also raising another adopted child, Moacir, who suffered from an incurable wound on his leg.

Bam Teli is about the psychological games involved in human relationships, when people often hurt each other, sometimes leaving incurable wounds behind.

And it could heal even the wounds, otherwise practically incurable, inflicted by the Mindsword when it was used as a physical weapon.