morbidness

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

I almost laughed at his tendency to morbidness and self dramatization.

Yet all nature about her seemed a magnificent rebuke to her morbidness.

But still more, this craving for notoriety was a symptom of the intense morbidness which now pervaded his nature.

Tapestried walls gave it a gloomy appearance, and the dark mahogany furniture added to the morbidness of the surroundings.

In addition to his genius, his loneliness, and his morbidness, it must be taken into consideration that he knew nothing about women.

It was like morbidness.

The review continued: "What saves the collection from morbidness is the formal beauty and remorselessly compressed clarity of the writing.

To see your mother, warns you to control your inclination to cultivate morbidness and ill will towards your fellow creatures.

Yet for all the morbidness of these details, the prevailing mood of "School for the Blind" is one of gently comic wackiness.

There was no morbidness in Phoebe; if there had been, the old Pyncheon House was the very locality to ripen it into incurable disease.

This second generation of Romantics was obsessed with morbidness and death, and soon after, social commentary could be found in literature, both features not seen in the visual arts.

Yet Mr. Dimmesdale would perhaps have seen this individual's character more perfectly, if a certain morbidness, to which sick hearts are liable, had not rendered him suspicious of all mankind.

The heroine is not particularly interesting with her morbidness and hysterical posing; she probably stands for one of Balzac's principles, and his principles are the most tedious thing about him.

Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.

The contrast of an esthetic point of view, carried "even to morbidness" (to use James's own words), with a more rigid, traditionalist stance creates the story's intense atmosphere of conflict.

The Congregationalist was relieved to find an autobiography that was "wholly free from morbid self-consciousness," and The Literary Digest also remarked on the absence of "morbidness or self-pity."

Roderick Elliston, whether the serpent was a physical reptile, or whether the morbidness of your nature suggested that symbol to your fancy, the moral of the story is not the less true and strong.

Smith was one of "the big three of pulp magazine Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft," where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

CHAPTER XI With Billy on strike and away doing picket duty, and with the departure of Mercedes and the death of Bert, Saxon was left much to herself in a loneliness that even in one as healthy-minded as she could not fail to produce morbidness.

Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.

He had been writing in thumb-cramping longhand, and rewarding himself after the completion of every page with a large vodka and tomato juice; and so at six o'clock he had taken a walk along the beach not only to clear his mind often centuries of philosophical morbidness, but the cumulative effects of twelve large Bloody Marys.