Word: morbid
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...claim, the paintings and titles in this exhibition are simple, but suggest complex implications. The first painting in the show is entitled “Headstone.” This wordless gray mass is shocking at first because of its placement in the show. It immediately sets the morbid tone that White wants—she suggests that life, creativity and energy are dead in the suburbs. The final paintings in this 20-painting exhibit is “Suburbia”. The green-on-green arrangement of mini cookie-cutter houses, lined up in perfect rows is eye catching...
There is a word--a decidedly straightforward one--for Donna's very extreme condition: electrophobia, or a morbid fear of electricity. You will find it listed right below eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors) and not far above enetophobia, eosophobia and ereuthrophobia (fear of pins, daylight and blushing, respectively). And those are just some...
...morbid traveler in South Africa can easily find himself playing a macabre game: Look around at the people in an airport terminal, or the crowd at a soccer game or on the beach, bearing in mind that as many as half of them are HIV-positive and will probably die within a decade. They're in the snapshot the traveler may take at that moment, but a few years from now they'll have simply disappeared...
...able to create a more fan-friendly environment at our games," Carlson says . "Without advertising, it would be a kind of bland, morbid setting. It would be just a sport being played for the athletes rather than for the fans as well...
...morbid symptoms of Israel's inconclusive electoral system are reflective of the Jewish state's increasingly fractious makeup. But while Israeli politicians have their philosophical differences, the extent to which those interfere with their political choices is limited. National security has always been the organizing principle of Israeli politics, and the differences among politicians must be read against their common security concerns. The last four prime ministers Israelis have elected have been senior military officers, two from each side of the political divide. Those men differed profoundly on strategy and tactics, but they share the same core concerns. For example...