Word: morbidity
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...meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings...
Moody disconsolate, unnerved at Gardner's courtship, Selma thought of marriage as a trap set particularly for her, was sometimes swept off her feet by Gardner s ardor and exasperated by his arrogance At last he told her: "You mistake a morbid imagination ... for intellect...
Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with...
...reiterated historic acts of benefit and help throughout our existence as a rebellious [Spanish] colony and as a republic full of worries and troubles." The new President promised amnesty to Cuba's vast, stormy brood of political prisoners and exiles but warned: "It is necessary that the morbid state of cruel insanity of killing each other shall not re-turn." No contemporary Cuban has taken more lives than Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista, whose oversized (14,000) Army gives him the sinister status of an unofficial dictator. President Gómez will find his biggest job to ease...
...ingenuous slyness of Chekhov. Readers who liked to laugh with a clear conscience, however, were still puzzled by Author Stuart's refusal to make the most of his Munchausenish humor. But in spite of a preoccupation with death and burial that will seem to many a reader adolescently morbid, some of his yarns were well worth inclusion in any anthology-of-the-year. Some of them...