Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...realized my life was my own, that I was making the decision to listen to my parents,” Jen says. “It sounds morbid, but I realized that I would die, and that the moment before, I would reflect on myself and think, was I happy...
...It’s kind of morbid,” she says, as she displays a mold taken of author Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s face after her death...
...Before I am accused of being morbid, let me note that the miracle of birth also responds to financial incentives. The full tax advantages of childbirth expire at midnight on January 1 every year. And according to many years of data on U.S. births, the greater the tax benefits, the greater the difference in birth rates between late December and early January...
...this memoir he applies them to the world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied but always sympathetic sleuth. Diagnosis: riveting...
...that would ascend to the heavens. Despite the provocative titling, however, his monochromatic apocalypses are more concerned with “mortality, power and a vacuum,” as Bergstein told The Crimson at the exhibit’s opening. They possess a vibrating, quivering energy and darkly morbid overtones from penetrating lines...