Word: morbidness
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...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...
...postwar years. (Faurer's personal archives were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between 1949 and 1952.) The nominal subject is a boy turning away from the site of a car accident. At the center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over...
Though Fefu’s troubled marriage and off-kilter proclamations that women are loathsome creatures hint that she is bound for the sort of morbid state that envelops Julia, she maintains a cheerfully unsettling demeanor most of the time...