In fact, eruptions are not unfrequently accompanied by earthquakes; and an island of the nature of Lincoln Island, formed of substances so varied, basalt on one side, granite on the other, lava on the north, rich soil on the south, substances which consequently could not be firmly attached to each other, would be exposed to the risk of disintegration.
Rose, so far had loosening and disintegration gone on in her character, now was beginning to think her obstinate strait-lacedness about his books and her austere absorption in good works had been foolish and perhaps even wrong.
It is feared that if many hydrogen bombs are used there will be universal death - sudden only for a fortunate minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
In such a highly developed capitalist world, the economic declining, constant unemployment, the disintegration of families——all these make people all the more crazy for religion.
Trilogy of the Torrent--The Family, Spring and Autumn was woven around the decline and disintegration of a big feudal family.
Washington's elites rightly fear that Brexit could spark a chain reaction that could lead to the disintegration of the EU.
And they see the disintegration that accompanies global integration, as communities suffer when big employers lose to foreign competitors.
One might be worried about geopolitical risks, including the threat of war between Russia and Nato, disintegration of the EU and the chance that the next US president will be a hardline populist.
"They depict an old age in which one has enough conviction in one's own completeness to ward off the despair that gradual physical disintegration can too easily bring," Dr.
' Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
