We must remember that he was in a morbid state of mind, in which almost all contact was pain.
The habits of Lydgate's profession, his home preoccupation with scientific subjects, which seemed to her almost like a morbid vampire's taste, his peculiar views of things which had never entered into the dialogue of courtship—all these continually alienating influences, even without the fact of his having placed himself at a disadvantage in the town, and without that first shock of revelation about Dover's debt, would have made his presence dull to her.
Their most characteristic result was not the "Key to all Mythologies," but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited—a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage—a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
And in any case, even supposing negations which only a morbid distrust could imagine, Fred had always (at that time) his father's pocket as a last resource, so that his assets of hopefulness had a sort of gorgeous superfluity about them.
We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
Black: Look sophisticated : Black is generally the best color to opt for if you want to seem sophisticated, but be wary of overdoing it and looking morbid instead.
" "Very nice, Madam Morbid.
It may seem morbid or even creepy, but switching out your normal colored light bulb for one with a red tint may help to combat depression.
This morbid misconception dates back until at least 1929 when writer Erich Remarque immortalised it in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
A million morbid images spill through my brain.
" Franco, who suffers from morbid obesity, diabetes and hypothyroidism, "was in a good mood last night as photo and video cameras filmed his admission to the clinic," the daily El Debate said on its website.
It is a grown man gripped by a morbid elation as he looks down on a sheer drop to the rocks, the beach — where I am standing — and the sea.
The US researchers behind that study concluded: 'The chief morbid consequence of knuckle cracking would appear to be its annoying effect on the observer.
" "She is very ill and weak," said Sue, "and the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies.
Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds.
" "Very nice, Madam Morbid.
