emotional collapse
Example Sentences
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Sinclair’s book told the tale of an immigrant family’s toil in Chicago’s slaughterhouses, tracing the family’s physical, financial and emotional collapse.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2019
Two years later, he was teaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago when he was hospitalized for an emotional collapse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2017
Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016
There is a palpable hysteria to his playing; each note trembles, as if he has recently suffered an emotional collapse of unknowable magnitude.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2014
His insomnia and pain, the crushing workload, and his mounting frustration all tore at his spirit until by the end of March he felt himself on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
