enervation

Example Sentences

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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Adoration and enervation course together on “Dear Mom,” as Blanchard plays a pas de deux with a large string section.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Radio and television broadcasts about these events make up part of Suspiria’s murmuring ambient soundtrack, though the facts of what happened seem less important than the general mood of anxiety and enervation.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

His condition is undignified, even dreadful: he keeps between the two extremes of work at high pressure and a state of melancholy enervation.

From On the Future of our Educational Institutions by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)