miasma
Example Sentences
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Take, for example, Kennedy’s staunch rejection of germ theory in favor of “miasma theory.”
From Salon
The harvest of that change was an inaugural meeting of the new panel that was enveloped in a miasma of confused, uninformed debate.
From Los Angeles Times
Few writers since Henry James can create an atmosphere of doubt around events and character as effectively as this author does, and in “Venetian Vespers” the miasma thickens at every turn.
Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.
From Salon
In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.
From Los Angeles Times
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