neurasthenic

Example Sentences

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I’d absorbed the cultural cliche of the neurasthenic poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Rudolf Besier’s Broadway hit that spawned three films and seven TV dramas.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2021

With a neurasthenic mother now in charge, the Nichols family hobbled forward, neither well-to-do nor destitute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Personally, I can’t even think of forty-seven botanicals, and, unless the company is selling directly to neurasthenic beagles, I can’t conceive of any customer who will sniff out every aroma.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

With its sallow-faced subject reclining among monstrous sunflowers and African sculptures, it’s a radically neurasthenic, underground image of an odalisque.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014

Had Izzy been a different kind of child, this might have led her to be cautious, or neurasthenic, or paranoid.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng