mental decay
Example Sentences
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"Any sort of hint of mental decay, you're sort of dead. There are moments when it pops up but it's not an all day every day condition, and that's what I cling onto."
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
His hand-crafted sci-fi nightmare imagines a future where a man-made elixir, after which the movie is titled, stops physical and mental decay, allowing humans to achieve god-like status.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Although that mash-up is at times incongruent, laboring to connect two tales that share thematic ground but lack narrative cohesion, the impressionistic perspective on Poe’s fear of mental decay unsettles all the same.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021
The prospect of mental decay was particularly painful for Sandy, whose idea of herself was intimately entwined with her ability to think deeply and originally.
From New York Times • May 14, 2015
"If you should ever be asked," continued Daniel Mortimer, "you would be able to say that you had seen no signs of mental decay in me these last few months?"
From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean
