to a sickening degree

This strange, carnal wonderland comes courtesy of local artists Minhi England and Bri Chesler, who write in their artist statement that the title of this immersive installation, “Delectable,” “describes a compulsion to modify the world around us to be pleasing to the senses, almost to a sickening degree.”

Back in late March, early April, it was to a sickening degree.

All of sudden, just when I felt like everything was going great, I felt my nervousness intensify to a sickening degree.

Hearne goes on to state that bears which have subsisted on this food for some days, when cut open emit a stench that is intolerable, and which taints their flesh to a sickening degree.