The acute form of this mulishness is writer's block.
For as long as I can remember, I have suffered from an acute form of hypochondria.
Some, on the other hand, are simply facile: "Maybe, Desmond thought, true love was an acute form of tolerance".
Mrs Gorbachev died on Monday after a two-month battle against a rare and acute form of leukaemia.
"Civilization is in an acute form of crisis," Onslow Ford said in his opening lecture.
Jolt, an acute form of "stimulus" — its etymology a mystery — is out of character for one who campaigned as "no-drama Obama".
The health organization said the villagers at Buyat Bay did not suffer from Minamata disease, an acute form of methyl mercury poisoning.
East African, or Rhodesian, sleeping sickness is an acute form of the disease caused by the subspecies T. brucei rhodesiense.
The character suffers from such an acute form of dissociation that, so Fletcher argues to a conference of colleagues who just don't get it, his mind changes his actual anatomy.
Schiller's doctors found that he had contracted a form of the salmonella bacterium, known as Salmonella Heidelberg, which triggered a cascade of conditions, including an inflamed colon and an acute form of arthritis.
In 1955, the worst year on record, there were 3,712 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in England and Wales, the ninth of 12 successive years in which the number suffering the most acute form of the disease reached four figures.
