Guys, gals, you find contempt for the old in the culture, use it to make a buck or get a cruel laugh, and then let it ferment and fester in the world beyond show-biz, a world in which real violence is often committed against the real elderly.
"This has allowed Al Qaeda to grow and fester in Mosul," said Falah al-Luhaibi, the Sunni lawmaker.
If you aren't getting foods out through the methods listed above, they are rotting and festering in your mouth; a water pick will help to remove stubborn food particles.
I don't want to take powers from Brussels in order to leave them loitering and festering in Whitehall.
You feel like a vegetarian hearing about some stomach-churning bacteria that fester in bacon.
The sordid sequence of five intertwined tales rawly depicts the lives of post-war New York junkies, hustlers, drag-queens, gang-members, wide-boys and prostitutes festering in a brutal Red Hook waterfront area like a decaying open wound.
The remains of the Tower of Babel fester in a pit of oily water nearby.
I was imagining a long, complex piece that would fester in a backwater of the newspaper.
Maybe some of us would rather fester in a postdoc than thrive at, say, a consulting firm.
Not to let it fester in a corner of Reddit, YouTube or Facebook.
Insensitive use of language: One respondent reported a case where a clinician described a child as 'moribund' in front of family members, and that this was enough to 'start a germ' that 'grows and festers to cause a breakdown in trust' (healthcare lawyer).
