Sentence examples for brutal illness from inspiring English sources

Apes are humans' closest relatives, and like people they suffer a brutal illness from Ebola and die from hemorrhage and shock.

I had got married at thirty-nine, motherhad hadieded shortly thereafter following a brutal illness, and I'd finally managed, after years of troubling inertia, to publish a new book.

Out of the crucible of a year's brutal illness, she has wrung a series of brilliant essays – and won the admiration and support of readers online and on Twitter, who inundated her with good wishes during the grim days and rejoiced with her on the good.

More than a few friends have been fighting brutal illnesses and in some cases lost their battle.

And in between those two milestones there was a brutal, long-term illness for mom, and open heart surgery for my husband, Darren.

He'd sunk into depression and discovered that there was no other illness so brutal, so profound, so inescapable, that made an enemy of consciousness itself.

The article unsparingly described the author's swift, brutal encounter with the illness, which resulted in the partial amputation of eight fingers: "I went dancing the night before in a black velvet Paris gown, on one of those evenings that was the glamour of New York epitomized.

The article unsparingly described the author's swift, brutal encounter with the illness, which resulted in her losing the ends of eight fingers: "I went dancing the night before in a black velvet Paris gown, on one of those evenings that was the glamour of New York epitomized.

RD Laing revolutionised the seemingly uncaring and sometimes brutal treatment of mental illness in the 1950s, but a certain frustration permeates the conversation as Adrian tries to understand why his father never backed up his theories with the academic evidence which might have ensured his place in the psychiatric establishment.

Requiem is joyless, which fans will say is the point, but the viewer has no reason to feel sorry for any of these pathetic characters, and for someone even passingly familiar with addiction, it's a pretty brutal appraisal of an illness.

The repercussions of his illness, and his brutal cure, are described with insight in prose as elegant and precise as the world of the Edwardian country house in which their tragedy takes place.