Sentence examples for disfigurement of from inspiring English sources

Preservationists rallied to prevent the disfigurement of Eero Saarinen's T.W.A. terminal at Kennedy Airport.

In the post-mortem disfigurement of dead metaphors he shows a sort of genius.

There is a steadily growing chorus of outraged protest at the disfigurement of once beautiful roadsides by chemical sprays.

Citrus growers, with far more to lose from the disfigurement of fruit than do homeowners, had the opposite reaction.

It causes frailty of the bones and disfigurement of the joints and leaves its victims hunchbacked, Mr. Umar writes.

The most staggering scene is one in which the alien picks up a young man with the facial disfigurement of neurofibromatosis, played by Adam Pearson.

Riga is a handsome port city, but in those days it was still deeply marked by the deprivations and disfigurements of the Soviet era, and pitifully poor (see chart).

Or think of Leopold II, the nineteenth-century Belgian king who carefully cultivated a reputation for outsized philanthropy and Christian devotion while overseeing the ruthless subjugation of the population of the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo, and commanding an army that committed massacres and routine disfigurements of locals.

The changes were confined to morphological disfigurements of the three lips with loss of normal aspects.

For example, in the Caribbean region, we could use mass treatment approaches to eliminate elephantiasis (a disease that causes massive swelling and disfigurements of the limbs and genitals) and schistosomiasis (a parasitic infection that can cause internal bleeding and malnutrition).

More detailed analysis of the meaning of such a 'pro-donation' stance [ 43] has revealed a dialectically opposed position of "qualified support", related to brain death, commodification, disfigurement, fragmentation of the body and the role of the medical profession.