"Spiderland" deserves the overheated praise, but it was partly responsible for the enervation and increasing insularity of independent rock music during the nineties, a decade in which hip-hop, teen pop, and dance-hall, by contrast, became ever more formally omnivorous and pleasurable.
By Sunday morning, I was always close to enervation.
Upon leaving Mexico, the once fearless poet becomes an aimless "shadowy figure," a "goddamn robot"; in this novel, exile offers not opportunity but enervation.
Jacobi finds just the right tone of enervation and enlightenment.
In any case, the general mood of enervation and ennui was reflected in the day's marquee match in Ashe Stadium, a fourth-round men's singles between Novak Djokovic and Juan Monaco.
You can't muscle your way through the enervation and malaise of autoimmunity — if you could, I would have.
Most of this educated sorrow comes off as mere enervation; I wish Benson had played it as satire.
Under my flashlight's gleam, I pored over the cluster of Housman poems in my "Pocket Book of Verse," letting the sorrow and resignation take hold of my spirit; there was a note both stoical and ill-omened in this pastoral requiem, and it mated perfectly with my enervation, my feeling of doom.
Miasma, acedia, the enervation of damp,.
Also, though his concerns — corporate enervation and jittery social isolation, among them — are postmodern, he's refreshingly allergic to formal gimmickry.
