Sentence examples for lingering malady from inspiring English sources
The word itself, which comes from two Greek roots, nostos (home), and algia (longing), was created in 1688 by a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, to describe the lingering malady that afflicted Swiss soldiers away from home (he also considered less elegantly calling the condition philopatridomania).
Rather than suddenly expiring, crushed by the tornado-born house of a digital revolution, television appears to be suffering from a lingering malady.
The liberal use of the word is thus also a way of distributing its balm more widely: at least since Aristotle, tragedy has been understood as an explicitly therapeutic dramatic form, a purgative treatment for lingering social maladies.
Five years after one of the worst mass arsenic poisoning in the nation's history, Anderson and several other victims still carry lingering emotional and physical maladies.
Sadly for Labour, the malady lingers on.
Politically things were cooling off in America, but in Siegel's film the malady lingers on.
Is refusing to even talk about race a form of "colorblind racism?" Then: amateur boxer Harry Reid TKO's Mitch McConnell on the filibuster and Eliot compares the week he resigned to his relaunch week -- "solitude" vs. "tsunami". The trial is over but the malady lingers on.
The onset of such serious maladies is fortuitous and years of lingering in dementia might precede my demise.
But Franken was lingering.
