In a dress of faded sky blue with gray concentric circles emanating from the fetal center like a radioactive shockwave, the half-life of which can be measured on her face, she advises her daughter, who expresses her malaise to her privately: "Well you can still wobble, can't you?
Don't ever openly attribute her emotional malaise to her period.
At first she plans an abortion, but later her biological imperative takes charge and she has the baby, after which a strange intellectual malaise overcomes her.
Classically, black music is a story of melancholy made dazzling, artificial; Kamaiyah's unassuming, casual lyricism is how she sneaks malaise into her recapitulated funk.
7. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (1983) In Marshall's masterful novel, sixtysomething widow Avey Johnson is plagued by a sudden, mysterious malaise, causing her to bolt from a luxury Caribbean cruise.
The patient attended outpatient clinic on day 35, complaining of exertional dyspnea, low-grade fever, and malaise since her discharge.
The patient promptly recovered from the malaise, and her bowel problems gradually decreased after the elimination of the lead shot pellet.
Her glasses were huge, her nose huger, her malaise huger still.
Irina, an optimist who hoped that work, useful work, would be the cure for her malaise, becomes as tired of her own philosophy as she is of the dead-end job she secures.
As the narrative swirls to a stylish and startling end, one wonders if the traumas ahead will deepen Sarah's existential malaise — or shake her from her self-indulgent inertia long enough to find whatever it is she's searching for.
Back in her old bedroom, she nursed her malaise, and for weeks she barely left the house.
