Sentence examples for mere disease from inspiring English sources

Blackness, in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, became seen as a mere disease, with negroes descended not from Adam or even the fabled "mark of Cain" but degenerated from corrupted environment, atavistic savagery, or worse.

Like all the best short stories, the premise is a simple one: a boy on his sick bed feels that his body is being taken over by more than a mere disease.

Nobody expects dementia because we think we know our loved ones too well; we think their traits are too indelible, their personalities too strong, to ever be wiped out by a mere disease.

Nobody expects dementia, because we think we know our loved ones too well; we think their traits are too indelible, their personalities too strong, to ever be wiped out by mere disease.

Similarly, Sontag [ 45] identified the feeling of dread as a contributor to stigmatisation, stating that "treating cancer as no mere disease but a demonic enemy makes cancer not just a lethal disease but a shameful one" (p.59).

The Japanese learned painfully to dismiss the military's rhetoric along with their own delusions as mere "victory disease".

It found that "a mere mental disease or defect, though it may constitute a form of insanity known to and recognized by medical science, does not excuse one for committing a crime".

35 However, elevated S-100B should not only be seen as a prognostic factor for survival and a mere reflection of disease progression alone; the presence of the protein S-100B itself induces disease progression as well.

Tom Creo (the last name means "I believe" in Spanish) rages in the lab, bullying his subordinates and exasperating his supervisor (Ellen Burstyn) with his insistence on going after the secret of immortality rather than a mere cure for disease.

The concept of SWB emerges associated with the term successful old age and derives from the change in perspective of gerontology, which as from the 1960's stops considering old age and aging as a mere synonym of disease and inactivity, changing the focus to the aspects that further health (Cachioni & Batistoni 2012).

Unfortunately for Samantha, the consequence of her infidelity turns out to be much graver than the soap-opera fodder you might see on "The L Word": What she initially dismisses as a mere sexually transmitted disease gradually causes her hair, teeth and nails to fall out.