Sentence examples for morbid quality from inspiring English sources

Yet as directed by Richard LaGravenese, who shares screenwriting credit with Steven Rogers, it has a curious morbid quality.

"There's a kind of morbid quality to the story which is very Bolaño," he says, "You can sort of feel that it's death-haunted from the first page".

But he says that we view that country through "Orientalist bigotry," seeing only its morbid qualities.

These findings are in keeping with previous study results and confirm the importance of pre-morbid quality of life on outcome from critical illness [ 31, 32, 35, 36].

We did not attempt to verify this pre-morbid quality of life with the patient after ICU discharge but this also could have the limitation of recall bias.

The use of relatives to assess pre-morbid quality of life could be identified as a potential weakness, the emergency nature of most ICU admissions makes the prospective identification of patients extremely difficult.

Pre-morbid quality of life has been linked to higher mortality and has been suggested to be as accurate a predictor of outcome as APACHE II system [ 32, 34].

Also, at the time of recruitment to the study, participants were asked to estimate their pre-morbid quality-of-life using the SF-36 instrument.

A recommendation was also included to consider the impact of co-morbid disorders, quality of life of family members, and optimal duration of treatment, "where the evidence permits".

Sébastien Marcovici, as her partner, has a morbid and tense quality that does not appeal; and Philip Neal, a fine dancer in several roles, lacks the dramatic weight for the ballet's Death figure.

Other studies indicate that as multi-morbid and co-morbid conditions increase, the quality of care patients receive also increases.