Sentence examples for morbidness from inspiring English sources

Housman's morbidness so bothered Ezra Pound that he wrote a famous parody: O woe, woe.

The poem, which is typical of the era, in its sentiment and morbidness, stands out now for two reasons: first, its subject is suicide (the title of the poem is "The Suicide's Soliloquy"); second, its author was most likely a twenty-nine-year-old politician and lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.

Now he undertook his own meditation on monomania -- on how, in his "frantic morbidness," Ahab came to identify with the whale "not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations," until "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick".