Sentence examples for palliation from inspiring English sources

It is swifter in its destruction of the central nervous system and responds poorly to symptomatic palliation.

My assessment was as quick as I dared: not for resuscitation, but for full palliation.

The Earth as we now know it resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy.

But the world has always brimmed with bad songs, and worse poems, that are born of authentic pain; sincerity of feeling, in art, guarantees nothing but the passing palliation of the feeler.

The nurses, other doctors and sometimes even the patient and family request palliation only; in response, the surgeon often stalls, hesitates or simply refuses.

It is rather that there is a tendency to relapse into that class of ideas, expressions, and circumstances, which is most connected with the grosser and more animal portion of our nature; and that the detestable morality of the most prominent character in the story is accompanied with every sort of palliation short of unblushing justification".

This recognition allows patients to halt toxic treatment, opt for effective palliation and articulate their goals for the end of life.

Think holistically: Health workers, medicines, treatments, prevention, promotion, rehab and palliation all need to be in place and of good quality before universal healthcare is achievable.

Bunting himself looked down on annotations: "Notes are a confession of failure, not a palliation of it," he wrote, introducing the few notes to his 1968 "Collected Poems".

The Man Booker Prize winner has compiled a citizen's guide to festive auto-malaise and self-palliation.

Sex, food, money, vengeance: these are the palliations that drive them.