Sentence examples for pernicious epidemics from inspiring English sources

Because the roots of all this diet-induced disease lie in two less publicized but even more pernicious epidemics: nature deficit disorder and kitchen illiteracy.

"I concede that I may have exaggerated this epidemic of pernicious anemia," he concedes not very convincingly, "but cling to my view that far too many practicing poets default to a rather inward, placid and bloodless response to the world".

"Pernicious quicksand!

It's a pernicious relationship".

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

The symptoms are pernicious.

Reprehensible! Foul! Pernicious! Unsubstantiated!

This is pernicious nonsense.

Alcoholism is ugly and pernicious".