Sentence examples for pernicious feeling from inspiring English sources
The budget cuts have not only exacerbated unemployment and dampened consumer demand, they've shaken the society to its core with a pernicious feeling that the quality of life in America is declining.
"I really found the most pernicious thing in prison was feeling sorry for yourself".
What is so pernicious about this movement is that feeling bad about our bodies is being dressed up as female emancipation, wrapped up in the idea of self-control.
"The feeling that Islam is especially pernicious... frustrates Buddhists who believe that their faith has suffered for its tolerance of other religions," the report says.
The secrets we hold as children, especially those born from familial dysfunction, can be particularly pernicious: too young to handle our experience or verbalize our feelings, and mistakenly convinced we're at fault for events beyond our control, we develop sophisticated systems of self-defense that become second nature, deeply tied to our identity — until it's time to let them go.
She finds the story of the glass slipper — the arrival of a man who represents the "perfect fit" — to be as pernicious as the limitations of the glass ceiling: it leaves many women feeling responsible for the failure of their lives to conform to what she contends is an impossible standard.
But what's most pernicious is the way Facebook invites and normalizes the public expression of private feelings.
Domestic abuse is pernicious.
That inertia is pernicious.
