I examined the battle scars that ravaged her mind and body.
It ravages the mind as cruelly as it ravages the body.
All of this raises tricky economic and ethical questions about how a society survives and prospers when so many of its citizens are beyond what we currently conceive as working-age, and live longer in the twilight, when disease ravages the mind and body, and people are more likely to be dependent than independent.
Since the early '70s, Humes — a bearded, generally benevolent figure, his mind ravaged yet not entirely destroyed by mental illness — had been a fixture around Harvard and Columbia, a self-appointed freelance professor entrancing acolytes with his theories on vast government conspiracies, the benefits of cannabis, the shape of clouds.
Alarming footage (ravaged bodies, contorted minds) and bold statements (the voice-over is presented on-screen in text form, a motif apparently inspired by Prince's Sign o' the Times music video) skewer America as "a monster" and demand that European peoples, in Fanon's words, "stop playing the stupid game of the Sleeping Beauty".
A good junior welterweight, Nebo fought for a world title, but, desperate for money toward the end of his career, he took severe beatings — losing, at one point, seven fights in a row — that ravaged his already battered mind and body.
Kerry's first marriage was troubled; his wife, Julia Thorne, suffered from severe depression and wrote that her mind was "ravaged by corroding voices, my body defeated by bone-rattling panics, I sat on the edge of my bed minutes from taking my life".
During the six or so years when Alzheimer's disease ravaged my grandmother's mind, my grandfather cared for her almost single-handedly.
I would rather share the fate of my maternal forebears — old old age with an intact mind in a ravaged body — than the fate of my other grandmother.
These were the ones whose advanced dementia, compounded by other afflictions, had ravaged body as well as mind, nudging them closer to death; the ones who would need their diapers changed and their limbs washed before being put to bed.
