Soon came the Mercitron and the Thanatron, "suicide machines" that enabled "clients" to inject themselves with drugs or to release a dose of lethal carbon monoxide, turning the blood cherry red and suffusing the cheeks in death with a misleadingly healthy glow.Over 130 people died painlessly with the help of these machines and the doctor who invented them.
These are the moments that carry the novel.Mr Cunningham is a disciplined writer, leery of adjectives and capable of suffusing the most quotidian scene reading the paper in bed, say with a portent of dread.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukMYSTERIOUS and melancholy, with the exotic airs of the Black Sea suffusing its stones, Odessa defies categorisation.
Lord Rees, who used to run the Royal Society, Britain's foremost scientific body, has since founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, in Cambridge, which takes the risks posed by AI just as seriously.Such worries are a mirror image of the optimism suffusing the field itself, which has enjoyed rapid progress over the past couple of years.
The war transformed Alexander, suffusing him with energy and determination.
Stylistically, such works owe much to Rossetti's illustrations, but more often his own dreamworld drew inspiration from the melancholy, attenuated figures of the 15th-century Italian painters Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli, suffusing them with a mood of romantic mysticism.
The beatific quality suffusing Dante's love for Beatrice is somewhat different from that which Cavalcanti expresses in his emotionally complex, often anguished love lyrics.
A sport increasingly dominated by wealthy patrons of a few top trainers today shares the tension and excitement suffusing the Casey family's tiny stable, just up the coast from Dublin, as Flemenstar attempts a new summit at Leopardstown.
She smiled at me, went around the room turning on lamps, suffusing the dark space she was abandoning me to with a bronze funeral-parlor light.
Natural light seeps in only through the thin-cut marble walls, suffusing the rooms with a golden glow.
What sounds like an exclusionary exercise ends up as a pleasure trip — from Roger Fenton's image of sunlight suffusing the mist above a rushing stream in 1854 to Brassaï's shot of street lights glowing through the Paris fog in 1932.
