Sentence examples for terrifying illness from inspiring English sources

It is the most terrifying illness on the face of the earth".

Some people do indeed say their mania can help fuel creativity – but it's important we don't use this to romanticise what can be a terrifying illness.

The names of other bones summon memories of meeting her husband, Harry, and of their "polio honeymoon," during which she had to rush her raving and suddenly hostile bridegroom back home so his terrifying illness could be diagnosed.

Even as public perceptions began to shift – in 1987 the late Princess Diana did much to tackle the social stigma of Aids patients by shaking their hands in front of the television cameras – many of the cultural representations of people living with HIV or Aids still centred on the idea of a middle-aged homosexual man in the grip of a terrifying illness.

With terrifying rapidity, illness and death brought the party to an abrupt end, as reveller after reveller succumbed to what at first we thought was a gay cancer, but which soon, it became clear, was nothing less than a gay plague.

Chuck is big on the neuroses of modern America: addiction, support groups, cults, plastic surgery, paranoia, New Age therapies, terrorism, eating disorders, terrifying terminal illnesses.

How does a child maintain youth and enthusiasm in the face of terrifying and debilitating illness?

For a woman who had always believed in her own exceptionality, who had defined herself by her will to be different, to rise above, the terrifying democracy of illness is one of its most painful aspects.

The initial stages of her boyfriend's illness were terrifying, she says.

There are few illnesses as terrifying in the public consciousness as cancer.

To imagine that situation complicated by illness was frankly terrifying.