The carnal side, atrophied for months, which had been stirred by the enervation of his pious readings, then brought to a crisis by the English cant, came to the surface.
Let us consider very shortly how the abuse of this method, and an unauthorised extension and interpretation of its conclusions, are likely to have had something to do with the enervation of opinion.
They overlook the ultimate enervation that is so often the price paid for the temporary exaltation.
They often spring from an indolence and enervation that besets a certain number of people, however invigorating the general mental climate may be.
Repose to the point of enervation and the stage where it passes into gentle melancholy is the theme of their pictures--this, and not toil.
But ever the recurrent lights revealed her sweetly incarnate if deep in enervation of crushing weariness.
Worst of all, however, was the bad spirit that pervaded the army, the enervation consequent upon immorality.
Sismondi, in his passion for liberty, arrays against Lorenzo the political assassinations he permitted, the enervation of Florence, the national debt incurred by the republic, the exhausting wars with Sixtus carried on in his defence.
The soul of every great achievement is energy; but enervation and indolence sap its life, and doom the man to obscurity and ill-success.
Then, amidst the enervationof their crime, their love had turned to fright, and their kisses had produced a sort of physical terror.
The state of enervation in which they lived, nightly increased the fever of their blood, which resulted in atrocious hallucinations rising up before them.
And each time their nerves became irritated and strained, causing them such exasperation, that they would perhaps have died of enervation had they remained in the arms of one another.
However, modern industrial farming and processing of foodstuffs significantly contributes to mass, widespread enervation in two ways.
For the moment, lets ignore individual genetic inabilities to digest specific foods and also ignore the effects stress and enervation can have on our ability to extract nutrition out of the food we are eating.
This is what the profession and the people call a cure, and it is for the time being--until an unusual enervation is brought on from accident or dissipation; then another crisis.
However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that, for good and understandable reasons, seemed unknown to the earlier hygienists.
The common cause of gastro-intestinal indigestion is enervation and overeating When food is not digested, it becomes a poison.
The old-time hygienists defined enervation as a lack of or decline in an unmeasurable phenomena, "nerve energy.
Was it the puissance of the barbarian arms or the corruption andenervation of the character of her people which worked the downfall of Rome?
The feeling of enervation came back, and the light grew dim and obscured by dancing rays, while the latch of the door appeared to quiver, slowly rise up and up, to stop at the highest point, and the door slowly moved towards her.
Walking through these silent halls, disturbed from time to time by fair invalids or pale young consumptives who walk there, I fancied that enervation of the inner nature came from the enervation of the bodies.
Other causes may, and do, lead to the enervation and degeneration of a class or race; the parasitism of its child-bearing women must.
There were not wanting writers and thinkers who saw clearly the end to which the enervation of the female was tending, and who were not sparing in their denunciations.
An amusing illustration of the different points at whichenervation is reached by different females came under our own observation.
Years of luxury and debauchery have not yet brought the penalty of enervation and neurasthenia to the masses, though in certain circles of society, it is becoming painfully evident that that penalty is being even now exacted.
Periods of moral decadence in the life of a nation are always coincident with periods of luxury and great wealth, with consequent enervation and effemination; examples of this may be found in the histories of Rome, Greece, and France.
This phenomenon is a psychic rather than a physical hermaphroditism, and is directly traceable to the enervation produced by the habits of the wealthy and unemployed.
This is the reason that I listen, remain dumb, and let the enervation gnaw at me.
I cannot express in words the enervation that I feel sometimes while listening to the inept remarks addressed to me in the form of compliments, and which I am compelled to accept with a smile, which is almost a bite.
The minister experienced on hearing Rosas the feeling of enervation that attacked him in the Chamber when, near the dinner-hour, an orator became too long-winded in his speech.
Still heavy with lees of slumber, his wits occupied themselves sluggishly with questions concerning the enervation that oppressed him, the reason for his oversleeping, why he had not been called.
In profound psychical enervation he perceived with bitterness and despair the enormous futility of all things mortal, the hopelessness of effort, the certain black defeat that waits upon even what men term success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enervation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
