There were others to turn out of the room itself, which was crowded with morbid or terrified creatures, all making for confusion.
When it had haunted him of late he had felt it an untoward and morbid sign.
Perhaps this was one of the symptoms of the morbid thing for which there was that name.
Give up all this morbid thinking, these dreams and self-delusions!
Faust is in the depths of morbiddespair and bitterness at the thought of life: 'What from the world have I to gain?
We all believe in cerebral development according to what we call natural laws or causes, and in the parallel phenomena of mind; as also in the arrested and morbid action of brain-power by infractions of laws or by causes no less natural.
Major found that of the post-mortems of paralytics, all displayed appreciable morbid lesions, although in five per cent.
One of the advantages which airing-courts with walls were thought to possess was their supplying a place where patients suffering from maniacal excitement might work off their morbid energy in safety.
There was nomorbid illusion of the fancy, but there was utter prostration of the intellect.
The morbid excitement, the apathies, or the gloomy feelings of many patients were allowed to remain unchecked, and not unfrequently the mental disease was intensified rather than alleviated.
Major says that at present he cannot; and Professor Westphal says that he regards "the connection of morbid symptoms with the changes found after death as exceedingly uncertain and doubtful.
Then coming definitely to the question whether these pathologists have, to any considerable extent, been able to connect the morbid appearances found in cases of insanity with the symptoms, including motor troubles, Dr.
Morbid obsessions of modesty involving the urinary sphere and appearing at puberty are evidently based on transformed sexual emotion.
The early morbid admiration of delicate women became replaced by admiration of health and strength combined with grace.
In such cases it is scarcely necessary to invoke Adler's theory of a morbid inhibition, or "foreign body in consciousness," which has to be overcome.
Dread and anxiety not only excite sexual emotion, but in the more extreme morbid cases they may suppress and replace it.
In other still more morbid cases the fear of inflicting pain is more or less abolished.
In the light of such observations as these we may understand a morbid perversion of affection such as was recorded in the London police news some years ago (1894).
As Eulenburg truly points out, the circumstances attending the whipping of a woman may be sexually attractive, even in the absence of any morbid impulse.
He has one brother and one sister, who are somewhat morbid and original.
In morbid cases biting may even become a substitute for coitus.
He is himself healthy, intelligent, good looking, and agreeable, though with slightly morbid peculiarities.
The question as to whether men or women suffer most from sexual abstinence, as well as the question whether definite morbid conditions are produced by such abstinence, remains, however, an obscure and debated problem.
If, however, they are of at all neuropathic disposition, ungratified sexual emotions may easily lead to various morbid conditions, especially of a hysteroneurasthenic character.
It remains true that sexual phenomena in girls at puberty must not be regarded as morbid or unnatural.
Sanitchenko has called attention to the case of a Russian functionary, a school inspector, who every day had some fifty pupils flogged in his presence, as evidence of a morbid pleasure in such scenes.
The morbid degeneracy of his brain is undeniable, and yet in certain respects it is nevertheless a brain excellently ordered for planning evil, and it has made a special study of the art of slaughter.
The explanation is that the higher nerve-cells of the old man are degenerating, that he may be thus unable effectively to control his morbid sexual impulses, particularly if stimulated by an enlarged prostate.
The descendants of one morbid couple were traced through five generations.
Like many other sensitive and somewhat introspective children, I passed through a brief period of morbid righteousness.
A critical and healthy distrust of himself and his impulses began gradually to displace the bitter and morbid self-contempt of the first hours and days after the disaster.
St. Evremond was in despair and used all his powers of persuasion and influence to combat so morbid a resolution and the drunkenness that prompted it.
Throughout the work we meet with no unnecessary lifting of veils or treatment of themes merely to satisfy morbid curiosity.
The morbid and unhealthy tone of Carlyle's mind at this period may be seen by an extract from one of his letters to Sterling:-- "I see almost nobody.
His mind was morbid from intense reflection on certain evils, and from his physical ailments.
Certainly, morbid self-analysis was the last fault of which Kirk could be accused.
I've developed a morbid interest in jails," he remarked.
So that if we please we may attribute directly to Eve's indiscretion the many evils of our morbid self-consciousness of the present day.
For years this alter ego haunts him, for he imagines it an idiosyncrasy of his own, a morbid peculiarity he dare not confide to any one, for fear of being thought a fool.
It was sentimental and unreal, and lacked art; but its morbid psychology and a certain kind of intensity gave it popularity at the time.
Like many other naturally serious youths of his time, as of Bunyan’s time, he was sorely beset by a consciousness of sinfulness, which he expressed in terms that today seem morbid in their intensity.
The imperial throne was filled by a morbid and suspicious tyrant who needed but a pretext to depose the governor of any province who silently acquiesced in traitorous pretensions to kingship.
Tremendously hot though the day had been, the evening was exceedingly chilly, and we at last requested the morbid waiter to light us a fire.
Something of this must have been morbid feeling, something from the want of energy consequent on the condition of his frame.
Morbid attacks of depression came on, during which he wandered about, unable to apply himself so much as even to write a letter, though in the intervals he was both cheerful and full of activity.
All general disturbances of the body, manifest themselves in those parts which are in a morbid state--as in a corn, a rheumatic bone, or a decayed tooth.
The Mouth which thirsts for morbid gratification of taste, is more worthless than one which is contented with wholesome viands, and ruled by the proper instincts of its duty.
I have got what you call morbid just in consequence of the sophistry by which I persuaded myself that wrong could be right.
Come, come, Mr Benson, let us have no more of this morbid way of talking.
To-day's bill-of-fare is indeed tempting to the morbid appetites of high and low.
Fresh wagers are, indeed, made on the matches about to take place; but the prevailing feeling over that numerous assemblage is one of morbid excitement and anticipation.
The sycophant who could most readily reduce himself to the level of a beast in gross sensuality, while he boasted a demon's refinement of cruelty, and morbid depravity of heart, became the first favourite for the time with his imperial master.
The dismal fact of her son's half-idiocy so preyed upon her mind that, in a heat of morbid feeling, she fell to accusing her innocent self for his misfortunes.
This psychological, earnest painter has been betrayed, by his morbid nervousness of temper, into making the starting of a cat into the second most important incident in his Annunciation.
As I write these words, I am conscious that this will strike many readers as the expression of a superfine and selfish dilettantism, arising no doubt from morbid lack of sympathy with the world into which Heaven has put us.
As a man, Byron was impetuous, morbid and passionate.
These may be some of the reasons for the morbid and wayward character of the youthful genius.
In nightmares and hours of feverish unrest, she had suffered the same vague, morbid feeling that she now experienced.
