miasmic
Example Sentences
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What follows is a miasmic journey through grief and identity, terror and uncertainty, that is finely and compellingly wrought.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Heavy with sinister 1980s electropop — the perfect underlay to his vivid miasmic imagery — it’s also the Weeknd’s most jaded record.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020
A similar anxiety unsettles Mr. Van Sant’s paintings, although their unthreatening pastel palette and miasmic drifts of gentle brush strokes leave you wondering what, here, really, is not to like?
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2019
What finally emerges from cosmic horror’s miasmic evolution over the course of the 20th century is a literary concept that is equal parts genre and philosophy, cerebral and primordial.
From Slate • Sep. 6, 2013
Occasionally patches of vapour drifted across their path, but generally speaking the miasmic belt ended at a distance of about half a mile from the sea.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)