enervation

Example Sentences

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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Radio and television broadcasts about these events make up part of Suspiria’s murmuring ambient soundtrack, though the facts of what happened seem less important than the general mood of anxiety and enervation.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

Scrape away the hype and the hyperbole, the enervation and the exhaustion, and you find any number of more useful or wrenching impulses: kindness, hatred, antipathy, humanity, pity, awe, disgust, even ambivalence.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2018

In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

And so well did he succeed in heightening the enervation of the latter that it was not until the acrid caramels were passed that Tancred even pretended to eat.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar