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

Nor, he added, was he ashamed of performing a job that causes almost daily enervation to the residents of New York.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2015

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

She dwelt in an atmosphere of excessive luxury, and found herself loving it more and more as she yielded to the spell of its subtle enervation.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar