miasma

Few writers since Henry James can create an atmosphere of doubt around events and character as effectively as this author does, and in “Venetian Vespers” the miasma thickens at every turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025

It was a couple of weeks after the great smog had brought London to a standstill, and although that particularly foul miasma had dispersed, smog still regularly reduced visibility.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

They were interning at a local dance studio, teaching yoga to kids and unsteadily emerging from a miasma of childhood depression.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

The nationwide miasma of anticommunism, however, was not to be dispelled so easily.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Unlike today, when scientists know that disease is spread by microorganisms, Victorian Englishmen thought it was spread by "miasmas," or "bad air."

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2023

Modern warfare creates miasmas of emotion, information, misinformation, deception and secrecy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2018

It’s a madman’s trapezoid, a magic carpet ride of dazed miasmas and subtle brumes.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016

If one bought into the dangers of miasmas, it wasn’t much of a leap to buy into the dangers of one’s own internal sewage.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013

They were delirious miasmas dissipated by the sun and daylight of companionship.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

At this point, the atmosphere is loaded with pestilential miasmata.

From Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa by Mungo Park

It cleanses the atmosphere, and sweeps away the poisonous miasmata, which have been engendered during a period of quiescence, and which must, if not removed, prove prejudicial to human life.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth

The miasmata appear to ascend until they reach the level of the town above, where the atmosphere being less dense, and perhaps precisely of their own specific gravity, they float, and commingle with it.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

Swampy districts in Holland have been made habitable by an extensive culture of the Sunflower, the malarial miasmata being absorbed and nullified, whilst pure oxygen is emitted abundantly.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

The frequency of gnats and mosquitos characterises unhealthy climates only so far as the development and multiplication of these insects depend on the same causes that give rise to miasmata.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt