miasma

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

In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.

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.

None of these is a new argument — they’ve been swirling around the conservative and Republican fever swamp like a miasma for decades.

The Select Subcommittee has done its best to contribute to this poisonous miasma.