tubercular

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With the “Funeral March” at its center, LaFarge’s multifaceted “journey” covers everything from the tubercular composer’s relationship with the gender-bending author George Sand to the video game “Frederic: The Resurrection of Music.”

From New York Times

The world didn’t expect much from Edward Bellamy, a reclusive, tubercular writer who lived with his parents.

From New York Times

“The dying tubercular is pictured as made more beautiful and more soulful,” she wrote, whereas “the person dying of cancer is portrayed as robbed of all capacities of self-transcendence, humiliated by fear and agony.”

From Washington Post

She personally housed 600 Belgian orphans, organized workshops for unemployed seamstresses and opened a home for tubercular children.

From New York Times

This sets the tone for much of the nearly 700 pages that follow, and it is a grimly appropriate perspective, for Chopin was tubercular by his mid-teens.

From Washington Post