General uneasiness

Usage examples of malaise.

A wave of malaise travelled dizzily around my outraged nervous system.

The moujiks, the workers, the students, the women, and the separate nationalist groups all experienced their own forms of malaise.

Even worse than the whispering and the malaise that had struck her when she created the mannikin was the awful wiggling sensation against her abdomen.

There was something else-perhaps an outgrowth of their mutual malaise.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

The scientists at the labs had not figured on the hurriedness of the malaise of insidious maligned death fluttering like a blanket of vultures over a now doomed landmass.

Fits of weeping and malaise alternating with furious bouts of lovemaking were her idea of romantic counterpoint.

When talking to Bishop Dugan in the Diocese office, he had used all the correct buzzwords of the time to express this unease: anomie, urban malaise, an increasing lack of empathy, a sense of disconnection from the life of the spirit.

Kafka, however unmistakable the ethnic source of his "liveliness" and alienation, avoided Jewish parochialism, and his allegories of pained awareness take upon themselves the entire European -- that is to say, predominantly Christian -- malaise.

The reflection that Edmund, before he succumbed to his malaise, would fidget and ask incessant questions decided the matter: he hired two chaises, and in so doing made the discovery that Mr Rayne, a man of modest means, did not meet with the deference accorded to his grace of Salford.

Both had the same complaints: flu-like syndromes consisting of general malaise, low-grade fever, and low white counts, as well as GI troubles including crampy pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Not physically—he suffered, albeit to a lesser degree, from the same problems as Enterprise’s human crew, an inability to (as the doctor put it) “tolerate” some of the Denari foods, a general malaise, a growing stiffness and soreness in his body that he attributed to certain chemical deficiencies—but mentally.

Among sensitive physicians, acupuncturists and moxitherapists there are some who feel very tired after examining patients (specially in serious diseases like cancer), or feel pain or malaise in the area where the affection is located.

Rindfleisch greeting guests with crushing handshakes, embraces and kisses for the good-looking ex-girl classmates like Ginger McCord, formerly Siefried, in a backless pale green dress that set off her pallid redhead's skin, how wan Ginger was looking, but beautiful as we hadn't seen her since Doug's alcoholic collapse, cancer a lung removed, Dougie'd been a four-pack-a-day man for twenty years) and their divorce and bitter child-custody case, we'd heard rumors that Ginger herself had been hospitalized, attempted suicide by overdose, but her old friends Trish Elders and Shelby Connor refused to talk about this, or about Ginger, and it was difficult to believe that Ginger had suffered any profound malaise of the soul as she slipped her bare, slender arms around Jon's thick neck and kissed his startled mouth with little-girl kisses as Jon's wife Nanci stared smiling a few yards away.

The arduous weather was claiming more casualties among his airmen than was the curiously negative response of the enemy, Yes, Operation sow was certainly putting to the test those years of peacetime training, those Goddam years of pinching and scraping to keep the fleets in being while Uncle Sam picked himself up again after the Vietnam syndrome, a malaise ably exploited by Soviet subversion throughout the free world.