miasmic

The accumulated noxiousness of miasmic exhalations, which, by virtue of being related through kinship and heredity, were of the same nature, constituted in itself a morbid menace....[E]very house had both its own odor and its 'specific endemic diseases,' kept alive by the mephitism of the walls" (Corbin 163).

The fresh air up on the hilltops is as elusive as the miasmic air down the urban underbelly: the affluent residents of the suburbs are not better placed to capture the air than the environmentally aggrieved urban poor.

Sears eschews clear chains of cause and effect, instead offering a kind of miasmic interplay between Shakespeare's source text, her own adaptation of that text, and the various temporal structures that emerge within that adaptation.

A prime example is the discussion in chapter 6 ("Missionary Enterprise") of the "Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day" movement of the "New England Holidays" Symphony, where he describes the appearance of a hymn tune as "one incredible revelatory moment," in which "the miasmic atonal undulations that have seemed to be a background fog of clouded memories imperceptibly become the foreground ...

As the market introduced a sense of privacy in Manchester, Bath, and Oxford, numerous nuisance cases in the English courtroom showed how the growing stench and miasmic ugliness of early modern English villages emerged alongside the increasing self-awareness of persons participating in the free market.

So long as we remain stuck in a miasmic sense that doctrine must be somewhat determinate in a way that might be shown empirically, it is hard to motivate the search for other less familiar doctrinal effects.

Because the miasmic mixture of fog from the fens and of coal smoke and foul odors from the town was believed to cause plague, people regarded Cambridge as particularly dangerous.

The long adherence in British practice to what is sometimes called a "miasmic" theory, tracing illness to foul fumes and water produced by unsanitary human behavior, and indeed the divergence of opinion among India-based officials, also traced here, have been analyzed elsewhere, so the problem is not one of new research as much as one of presentation.

imbroglio, Pak-India miasmic politics, Pak-US `play' of `second fiddling', even in `fiddle-faddle' matters has political nuances of its own.

A miasmic dust cloud settled over a husband on a boating outing, and afterwards he began to shrink, eventually residing in his child's dollhouse with a giant woman, his wife, looming.

Commenting on the numerous dreams in which Junger sees Hitler--under the nickname of Kniebolo--Mitchell writes: "From such remarks one may surmise that Junger's conception of the Nazi leader was both complex and miasmic, a rickety emotional structure of disdain and admiration" (43).

He's running away from a shapeless miasmic terror by replacing incoherent memories with these fiction scenes.

It took decades and a convergence of ideas (scientific discoveries, a shift in political thinking toward Republican positivism, increased secularization, France's mission to "civilize" the peasantry and colonies) to discredit persistent folk etiologies of miasmic contagion (the spread of disease via odors), in favor of germ theory and sanitation reform (Barnes, 2006).