miasma

How To Use miasma In A Sentence

• We can see hints of miasma too, again in the backstory, in the death of Semele and her pointedly untended grave. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
• He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
• `Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin. GOODBYE CURATE
• Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
• His eyes were wide, and Egewe sensed the hot miasma of emotions that the boy was emitting.
• A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
• Today's the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning.
• The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant. _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
• A miasma of middle class angst simultaneously stings granny and granddaughter into revenge against Annie at the same time it is paralysing their victim.
• Again, exposition; but a key thing to consider: the Greek concept of miasma is at play here. More on Prologues