(n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With foreboding I edge on to forbidden terrain.
(3) The theme here is hopeful, aspirant – but there's a foreboding sense that everyone involved may not get quite what they wished for.
(4) Paul writes: Dawn this morning in Washington DC, beneath an unusually foreboding sky.
(5) Today's professional nurse has access to current technology and possesses the assessment skills and knowledge that enable early recognition of signs and symptoms foreboding potentially disastrous complications.
(6) Its opening images – aerial shots of Tom's little car amid bare, ploughed fields – are reminiscent of the overhead photography of the Torrance family car early in The Shining , evoking the same sense of exposure, isolation and foreboding.
(7) Alencar wrote, "The preoccupation with health was frequent: either he was having the consequences of a fit or was foreboding one".
(8) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
(9) This means they receive no help from their local authority, or from family, neighbours or friends.” Calling for an urgent injection of cash into both services, it said: “Unless there is significant change to the funding of our health and social care system for older people as a result of decisions taken in the government’s spending review [next month], we look to the future with considerable foreboding.” The Department of Health disputed the charity’s claim that the social care budget had shrunk by £1.85bn over the last decade and would fall by another £470m this year.
(10) The developmental significance of adolescence experienced under conditions of social isolation and rejection with forebodings of the Holocaust was unrecognized in sanctioned silence and shared analytic denial.
(11) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
(12) However, I am filled with great foreboding when I reflect that the said political-constitutional crisis is going to run concurrent with the sharp deterioration in economic conditions as foreshadowed in this not exactly morale-boosting effort from Mr Hammond.
(13) Although the official Franks report published the year after the Argentinian invasion concluded that it "could not have been foreseen", the newly opened documents detail the growing sense of foreboding among key figures.
(14) It’s the kind of spirit that won them the MLS Cup last year, and such continuation is somewhat foreboding for the rest of the league.
(15) But for Gabrielsson it was also heavy with foreboding.
(16) All animals are equal,” said the foreboding sign on the barn at the end of Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell wrote that, mockingly, as an attack on fascism.
(17) The volume went down immediately and the sense of foreboding during that part of the night was not eased by the fact that Montenegro were defending with great togetherness.
(18) The sense of foreboding that surrounded Leicester City after they sent eyebrows everywhere skywards by replacing Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri during a difficult summer has been blasted away by a team whose desire to prove a point has brought them six from their first two matches.
(19) I kind of wish he had been more foreboding, but he's just very friendly."
(20) Despite these forebodings, clubs from across Europe are plotting to wrench Crocodile Rooney from his primitive existence in the English outback and plunge him straight into a concrete jungle, where he will have to fend for himself with nothing but a sharpened stick and a salary of over £250,000 per week.
Malaise
Definition:
(n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Example Sentences:
(1) An 18 yr old previously well male Taiwanese was admitted with malaise, anorexia, and jaundice for two weeks.
(2) Malaise, fatigability, low-grade fever, aching chest pain and mild cough lasting a few days to a few weeks are usual.
(3) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(4) Symptoms most commonly associated with radiation sickness, such as malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dysphagia, dermatitis, and depleted hemopoietic elements, are usually seen late in the course of radiation therapy or shortly thereafter.
(5) Both presented with abdominal pain and malaise, with hepatomegaly and a variable degree of hepatocellular dysfunction.
(6) A 39-year-old man born in Miyazaki Prefecture was admitted because of jaundice and general malaise of about 10 days' duration.
(7) Other rats tended to avoid the high fat to an extent that was greater than predicted by the theory, suggesting that the fat diet may have caused malaise.
(8) The effect during hypovolemia was evident when subjects had access to adulterated physiological saline, a solution more responsive to the PEG-induced need state, and quinine group behavior was not easily explained in terms of the tastes of quinine and saline combined together nor in terms of a posttreatment malaise effect.
(9) The second case, a 64-year-old man who had used ultrasonic humidifier in his living room, was admitted for 8 weeks with an illness characterized by cough, low fever and general malaise on 22 January 1987.
(10) Faced with such systemic social, economic and environmental malaise we need to build a broad base of campaign leaders from across civil society – people from major non-profits, trade unions and environmental, social justice and faith groups.
(11) Seven of the 12 patients had therapy stopped because of complications; severe malaise and nausea (three cases), decreased renal function (three cases), and blindness (one case).
(12) Toxic reactions included pyrexia, headache, and malaise, which were mild to moderate.
(13) Central to Europe's economic malaise is that its banks are in poor shape.
(14) Two cues, either size or flavor of food pellet, were conditionally paired with either malaise induced by x-ray or pain induced by shock in four groups of rats.
(15) Common clinical symptoms were headache (60%), exertional dyspnea (42%), dizziness (36%), and malaise or weakness (34%).
(16) Interestingly, their report, Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence From Greece, which documents the hidden, non-taxed economy, blames the current malaise not on dodgy taxi drivers or moonlighting refuse collectors, but on the professional classes.
(17) The baby was fed breast milk only when the mother became acutely ill with fever, arthralgia and malaise.
(18) The English have escaped from the stifling post-imperial malaise to provide a political and economic system which is both continuous and dynamic, attracting capital and enterprise from all over the world.
(19) It’s not a strange side effect of Brexit malaise – it’s World Yoga Day.
(20) An indication of the general malaise in the regional market is shown by the Evening Post's circulation slip of 10.9% year on year in the six months to last December, to 34,851 .