10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIASMICALLY»
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1
A Person of Some Importance
... branches that met overhead; here and there a spreading jack-fruit cast a
blacker shadow, through which they struggled like men in a cavern; occasionally
they passed boggy pits, steaming miasmically, orange trees of penetrating
fragrance, ...
2
Zone policeman 88: a close range study of the Panama Canal ...
Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in,
the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets. Earth and air seemed heavy and toil-
bowed by comparison with other days. The jungle still hummed busily, yet, ...
Harry Alverson Franck,
1920
3
The Kingdoms of the World
... which they struggled like men in a cavern; occasionally they passed boggy pits
, steaming miasmically, orangetrees of penetrating fragrance, groves of bananas,
rustling their tattered leaves, and grown together in an impenetrable jungle.
4
Things as they are in Panama
Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in,
the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets. Earth and air seemed heavy and toil-
bowed by comparison with other days. The jungle still hummed busily, yet, ...
Harry Alverson Franck,
1913
5
Black Mischief: Scoop ; The Loved One ; The Ordeal of ...
And at that moment, suddenly, miasmically, in the fiery wilderness, there came an
apparition. A voice said in English, 'Anyone mind if I park myself here?' and a
stranger stood at the table, as though conjured there b\ William's unexpressed ...
Out of the death-grey mask and a brutal beak capable of blinding—and in some
instances, murder—nostrils rise to sit like caves in which the stews of the world
miasmically circulate. He tries to remember what dreams of flying mean. do they ...
7
William Walton: Muse of Fire
Why he has never achieved any Oscars for this or any of my Shakespeare films
must remain a prime example of the miasmically mysterious conclusions reached
by the award-giving organisations.' ' ' This was obviously music that should not ...
Leaving aside the fundamental pessimism that MacNamara hangs miasmically
over his little valley, the point I want to emphasize is Marse's interesting ability to
be at once marginal and necessary to her social environment. Marse is endured
...
Mary-Jo DelVecchio DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto,
2008
9
Local Shakespeares: Proximations and Power
But cause ofinfection was in the early modern period also construed as,
additionally, potentially exogenous, prompted by 'miasmically polluted' air or “
invasiver contaminated by determinate, pathogenic entities' (97) emanating from
outside the ...
The stink of urine and sweat hung miasmically in the air, stronger even than the
falling of rain right by the cabin door, sweeping around the scene even as I fought
with the weariness sweeping over my body. The dim sweep of clouds were ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIASMICALLY»
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Exit Planet Dust Turns 20
... like the part on “Chico's Groove” where one bassline gives way to another, or way the beat dissolves miasmically and then snaps violently ... «Stereogum, Jun 15»
Check out the funereal 'Let You' from Nosaj Thing's upcoming third …
Funereal synths creep miasmically beneath garbled yammering vocal samples and the ticking percussion of a sparse beat, more urgent and ... «The 405, Apr 15»
Bryan Ferry, Avonmore, album review: You can't ask for more than …
It's a matter of surfaces and textures: opener “Loop De Li” shuffles in miasmically, Ferry's voice little more than a boudoir murmur as he evokes ... «The Independent, Nov 14»
'We Are Monster': Edinburgh Review
Fred Portelli's score seldom misses the chance to underline the doomy ominousness of proceedings, while the miasmically unwholesome ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jun 14»
Album: Mark Lanegan Band, Blues Funeral (4AD)
... for the songs by Alain Johannes, with textured layers of synths, Mellotron and guitars swirling miasmically about Lanegan's smoky baritone. «The Independent, Feb 12»