recrudescencein a sentence
- a recrudescence of the symptoms
- a recrudescence of racism
- We are seeing a recrudescence of these contentions by scientists, even to the recent suggestion that men with lower IQs (by white-oriented tests) be paid to have vasectomies—one thousand dollars for each point lower than 100, so that a man with an IQ of 90 would get ten thousand dollars to have himself sterilized.† (source)
- The first month of the plague ended gloomily, with a violent recrudescence of the epidemic and a dramatic sermon preached by Father Paneloux, the Jesuit priest who had given an arm to old Michel when he was tottering home at the start of his illness.† (source)
- About the same time we had a recrudescence of outbreaks of fire, especially in the residential area near the west gate.† (source)
- While not dissenting, the old doctor reminded him that the future remained uncertain; history proved that epidemics have a way of recrudescing when least expected.† (source)
- "What can I tell you?" he demanded, with a recrudescence of fierceness.† (source)
- A recrudescence of anger glinted in Weedon Scott's grey eyes, and he muttered savagely, "The beast!"† (source)
- A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.† (source)
- And the dwindling shreds of the humanity still startled me every now and then,—a momentary recrudescence of speech perhaps, an unexpected dexterity of the fore-feet, a pitiful attempt to walk erect.† (source)
- Fancy might have regarded the act as the recrudescence of a trick in which her armed progenitors were not unpractised.† (source)
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- A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT.† (source)
- Then there would be an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, poverty, a stone about his neck, the future.† (source)
- Nevertheless, at certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the civilized world. obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the…† (source)
- An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.† (source)
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