She reveals a generally essentialist set of opinions on women's health, with
sickliness viewed as a desirably feminine attribute and, conversely, as retribution for unfeminine behaviour.
For Schlegel, the literary arabesque represents the highest form the Romantic novel can reach, rendering the "degenerate
sickliness and prosaic nature of the times" into "an artistically ordered chaos of enticing symmetries and contradictions" (Jeness 63).
Tongue-in-cheek moments save the scenes from
sickliness.
"The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the
sickliness of Jekyll" In other words, if you practice evil, you become evil.
A sliced loaf in waxed paper would disappear in the blink of an eye as from these meagre ingredients sandwiches were made -sugar pieces, they called them and when I was given one I was almost sick with the crunchy
sickliness of it.
thy flag afiaunt/Thou lusty Troynovaunt!"); and then, after this elaborate Georgian
sickliness, spare free verse thin and clipped on the page, in imitation of E.
A number of the women explained that sickness, or more often, "
sickliness," in the family had led them to bear a particularly large share of the burdens of the home.
Europe becomes a symbol of motherhood and immortality: "Her stones, chiseled by the hands of past generations, the swarm of her faces emerging from carved wood, from paintings, from the gilt of embroidered fabrics, soothed one, and my voice was added to her old challenges and oaths in spite of my refusal to accept her split and her
sickliness. Europe, after all, was home to me" (293).
AS the scrawny, size-eight figure took centre-stage in a rosebud pink, insipid bridesmaid-style frock I knew we were in for a performance of
sickliness unparalleled in Oscar history.
Dorn's poem, much less confident than Antin's talk about the irrelevance of British culture in the United States or the
sickliness of its influence there, at first seems rooted in the longstanding American desire to assert national identity against all that which might be thought to cover it over.
There is a pattern of
sickliness among today's children that was unknown several generations ago.
They feared not only that Jewish
sickliness kept them from being accepted as healthy "normal" Europeans but also that they, too, could get sick someday.
