Malaise

They say it's a malaise which has struck all Western peoples as the century—any century—draws to a close.

Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body—making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.

But his feeling of joy and triumph had departed; he was left with a sense of deep malaise and impending doom.

Today, in mysterious malaise, he raged or rejoiced with equal nervous swiftness, and today the light of spring was so winsome that he lifted his head and saw.

It was an unspeakable malaise, an affliction which could not even be named, and which no longer confined itself to dreams of an underworld husband … my mother had fallen (as my father would soon fall) under the spell of the telephone.

Poor Whitcomb, sighed the chaplain, and blamed himself for his assistant’s malaise.