Katherine Dunn

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

American Novelist

Justin Cartwright

The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that the darkish miasma that was Robert Streeter's original allegory of truth and light striking the university is now bright with playful cherubs and lustrous clouds.

British Novelist

Will Self

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.

English Author

Alice Walker

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

American Author

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

British Producer

Stacey Abrams

The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.

American Politician

Timothy Morton

Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.

English Philosopher

George Steiner

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

American Critic

Miasma often suggests harmful or oppressive qualities of the unpleasant smell.

Negative Connotation

It usually refers to strong, pervasive smells, not mild or fleeting ones.

Intensity of Smell

Although about smell, it can suggest a visible, fog-like presence.

Evokes Visual Imagery

Miasma can metaphorically describe a pervasive negative influence or mood.

Atmospheric Metaphor

The figurative use implies the negative atmosphere is hard to escape from, much like a bad smell.

Subtly Invasive

It's often used in literature or drama to set the mood or underscore conflict.

Used in Drama

Often relates to societal issues where morality is compromised.

Moral Decay

It suggests an abstract, almost tangible force affecting behavior or thought.

Abstract Influence

Understand it as a historical concept not used in modern medical science.

Historical Context

Used to describe an obsolete medical theory, not current practices.

Outdated Medical Term

 real possibility that under michelle bachelet united nations will finally and seriously address the myriad of women's issues that have been allowed to dissolve in a miasma of passivity and indifference issues that so compromised the lives women lead whether it's female

Advocating for gender...

 You'd probably think that absurd, and, don't worry, it's completely wrong. Yet that's actually what people thought caused diseases for several centuries. They called it miasma theory, and everyone from the public to the medical establishment accepted it.

How a few scientists...

 not bad air or miasmas, as was previously thought. So malaria should be a relatively simple disease to solve, and yet to this day, hundreds of thousands of people are going to die from the bite of a mosquito. Why is that? This is a question that's