Utiliser "blight" dans une phrase

1. Melinda had followed Theo's rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?

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2. We ought not to deceive ourselves into thinking that suffering is normative and thus continue to blight the character of God

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3. They’re a blight upon this land and my own, that’s for sure

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4. In the 1930’s, a devastating blight struck

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5. I could still hear the chaos all around me; sporadic last shots being fired, the surprised gasps the appearance of the demon falling from the sky like a blight had caused among what few men remained standing

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6. America took the hard look, at long last, and cleansed this blight from her soul with the blood of six hundred thousand of her young men

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7. The Earth Liberation Front was proud to claim credit for the event, having relieved the earth of what it considered a human created blight

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8. handicapped child is considered a blight on the community

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9. Instead of the uneven surface pocked by destruction, the blight that has affected almost all of his once-loved home, Ralph sees the smoothness of the stone as it meets the glass

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10. without a blight ,

11. and in memory of this blight

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12. 1 But even after materialism and mechanism have been more or less vanquished, the devastating influence of twentieth-century secularism will still blight the spiritual experience of millions of unsuspecting souls

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13. If you succeed, we ask only that you remove the blight of a prison foisted on us without our knowledge

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14. Reserve responds to both the need for investment and the potential blight of inflation

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15. as fatalistic, negative and anti-environmental; a blight on the brave new spirit of global cooperation that the apostate church believes will ‘save the world’

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16. Show us how to use atomic power to bless our children’s children, not to blight them

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17. It is a quaint but wise saying of an old divine, that "true faith has blight eyes, and can see even in the dark

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18. Just the thought of her sent him into a cold sweat; he’d never been in trouble with the police before her yet now he had the blight of the police order hanging over him

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19. "I, uhm, I have tests that I can use to evaluate for root blight and such

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20. It breeds mold and blight,” he paused, realizing she might not know what that meant

21. The Arkenians quenched the earth until the Trader crops died of blight and mold

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22. This crisis of imergence clogging the flows of Eartheart's natural systems trigger her immune responses: expulsions of volcanic ash reducing planes in air, travel on ground, shutting down businesses reducing the destruction of her lungs; earthquakes tectonically shocking electrical grids offline reducing her EM poisoning; cycles of storms blowing rain and sand, enema cleansing and anti-organic scouring, with a single hurricane, blight or swarm eliminating the monocultural food systems that feed the mass that is consuming her

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23. Suppose you have inherited from a mother who loved them as much as you do a precious shelf-full of the poets, cheap editions, entirely free from the blight of commentaries, foot-notes, and introductory biographies

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24. Wretched, indeed, is the hostess upon whose guests has fallen, from whatever cause, a blight

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25. They saw a blight upon the land that stretched further and further with each passing day

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26. "Ma'am, is it possible that the blight of passing and outward circumstance has penetrated to and settled upon what should always be of a sublime inaccessibility, your soul?"

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27. “Of course your father must be informed of the gypsy blight!”

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28. He seemed to be in the middle of a rousing speech, “the Baron has said it for years! They are a blight on the landscape of mighty Trevena

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29. It got infected with blight, a fungus

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30.  Smite with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, with

31. Smite with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight,

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32. severe guilt as a result of that horrid blight upon their history…that of the Holocaust

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33. Late blight turns the foliage black and then moldy

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34. Frustrations of childhood, failures, hurts, jealousies, misinterpretations of childish love affairs, play episodes for which society has such swift punishment, clandestine sex knowledge--these are the experiences which leave their blight on the later love responses

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35. Pages might yet be written to prove, from this illustrious example, the defects of human excellence; to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy

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36. "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"

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37. They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight

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38. That atrocious system which, having attained to the fullest measure of detestable injustice and cruelty, was now fast crumbling into ruin, inevitably doomed to be overwhelmed because it was all so wicked and abominable, inevitably doomed to sink under the blight and curse of senseless and unprofitable selfishness out of existence for ever, its memory universally execrated and abhorred

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39. seated on a toadstool, the deathflower of the potato blight on her breast

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40. Such was his sense of power over this virgin soul, trusting him as she did, that the minister felt potent to blight all the field of innocence with but one wicked look, and develop all its opposite with but a word

41. A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town

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42. The right of lords to refuse such requests on a whim, and blight the course of a serf’ s life, was one of the peasants ’ greatest gripes

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43. They had to don facial masks to combat a blight of mold

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44. Tess's passing corporeal blight had been her mental harvest

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45. A Blight Zone

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46. And it turned out he’d been right! A simple Blight Zone decree had changed everything, turned breakdowns to fast-tracks

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47. The thing he’s done: revenge for the Blight Zone, for Sam, for the general fuckedness of this life

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48. As a tool for reversing what had happened with the Blight Zone, it was brilliant, but also predicated on Sam’s not snitching—on a loyalty Nicky should have known from the fanzines didn’t exist

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49. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism

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50. And on Lydgate's enthusiasm there was constantly pressing not a simple weight of sorrow, but the biting presence of a petty degrading care, such as casts the blight of irony over all higher effort

51. Everything that bad happened to him there seemed a mere preparation for this hateful fatality, which had come as a blight on his honorable ambition, and must make even people who had only vulgar standards regard his reputation as irrevocably damaged

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52. whose prospects were under the same blight with her aunt's

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53. But there were strong cords pulling him back from that abrupt departure: the blight on his happiness in thinking of Dorothea, the crushing of that chief hope which had remained in spite of the acknowledged necessity for renunciation, was too fresh a misery for him to resign himself to it and go straightway into a distance which was also despair

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54. there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their

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55. For instance, in the case of an agricultural commodity, there will be news stories about how the world is running out of the commodity, probably a story here and there about some blight that will destroy the crop on one continent or another, and what are basically calls for the end of the world

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56. He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat

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57. And he harvested the men with maniac gesticulations and eruptions of lava enough to lay a village and bury a blight

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58. When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay

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59. The more you and I converse, the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me

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60. Rochester—his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked—“What have

61. There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable

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62. These days, it is blight and disease, not freezes, that pose the greatest threat to Florida oranges

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63. But I am particularly interested in the school business, because it seems to me that the blight can disappear only when there are millions of Coopers

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64. Moslemism was, is, and always will be, a blight on that scientific progress which has marked—"

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65. The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight, and apparently engaged in the repair of his support

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66. But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight

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67. I thought of the promise of virtues which he had displayed on the opening of his existence and the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and scorn which his protectors had manifested towards him

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68. But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound

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69. Conventional ideas are apt to wilt under the blight of poverty, and to revive under the fuller harvesting of this world’s goods, and Mr

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70. Most women of twenty-four have had some experience of love as a passion; they have known its fullness or its blight, or more often still, they have frittered it away in successive flirtations, but with Deena it had come as a revelation and been consecrated to one

71. I looked about me in Wall Street; in my mind’s eye I saw the great rascals of “high finance,” their respectability stripped from them, saw them gathering in the spoils which their cleverly trained agents, commercial and political and legal, filched with light fingers from the pockets of the crowd, saw the crowd looking up to these trainers and employers of pickpockets, hailing them “captains of industry”! They reaped only where and what others had sown; they touched industry only to plunder and to blight it; they organized it only that its profits might go to those who did not toil and who despised those who did

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