Word: sickening
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...better themselves. By first flinging bits of raw, unfiltered indictments of urban life at its audience, "Warriors" depresses the spirit in order to redeem it with a glimmer of hope in the end. While violence serves a dual purpose, to caress the fetish as well as to sicken the heart, it is the latter purpose Tamahori hopes will resonate most deeply with his audiences...
...story by Tarantino), in which the heroes are psychopaths who kill scores of innocent people and get away with it, riding off into the sunset to commit more acts of ultraviolence, the term coined in the before-its-time A Clockwork Orange. But while Orange aimed to sicken the viewer with its scenes of random gut-check violence, the 90s-style film revels...
PATHOGENS: These include bacteria, viruses and protozoa such as the cryptosporidium that struck Milwaukee. These sicken 900,000 people a year, says the N.R.D.C. report, and kill perhaps 900, usually those with weak immune systems (the very young and very old, AIDS sufferers and organ-transplant patients...
...acid rain, posing a further threat to the phytoplankton that is the base food supply for the region's abundant fisheries. And it enters the air passages and lungs of all breathing creatures. Kuwaitis who have seen the blackened lungs of slaughtered animals and watched livestock and wildlife sicken and die can only wonder what effect the ubiquitous mist is having on humans...
...that, according to Jacob Fabrikant, an expert on the biological effects of radiation, is "far too low to pose a risk to the health of individuals." Yet there is agreement that radiation doses of more than 50 rems, a measure of the effect of radiation on the body, can sicken and even kill. It may do so by changing the chemical makeup of cells. A large enough dose can cause genetic defects and lead to cancer. Massive exposure in a brief period can result in radiation sickness and death within a short time...