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  • But over the summer his encroaching dementia had taken a cruel twist.†   (source)
  • It went on to talk about a five— to seven-day incubation period and the symptoms—how such things as irritability and trouble with balance were early warning signs, followed by dementia, paranoia and severe aggression later on.†   (source)
  • He was eventually freed from slavery at the age of forty, only to be committed later to an asylum for dementia.†   (source)
  • I was so shaken that I had to look around to get my bearings — frothy gray facade of the Alwyn, like some lurid dementia of the Baroque—and the floodlights on the cut-work, the Christmas decorations on the door of Petrossian struck some deep-embedded memory gong: December, my mother in a snow hat: here baby, let me run around the corner and buy some croissants for breakfast ….†   (source)
  • But Andy Harris, still at the oxygen cache, in-the throes of his hypoxic dementia, overheard these radio calls and broke in to tell Hall-incorrectly, just as he'd told Mike Groom and me-that all the bottles at the South Summit were empty.†   (source)
  • At River Reach the rules were built around dementia.†   (source)
  • Senile dementia.†   (source)
  • The desperation of the request revealed his dementia, and the council saw him for what he truly was.†   (source)
  • She procured a good supply of antibiotic drugs from our granddad Dr. Bud Wharton, who has senile dementia and loves to walk outdoors naked but still can do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.†   (source)
  • They could, as could Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.†   (source)
  • He had become unmanageable, his dementia profound.†   (source)
  • Juanita and her folks knew where they stood with a certitude that bordered on dementia.†   (source)
  • Toward the end, Alex suffered hallucinations and dementia, no longer recognizing his mother or father.†   (source)
  • We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families, before dementia sets in.†   (source)
  • Is it dementia?†   (source)
  • He remained stubbornly distant even as he faded into dementia in his sixties.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo Daza played for high stakes, because his sweetheart was the darling of a typical family of the region: an intricate tribe of wild women and softhearted men who were obsessed to the point of dementia with their sense of honor.†   (source)
  • From some need of his own, Don Bernardo pretended his wife was just under the weather rather than suffering from dementia.†   (source)
  • A smaller group includes those suffering from dementia.†   (source)
  • Not Bree, not Kristina, but some evil incarnation glaring back at me, a horrid red-eyed crone, materialized as if from darkest dementia, nightmares to come, hibernating inside of me.†   (source)
  • There is no doubt that Ebola damages the brain and causes psychotic dementia.†   (source)
  • Is dementia one of your symptoms?†   (source)
  • "Dementia?" said Puller, and Cole nodded.†   (source)
  • His father was deceased, he had no siblings, and his mother was in a nursing home and suffering from dementia.†   (source)
  • If you ask him why, he'll credit altitude-induced dementia.†   (source)
  • I don't suffer from libertine dementia, Dr. Cross.†   (source)
  • If Popsy steps down, or word gets out that he has early dementia, the house of cards falls.†   (source)
  • There's no physical evidence of dementia anymore.†   (source)
  • After ten minutes, it was obvious he was suffering from some type of dementia.†   (source)
  • It springs from a deeper well, safe from dementia and the passage of time.†   (source)
  • Senile dementia.†   (source)
  • That was merely obsessive manic-depression bordering on dementia praecox.†   (source)
  • They grant the enemy's basic premise, thus granting the sanction of reason to formal dementia, A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.†   (source)
  • Abby used to worry about becoming forgetful, because her maternal grandfather had ended up with dementia.†   (source)
  • She was so chaotically in love with Nathan that it was like dementia, and it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.†   (source)
  • The doctor also said the dementia would progress and that Walter would likely become incapacitated.†   (source)
  • Was her aunt also showing signs of dementia?†   (source)
  • The Parkinson's was eating her body and the dementia was eating her mind.†   (source)
  • At first they thought it was some sort of early dementia.†   (source)
  • The advanced stages of Parkinson's and dementia were taking a toll on her.†   (source)
  • Tread a pool of murky water, dreams gone stagnant, or brewing dementia.†   (source)
  • Popsy's dementia no longer needed to be concealed.†   (source)
  • His strange nature, which someone once praised in a speech as lucid dementia, allowed him to see in an instant what no one else ever saw in Florentino Ariza.†   (source)
  • Black men, women, and children suffering with everything from dementia and tuberculosis to "nervousness," "lack of self-confidence," and epilepsy were packed into every conceivable space, including windowless basement rooms and barred-in porches.†   (source)
  • Dementia was her mother's redemption, and God would forgive them both for having hurt each other all these years.†   (source)
  • He remained kind and charming until the very end, despite his increasing confusion from the advancing dementia.†   (source)
  • Her mother had never expressed vanity about her looks, but with the dementia, the modesty censors must not have been working.†   (source)
  • Some are sharper than you or I, others are easily confused and have signs of dementia due to Alzheimer's or what have you.†   (source)
  • Now that Ruth could no longer blame her mother's problems on the eccentricities of her personality, she saw the signs of dementia everywhere.†   (source)
  • It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.†   (source)
  • Dementia was like a truth serum.†   (source)
  • Dementia?†   (source)
  • Dementia.†   (source)
  • First he was put in the dementia ward for chronic long-term patients who are completely unable to take care of themselves.†   (source)
  • A paranoid schizophrenic whose logged telephone calls show a man disintegrating into dementia, making insane accusations, wild threats aimed at those trying to help him?†   (source)
  • My mid-October birthday always meant a tripto San Francisco to play tourist on Fisherman's Wharf, scarf toomuch seafood, shop Ghiradelli Square, and visit my grandma'to see just how far she had slipped away toward the underworld of dementia.†   (source)
  • Just as we had risen to go back to the Pink Palace his tone turned serious, and gazing at me from that smoky region behind the pupil of the eye where I knew dementia lurked, he 'said, "I didn't want to tell you this until now, so you'll have something to think about tomorrow morning on your way to the country.†   (source)
  • He had no intention of attending so much as a single session of the congress—he could imagine it well enough, new pamphlets by Bleuler and the elder Forel that he could much better digest at home, the paper by the American who cured dementia praecox by pulling out his patient's teeth or cauterizing their tonsils, the half-derisive respect with which this idea would be greeted, for no more reason than that America was such a rich and powerful country.†   (source)
  • Juanita Haydock talked a good deal in her rattling voice but it was invariably of personalities: the rumor that Raymie Wutherspoon was going to send for a pair of patent leather shoes with gray buttoned tops; the rheumatism of Champ Perry; the state of Guy Pollock's grippe; and the dementia of Jim Howland in painting his fence salmon-pink.†   (source)
  • Whatever they thought about her sex morals, her infidelity to United Brethrenism, and her general dementia, they had not suspected that she could commit such an obscenity as smoking.†   (source)
  • The doctors say it's senile dementia.†   (source)
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