Sentences with phrase «near fatal illness»
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At our last lunch, on Lexington near 60th, not long before his final illness, he noted with disapproval the anorexic waitresses and expatiated engagingly on why the fashions of androgyny are part and parcel of the propensity for abstraction that is the fatal flaw of Western culture.
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In 1820, at age seventy - three, Francisco de Goya survived yet another near - fatal illness, only to face exile.
Surviving a painful, near - fatal illness should have made me intensely grateful for ordinary life.