purulence

• Just like you, Madam, he was touched only by the profits of all that sordid purulence, and he bought his wife pretty dresses and played mathematical games with his little daughter in the drawing room. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
• Already the exploiting class, as it neared the term of its depleted life, was but a mass of purulence. —  The Wrong Twin
• Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time. —  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
• Grossness and purulence stain the dramatic element in the piece, but when all is over pictures and music have done their work of mitigation, and out of the feculent mire there arises a picture of poetic beauty, a vision of suffering and triumphant innocency which pleads movingly for a pardoning embrace. —  Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
• "Iris" as in "Madama Butterfly" we have Japanese music, -- the twanging of samisens and the tinkling of gongs; but it was more coarsely applied, with more apparent and merely outward purpose, and it was only an accompaniment of a vision stained all over with purulence and grossness. —  Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time

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