| For Van Horn had often listened to the recitals of Jerry's pedigree by Tom Haggin, over Scotch-and-sodas, when it was too pestilentially hot to go to bed. |
| Yet for all the growing body of evidence of its impact, soot remains a pestilentially difficult substance to study. |
| They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River. |
| The figure of Nosferatu in that light becomes readable as a grotesque and frightening form of desire, a version of the awakened or indulged wish that's both irresistibly powerful and pestilentially dangerous. |
