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Физическое состояние боли, различные заболевания, диагнозы становятся
оценочными метафорами. Обозначение неблагоприятных ситуаций как
«гнойников», «язв», «эпидемий», «паралича», оценка содержания речи как «бреда»,
а экономических трудностей как «приступов удушья» делает картину очень
наглядной и активизирует эмоциональное восприятие читателями
соответствующих реалий (60).
Radosław Fogiel, an adviser to the PiS chairman, Jarosław Kaczyński, blamed the
opposition for beginning the split in Polish society but admitted that the atmosphere was
unhealthy (Guardian, 12.09.2019).
With Parliament prorogued, politics in paralysis and the Brexit turmoil as
intractable as ever, comes the arrival of David Cameron’s long-delayed memoirs (Daily
Mail, 12.09.2019).
I believed an epidemic of lying had infected No 10 over Saddam Hussein’s non-
existent weapons of mass destruction (Daily Mail, 30.08.2019).
Over the past decade, their Brexit fever has packed the Commons with Europhobes
(Guardian, 30.09.2019).
But grim it is: this country on the verge of a nervous breakdown feels grimmer than
I can ever remember, on both sides of the angry Brexit divide (Guardian, 08.04.2019).
Since the days of Beaverbrook and Northcliffe, this country has suffered
exceptionally from the blight of an extreme rightwing press ownership (Guardian,
09.07.2019).
The bigoted, Bible-bashing, tribal Ulster face of the DUP we see at Westminster is
a travesty as a representation of the Northern Irish people, as out of kilter over abortion
as over Brexit (Guardian, 25.04.2019).
Even if Theresa May’s rotten deal scrapes through, Brexit will fester for a
generation (Guardian, 11.03.2019).
But come an election, mere announcements of a bit of easing up won’t expunge the
bitter era of cuts that will scar the public service landscape for years to come (Guardian,