Struldbruggian

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Struldbruggian.
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2. Having or relating to an unsatisfactory form of immortality accompanied by aging and disease.

Examples

“The methods employed to select⟳ economic and political leaders must be modified in a manner suited to allow⟳, in the future, a sufficient number⟳ of places to those under (say⟳) fifty; otherwise, given both present⟳ methods of selection and prospective changes in age composition, too much power may pass⟳ into the hands of gerontocrats with a Struldbruggian incapacity for fashioning or selecting economic and political policies suited to the needs of the times.”

“Here are all the elements of a truly creative scepticism blended for once into a manageable and yet an infinitely expandable pattern. It might have⟳ required at least ten more years (if Adams could have⟳ counted on escaping Struldbruggian senescence) for him to set⟳ this insight to work⟳.”

“Critics of techniques to lengthen the human life span often paint⟳ a Struldbruggian picture of our future. In these scenarios, a large elderly population is kept alive only through incredibly expensive medical techniques paid for by the young.”

“Tithonus, reaching for immortality, achieves only a struldbruggian kind of existence; and Ulysses in his infinite search⟳ for knowledge sets out with his mariners on that final voyage that leads them only deathward.”

“In short, if we imagine⟳ a person continuing to live⟳ indefinitely while remaining vulnerable to such evils as disease, injury, and aging, we are in effect imagining a struldbruggian immortality.”

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