What propels this novel is not sexual passion or spiritual malaise but the exigencies of domestic responsibility.

Each day meditation did less to ease her spiritual malaise.

On the heels of these setbacks appeared the first signs of what might be termed a spiritual malaise.

There is a spiritual malaise, a heartsickness at the core of this adaptation that Corneille never would have recognized.

A hefty raise might cure him of his spiritual malaise.

The Iranians were in the grip of spiritual malaise.

It is a spiritual malaise, an instrument of Satan.

She found herself increasingly in disharmony with the spiritual malaise prevailing at the Incarnation.

It was more than just spiritual malaise that washed out seven out of ten exterior construction workers in their first tour.

It is no wonder these tales of a country afflicted by a spiritual malaise, whose citizens increasingly fear each other, resonate with British readers.