As Mukherjee writes, "Cancer is indeed the load built into our genome, the leaden counterweight to our aspirations for immortality. ""
Flashes of lightning lit up the dark, cloudy sky, whose uniform leaden gloom HAD by now broken up into patches of black and grey.
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud and when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle.
In America and Europe, the world's biggest consumer markets, many firms have been similarly leaden-footed.
I readily agreed, but for all my eagerness there was a leaden feeling deep in my stomach.
Then again, cheering crowds are being bused into stadia by the government, armed with noise-makers and decked in colourful attire to improve the leaden atmosphere inside.
It was almost black, dotted with ugly leaden rain clouds.
Already the stars have lost some of their sparkle, and a dull, leaden mist skirts the horizon.
A lone hawk from afar swooped down from the sky, as if angered, angered by these leaden skies, its spread wings unmoving, until it almost hit the earthen slope of the stream's opposite bank; then it beat its wings and soared back up with a savage stridor.
Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.
In the second morning, snowflake fell from leaden sky.
I did not know what to say, submerged in silence like a leaden well that I endured in the chatter of the room.
The sky, for one, hung leaden and low, and the sun, though risen, could not be detected through the curtain of haze.
The wind, a whiff of wind from the unknown, bringing faint fragrance arrives with no trace, awakening my being leaden slumbering heart. In a flash, my entire body is stretching at ease.
She stopped smiling, she moved in a leaden manner, she avoided people.
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow, And leaden-eyed despairs.
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