Not infrequently a severe chest infection or pneumonia is the first manifestation, as are symptoms such as lassitude, weight loss, dyspnoea and night sweats.
Explanations that emphasize blindness or moral lassitude have proved tempting for many scholars.
For the sternest of these writers, to stray from the course of nature was a matter of moral lassitude but not of miracles.
The symptoms associated with myelofibrosis are variable and in more than 50% of patients include marked lassitude, loss of weight and night sweats.
The early 1930s was a time of lassitude and decay.
But behind that air of lassitude there is always the very keenest intellect, and woe betide anybody who interrupts him.
Why have we this sense of lassitude, of ennui, throughout the economy?
On leaving hospital, one feels a certain amount of lassitude and one asks oneself whether there is any future, any prospect.
