Literary note (auto-generated)
The term "detrimental" has been used in literature to denote a wide range of harmful effects, whether physical, social, or moral. Authors like Yogananda [1] and Nietzsche [2] employ the word to illustrate the adverse impacts on physical well‐being, such as sensitive tissues or bodily processes, while Dickens [3] and Santayana [4] extend its usage to describe harmful dynamics in human character and society. The narrative further evolves with examples from Wagner [5, 6], where detrimental influences are linked to the decline of artistic careers, and from Chekhov [7] and Graves [8], who use it to illustrate the negative consequences on state prosperity or spiritual life. This varied application underscores the versatility of "detrimental" in capturing the essence of damage and decay in multiple realms of human experience.
- "You saw how any slight outside interference is detrimental to the sensitive tissues," Bose remarked.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It involves a rapid wasting away of nervous energy, an abnormal increase of detrimental secretions, as, for instance, that of bile into the stomach.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - The ideal commonwealth can extend to the limit at which such concessions cease to be just and are thereby detrimental.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - She had at this time already fallen into the unfortunate position which was so detrimental to her artistic career.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - Incidentally I may remark that this premature development proved injurious to Clara's voice, and was detrimental to her whole career.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - After a moment’s thought I say: “The cutting down of forests has been greatly detrimental to the prosperity of Russia. . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - "They abjured the pleasures of the body, not desiring mortal offspring, and they renounced marriage, believing it to be detrimental to a holy life."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves