How To Use Enfeeble In A Sentence
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They are better suited to the decimation and enfeeblement of vulnerable civilians than to destroying promptly an enemy's military units.
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In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" --
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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If you think about it not that you will while you're watching this show, "Matilda" addresses many of the national worries that dominate the daily news here: an enfeebled and ineffective education system, corrupt business practices, abuses of power, organized crime, the mind-rotting effects of bad television, the imperilment of public libraries and the popularity of those tacky dance competitions.
NYT > Global Home
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Only a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops - within six months and with no preconditions - can break the paralysis that now enfeebles our diplomacy and the greatest obstacles to cutting and running are the psychological inhibitions of our leaders and the public:" Lt Gen William E. Odom (ret)
FINALLY, A QUICK, DECISIVE AND HONORABLE EXIT PLAN FOR IRAQ
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When President Bush stands before Congress on Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union address, it is a safe bet that he will not announce that one of his goals is the long-term enfeeblement of the Democratic Party.
January 2005
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A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely.
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What ought to lead France to join with America is the great enfeeblement of England to be effected by the subtraction of a third of her Empire.
Robert Naiman: Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghanistan?
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The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
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One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work.
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It is, however, simply a mark of the enfeeblement of Parliament that it now has the time to concern itself with froth and trivia.
Give Us Back Our Country & Our County
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The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
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The sinapism will draw the current of the circulation to the exterior, the metastasis to the lungs or intestines is prevented, and the enfeebled nervous system is stimulated to renewed vigor by the peripheral irritation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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One major factor, of course, was that the possible alternatives seemed enfeebled and lacking in conviction.
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He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health.
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Driven by ever accelerating information technology and the greed of the affluent, this process is leading inexorably to an enfeeblement of the weak and alienation of the poor.
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Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community.
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As quickly as his enfeebled muscles would allow, he made his way to what seemed to be the front of the room, and checked the giant roster for his schedule.
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Still it's surely worth pointing out that sterling's latest enfeeblement hasn't stopped U.K. insurer Prudential attempting the enormous feat of buying up AIG
Weighing the Benefits of a Weak Pound
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Grieve says it "is a good remedy for enfeebled digestion and debility," that it "will relieve melancholia and help to dispel the yellow hue of jaundice from the skin," that it acts as a diuretic, that it's a good vermifuge duh, and that it's a good "mental restorative.
Absinthe
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He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies.
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The result will be the further long-term enfeeblement of the United States, the country with which Canada has so closely tied and aligned itself.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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To most men the production, twice a week, of a newspaper so wide in scope as the _Covent Garden Journal_ (for its columns included the news of the day, as well as the manifold 'censorial' energies of _Sir Alexander_) would have been occupation enough; especially with a "constitution now greatly impaired and enfeebled," and when "labouring under attacks of the gout, which were, of course, severer than ever.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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Among the weaklings : the won, the rupee, the rupiah, the rand, and the Turkish lira, all of which have lost ground versus the enfeebled dollar this year.
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He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old.
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Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community.
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At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him.
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He indulges the feelings, while he enfeebles the reason; and we refuse to allow him to have authority over the mind of man; for he has no measure of greater and less, and is a maker of images and very far gone from truth.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Another important form of classification emerged in 1896 with Emil Kraepelins model of dementia praecox, first used by Morel in 1860 and described as irrecoverable cortical brain disease producing a particular kind of mental enfeeblement in the young.
Bedlam
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Shivering, she was then pushed into a hut where sixty other inmates existed from day to day, fearful, foul-smelling and enfeebled.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia.
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The contrast between these recommendations and the then enfeebled state of planning practice was striking.
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The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
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And how quickly would one accrue speed, falling through the Moon's enfeebled gravity?
ANTI-ICE
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What I am most worried about is a state of enfeeblement inexplicable in a man who is neither cancerous nor diabetical.
Là-bas
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But our dislike of Shiver served only to remind us of a certain displeasure we have been feeling lately with young adult fiction in general and YA aimed at teenage girls in particular; namely, the Enfeebled Heroine.
Today's Book Review
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My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out.
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To Emanuel, victory is the only thing, and rather than recognize the error of his ways and recalibrate, he is publicly declaring that the now widely-recognized enfeeblement of his boss's presidency is not his failure, but his vindication.
Popping the Washington Post's Rahm Bubble
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Our indebtedness enfeebles the range of our responses to what are cataclysmic forces.
Waiting for Ramsay MacDonald?
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If Lear is played too old and too enfeebled to continue to do his job, then the play becomes a tragedy of old age and filial lack of attention, which is not the full play.
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The unions have become like a resident Grandad - no less embarrassing for enfeeblement, but still handy with his wallet.
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What worries me is that there will be enfeeblement, helplessness, that I will go on for years unable to sense my decline, my lunacy, and oblivious to all my indignities.
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And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
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We enfeeble ourselves clinging to transient, ephemeral material things and relationships.
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A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own. . .truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more.
Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
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By those lights – see the reversed decisions to kill 6 Music and the Asian Network – the prospect of total loss is better at rallying public outrage than enfeeblement by a thousand cuts.
It's the end of the road for BBC cuts – until next time
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I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
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She is enfeebled, dropsical, perpetually damp from cooking and cleaning, toothless, and refuses to wear false teeth (Janet remarks that Mother can never find comfortable teeth).
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It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
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Despite her vehement protests, he hauled her enfeebled body inside and turned, laughing with delight.
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Nordau believed that “degeneration,” a nervous disorder that beset the modern age, especially enfeebled Jews.
Bloodlust
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Once again, though with sympathy and concern this time, he was writing of a grave ailment: the pandemic enfeeblement in Australia's institutions of higher learning.
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This does not mean that you will instantly become enfeebled, relying on others to do everything for you.
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He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age.
The Famine
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A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own ... truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more.
Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
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He finds himself politically enfeebled.
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With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
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Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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Based on these comments in the pages of Britain's leading conservative magazine, I will no longer bother to worry about the enfeeblement of Britain, the collapse of its sense of moral order, its inability to control drunken yobs in the streets of London and other cities, or its unwillingness to stand up against immigrant groups who would like nothing better than to cut every unbelieving throat in a single night.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-
Archive 2006-01-01
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'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate.
The Mother's Book
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The play during the latter interludes - humane warmth not being Flannery's forte - seems somewhat enfeebled.
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The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
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Only a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops - within six months and with no preconditions - can break the paralysis that now enfeebles our diplomacy.
FINALLY, A QUICK, DECISIVE AND HONORABLE EXIT PLAN FOR IRAQ
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Enfeeble is usually a skill to get after Brain Sap and Nightmare to use on enemy heroes with high damage to reduce their damage capabilities severely.
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Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
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Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
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On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.
A Progressive on the Prairie » April Bibliolust » Print
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Where the people are Catholic and submissive to the law of God, as declared and applied by the vicar of Christ and supreme pastor of the church, democracy may be a good form of government; but combined with Protestantism or infidelity in the people, its inevitable tendency is to lower the standard of morality, to enfeeble intellect, to abase character, and to retard civilization, as even our short American experience amply proves.
GOP Confronts Its Future Viability
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The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons.
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My enfeebled stomach, harrowed and irritated with medicinal compounds, with ipecac, colocynth, tartar-emetic, quinine, and such things, protested against the coarse food.
How I Found Livingstone
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His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
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The Phonograph makes it possible to read by the ear, instead of by the eye; and it is not beyond the range of probability that the book of the future, near or remote, will be written in phonographic plates and made to reveal its story to the waiting ear rather than through the medium of print to the enfeebled and tired eye of the reader.
Audio Technologies Described in 1901 Edition of 1876 History Book
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Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
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This sort of deconstructionism has been done to death, and is so familiar and enfeebled that it can barely lift the gun to its own head.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is
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Influenza, cholera, and at last maculated fever, the progressive enfeeblement of economic life and new developments of human relationship, prevented that
The Shape of Things to Come
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Thank you," I said, trying not to sound too enfeebled, and I heard Dido screech: `Seven-thirty for dinner at eight!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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As the French Foreign Minister wrote at the time to France's Ambassador to Spain: "What ought to lead France to join with America is the great enfeeblement of England to be effected by the subtraction of a third of her Empire.
Robert Naiman: Could a 'Great Negotiation' End the War in Afghanistan?
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But his enfeeblement was more than just a matter of poor health.
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The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled.
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One major factor, of course, was that the possible alternatives seemed enfeebled and lacking in conviction.
