How To Use Frailty In A Sentence
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Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
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She died after a long period of increasing frailty.
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When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times.
Times, Sunday Times
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She died after a long period of increasing frailty.
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Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
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In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity?
The Common Reader, Second Series
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Dr Thomas said her frailty and distortion in her back contributed to pneumonia, causing her death.
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Our greatest literary treasure's Talking Heads series captured this nation's idiosyncrasies with his affectionatedissection of human frailty.
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If WOMAN be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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The home visiting service affords benefit to those who are unable to leave their home, due to frailty, disability, illness, or the effects of undergoing cancer treatments.
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The other two injuries expose the frailty of Scotland's reliance on players based in other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength.
Romance Island
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He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word, a man who never spoke ill of another human being and always allowed for human frailty.
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We laypeople tend to use the word imprecisely to allude to fragility or vulnerability in old people, but for physicians and researchers, frailty is a specific medical syndrome with measurable criteria.
NYT > Home Page
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It is about building a politics on a recognition of human frailty and finitude.
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His critique of the mental frailty may be widely shared but letting the players know you think it is a monumental own goal.
The Sun
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The theory acknowledges human frailty and the fact that most of us relapse.
Times, Sunday Times
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He excels at writing about sex and sexuality, which he describes with a graceful wonder that encompasses love's frailty and its brutality at once.
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The frailty of memory in general is an important theme, but how an epidemic of that proportion gets virtually wiped out of the collective memory is still a mystery.
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And they quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of realisation.
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In Delacroix's mind, too, disease, deformity, and physical frailty marked the privileged creator.
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These demographic variables are experienced in addition to high levels of physical dependence, frailty and mental health problems.
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Don't turn your head away, your peculiar modesty would hide what you call frailty and what I call love.
Barks and Purrs
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There is a vast difference between recognising our frailty which is a fact, and insisting that our nature is made up of nothing else, which is not a fact.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity.
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This is a reflection of their frailty.
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A team conspicuous for mental strength have become a team conspicuous for mental frailty.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as
Redgauntlet
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After only three years her natural frailty and the rigours of her ascetic devotions killed her.
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It is the lust of a mother (not, say, an uncle) that so tortures Shakespeare's Hamlet ( "Frailty, thy name is woman"), a girl's sexual fickleness that takes out the hero in Troilus and Cressida, a queen's love for an ass that brings down the house in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
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Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
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For this reason you believe in rebirth in spite of the degradation and frailty of man.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 - Presentation Speech
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The final proof that he was human and his name frailty lies in the fact that he was a busybody.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
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You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty.
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Yet being in Davos in between the rubbernecking, schmoozing and speculation, one can't help but muse about the process of coming of age, or - as Wikipedia describes it - Mann's exploration of ''art, culture, politics, human frailty, and love'' that he set here.
Man(n)'s Magic Contradictions
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As it transpired, the team only needed three to win and while their manager must fret over his side's sudden frailty, he again noted that it is a rich source of entertainment for the rest of us.
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The Asian financial crisis of the nineties exposed the frailty of the Asian tigers ' economic model.
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As he entered old age Philp reacted to increasing disability and frailty with typical resilience and dignity.
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Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
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Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged?
A Love Story
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Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.
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Nevertheless, her Highness, considering the ease as one of human frailty, hath not caused this wanton one to be scourged with nettles, or otherwise to dree penance; but, as two good brethren of the convent of Lindores, the Fathers Thickskull and
The Fair Maid of Perth
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One day somewhere on a yet unprinted calendar, everyone's bottle of human frailty will be half full.
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Bull 1980 in which director Martin Scorsese and his leading man, Robert De Niro, take the poignant story of heavyweight champ Jake LaMotta and alchemise it into a parable about anger, masculinity and human frailty, providing - in the scene where De Niro's hero beats his fists against the walls of his concrete cell - one of cinema's great images of futility and rage.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Any mental or physical frailty is liable to be exposed over such a long period.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the problems of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.
Gridlock
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Trembling brush strokes imply human frailty, just as the screen-like haze evokes a veil drawn over more troubled memories.
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Recent studies had suggested that these children possessed a kind of frailty, that their genetic vulnerability meant that certain triggers during early childhood development could cause irrevocable harm and lead them to certain ‘inevitable’ fates like a life of depression and anti-social behaviors.
The orchid hypothesis / what consumes me, bud caddell
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It became one of my favourite books in terms of its kindness and understanding of human frailty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every once in a while a boxer dies in the ring or a soccer player collapses on the field, and such tragedies make us acutely aware of our own frailty.
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Something as bourgeois as kitchen rotas should not be considered worthy of discussion and yet what alternative lifestyle hasn't floundered on the rocks of human frailty?
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His set-piece frailty was exposed again.
The Sun
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However, those hopes were undermined and then ultimately shattered by a combination of injuries and growing defensive frailty.
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Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working.
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I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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Challenge the system with continuing high unemployment or the need to create a consensus when none exists, as over the treaty, and suddenly its frailty is exposed.
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That ageing is an independent contributor is not surprising, because frailty increases with age, raising the risk of falls and failure of other organ systems.
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It may not have been calculated, but the effect of talking about drink and displaying his frailty was to pick him out from the political crowd as if by a personal spotlight.
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It became one of my favourite books in terms of its kindness and understanding of human frailty.
Times, Sunday Times
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When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behold, therefore, O Lord, my humility and my frailty, which is altogether known to Thee.
XX. Book III: On Inward Consolation. Of Confession of our Infirmity and of the Miseries of this Life
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In Numbers 23:19, for example, the expression specifically contrasts divine perfection with human frailty: “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.”
THE NAMES OF JESUS
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Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
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By the end of the decade there were few speaking as they had been only ten years earlier of US economic frailty or an American inability to compete effectively.
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The fairies not only love human frailty, but also are ardent and devoted lovers of the forest.
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His Lear simultaneously displays kingliness and frailty: he hands out directives, but fumbles.
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The art ... the talent is all that matters to us, the public until our puffing up of said star's balloon bursts all loudly and messily when it touches the needle of human frailty.
The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
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It was our frailty that demanded social cohesion.
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He usually wore, in compliment to his nursing duties, an apron in front; but, as his various avocations pressed hard upon his time, and as his own personal outfit was ever the last to be attended to, Tiff's nether garments had shown traces of that frailty which is incident to all human things.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
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He seemed to me to be really old, but even in death to be lacking in that common frailty I tended to view all the elderly as possessing.
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To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment —
Chapter 14
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Skepticism, rather than doctrinaire conviction, provides the only appropriate safeguard against human frailty and desire.
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Evidence of his physical frailty combined with a seemingly unstoppable output of writing worked powerfully on friends and the public alike.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Evidence of his physical frailty combined with a seemingly unstoppable output of writing worked powerfully on friends and the public alike.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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He knows our human condition, our weakness and frailty, even better than we do.
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As frailty increases that kind of basic tending by the family may ease the terminal phase for everyone, practically and emotionally.
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This was a tragicomic story of human frailty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his occasional indulgence in what he called a fleshly frailty, (and for which he said he had a privilege,) which was in truth an attachment to strong liquors, and that in no moderate degree, his language, at other times remarkably decorous and reserved, became wild and animated.
Woodstock
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Perhaps so, but the great attraction of sport is that, still in 2001, it holds a mirror to the human condition in all its strength and frailty.
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The towers were thin, delicate looking; the whole place had an air of daintiness and frailty to it.
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Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
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He suffered from increasing physical and mental frailty in his last few years and lived in a nursing home.
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Her humor always made us, in some sense, realize the frailty of our human life.
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As frailty increases that kind of basic tending by the family may ease the terminal phase for everyone, practically and emotionally.
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The frailty of US conditions was evident virtually across the board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working.
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High-intensity resistance exercise training counteracts muscle weakness and physical frailty in very elderly people.
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The beauty of a living thing springs directly from its frailty, its coming and its going.
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Her red, curving mouth of a child, cleft chin, and dimpled, tapering hands all promised a certain yieldingness of disposition -- a tendency to take always the line of least resistance -- but it was a charming, appealing kind of frailty which most people -- the sterner sex, certainly -- would be very ready to condone.
The Hermit of Far End
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The film opens with him suffering from that most human frailty, a splitting headache.
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The frailty of the government's authority was underscored on the road north, when we were stopped at a roadblock by a group of men with assault rifles.
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And arguably done more to expose our intellectual frailty than almost anyone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness.
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When they attacked, Parks was invariably the fulcrum, prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield.
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This turns the play into a gripping tragedy and a moving tale of human frailty.
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Despite her age and increasing frailty she was out on the streets last year in her wheelchair, raising more than £50.
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Sitting down to the dressing-table, she looked long and earnestly at her face; the rest she had taken had plumped and coloured it again, but there was a something, a kind of frailty, a blue darkness under the eyes.
Married Life The True Romance
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Her plots depend on the occult power of art and the frailty of our ordinary healthy relation to the world.
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Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
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Yet, much of Drake's failure to attract a wide following stemmed from his own reclusiveness and psychological frailty, given that he had an almost pathological reluctance to perform live.
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Vanity and bravery rarely come this distilled in real people: our courage and frailty arrive in random combination.
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Whatever he is, we certainly do not expect such frailty and inability to act on one's own from a generation on whom the future of our country rests.
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Infatuated with my tiny son, I became fixated on his frailty: by what the world would do to him, if the world were given half a chance.
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Increasing frailty meant that she was more and more confined to bed.
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Some things about skiing - gravity, the inconvenient frailty of bone and sinew - never change.
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But didn't Greene really mean this thriller/romance to be yet another of his expositions on the emotional frailty of men buffeted by love and betrayal?
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But what shall I say, when I find my frailty so much increased, that I cannot, with the same intenseness of devotion I used to be blest with, apply myself to the throne of Grace, nor, of consequence, find my invocations answered by that delight and inward satisfaction, with which I used when the present near prospect was more remote?
Pamela
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It takes a special kind of person to excel in a job where reminders of human frailty are an everyday occurrence.
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He seemed to me to be really old, but even in death to be lacking in that common frailty I tended to view all the elderly as possessing.
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Back again in the cottage, and left to reflection, he saw one thing: that though his kiss of that aerial being had seemed the purest moment of his faultful life, as long as he nourished this unlicensed tenderness it was glaringly inconsistent for him to pursue the idea of becoming the soldier and servant of a religion in which sexual love was regarded as at its best a frailty, and at its worst damnation.
Jude the Obscure
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Historically the body and its frailty were much more difficult to escape than in our own age.
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As if to emphasise his credentials, he has been at it again this week, hauling himself into contention at the Masters with a familiar mixture of fearlessness and frailty.
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Perfect men, however, do not readily believe every talebearer, because they know that human frailty is prone to evil and is likely to appear in speech.
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This gradual loss has been tied to protein deficiency, lack of exercise, and increased frailty among the elderly.
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Evidence of his physical frailty combined with a seemingly unstoppable output of writing worked powerfully on friends and the public alike.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Ultimately, Sophia's frailty gives way to reason.
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But independently of the existing evidence, the possibility of such an act can be easily conceived by the human understanding, when we consider that everything is feasible to the omnipotence of the Creator; and nothing is more consentaneous to His infinite goodness and wisdom, than the blessed purpose of granting to human frailty an assistance calculated to lead the noblest of creatures to the attainment of the exalted end for which he was created.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
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It was the great Catholic age, when the sacred robe of the Church, spotted though it might be in places through human frailty, was still unrent, whole, and she herself was everywhere acknowledged in Europe as the Divinely appointed mother of men.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The most important safety concern is their frailty and consequent vulnerability to personal injury or death in a crash.
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human frailty
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We cannot evade Philosophy by immoderately pleading our human frailty and the sharpness of pain: Philosophy is merely constrained to have recourse to her unanswerable counterplea: ‘Living in necessity is bad: but at least there is no necessity that you should go on doing so.’
Evil is Good « So Many Books
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As Omara is helped onto the stage from the wings, her physical frailty is immediately evident.
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Pinot Noir can turn out wines with a frailty that belies their name, while the bland-looking Pinot Gris has the capacity for decidedly emphatic dry white wines that are big and generous in flavour and muscularity.
