Sentence examples for The debility from inspiring English sources
noun
A state of physical or mental weakness.
The debility that afflicted the Conservatives in the mid 90s now grips the Labour government.
It's not only the debility of age.
Though they don't die of the disease, the debility and cost are enormous.
Kaidanov intensified the debility of the e6 square by advancing with 10 d5, threatening 11 Nd4 and 12 Ne6.
By 1849, the newly formed American Medical Association was describing black cohosh as useful for "the debility of females attendant upon uterine disorder".
Invariably, the cause of the trouble, the start of the debility, is traced back to childhood — to a particular, fateful, universal experience called the Oedipus complex.
Felix Silverstone is, without question, up against the debilities of his years.
Lobo Antunes remains obsessively local, worrying over the inherited ailments of Portuguese history and the debilities of its culture.
So when the debilities of old age finally beset him, with his cat's brief span dooming us to a painfully early parting, the family debate about whether to end his life prematurely, or grant him the last full measure of sovereignty by allowing him to die in his own time, was as agonizing as anything we have known.
The book seems a kind of affirmative sequel to the author's previous landmark volume, The Noonday Demon, published in 2001, which explored with poetic rigour the debilities of depression, in particular his own, into which he had fallen following the death of his mother, an act of planned suicide following a terminal cancer diagnosis.
He hoped it would help them understand the debilities he could not hide: the once-booming voice made raspy by chemotherapy and other medicines, and the weakness and pain that forced him to lecture sitting down.
