Sentence examples for a rather frail from inspiring English sources

The diplomats' visit perhaps brought home to the government that if it were to be seen unjustly imprisoning a rather frail 69-year-old lady, it might in effect be helping Mrs Zia pose as an emblem of democratic virtue.

Critic James Agee described the character of Tommy Udo thus: "A rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs.

Some presenters, on the other hand, were outstanding, notably the impossibly beautiful Angelina Jolie, who graciously steered a rather frail looking Sidney Poitier through his portion of the introduction.

"I was rather frail for a while".

Though at 84 the conductor Colin Davis seemed rather frail, he brought a lifetime of involvement with Sibelius to bear in a Sibelius program with the London Symphony Orchestra during its visit to Avery Fisher Hall in October.

As a broad, and a "petite" one at that (five-foot-two, rather frail, lungs weakened by cigarettes, and with little-to-no upper-body strength), it is my cross to bear.

He was elderly and rather frail, but had an air of ruling-class authority.

Naipaul's wife, Pat, was a pretty petite woman in her 30s who seemed rather frail.

Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, of the Society of Jesus, was, on the morning of the explosion, in rather frail condition.

But beyond the fancier bits of London, the national market still looks rather frail.

She is actually rather frail, though that is well disguised by her erect posture and almost unlined complexion.