Mr. Holroyd is a courteous and slightly frail scholar, a man who has been ill with bowel cancer in recent years.
And though he was far from his peak (Mr. Nascimento has recently been ill and still seems slightly frail), he has a formidable style.
While for most, daily tooth brushing was still important enough to do, seeing a dentist was not (qB14) or required an amount of effort that could be better spent in other ways (qB17), a view that was even shared by some slightly frail people.
Like Dickens, Tomalin is fiercely energetic, and mordantly funny, but today she also has the slightly frail aspect of one who, having completed a vast undertaking (Dickens's life is so incredibly voluminous: his letters alone run to 12 volumes, each one some 800 pages long), now awaits the verdict of the various partisans who patrol this sacred ground.
They have both fully recovered, although Halliday looks slightly frail.
The views and experiences on oral health behaviors of most slightly frail (ZZP 1) and some of the moderately frail (ZZP 2 and 3) participants were very similar.
Mr. Kevorkian, 79, looked slightly frailer than he had when he was sent to prison eight years ago, convicted of second-degree murder in one death.
At their first interview together, Nosanchuk says that Lamb was a "slightly built, almost frail, quiet and detached 18-year-old... very boyish in appearance.
A kind of sea breeze of atmospheric moods blows across García Márquez's work — a saline mood of unexplained and understated pathos, moods of delicate solidarity and even complicity with everything frail and cracked, a slightly morbid mood.
Moreover, the risk of functional decline and morbidity was present even among the pre-frail, but with a slightly lower magnitude of effect.
