Some of the battle scenes have a vigorous old-time grandeur, and though it takes some inevitable liberties with the source material, the film is more astute about the political and moral complexities of war than most recent combat pictures (Scott).
Vigorous old arguments were being settled about who could best whom, the prizefighter or the Olympic wrestler, the Kung Fu black belt or his judo counterpart.
He'd shown us how to make cuttings of the vigorous old roses thriving on neglect: no one had fertilized, pruned or sprayed these beauties for decades and we'd carried them back home in plastic baggies.
He'd shown us how to make cuttings of the vigorous old roses thriving on neglect: no one had fertilized, pruned or sprayed these beauties for decades and we'd carried them back home in plastic bags.
At that moment, Maitland cuts from the animated interview with young James to a current-day, videotaped, full-color interview with James now, a hale and vigorous older woman, continuing the story of her survival.
To wish for a more classically confident and vigorous old-school hero in lieu of Cera's self-doubting hero of our times is to wish away the times.
Managed-care companies in New York have come under fire for signing up vigorous older adults referred to them by social day care centers, customers whose health needs are relatively small.
Around every bend, it seemed, we found ourselves exchanging greetings with yet another vigorous older couple, each of them skiing or snowshoeing together so gracefully, as if dancing, that we had the impression they had been coming to these woods for years.
Similarly, Speechley and Tinetti [ 9] identified high injury rates from falls among "vigorous" older people.
Examples of such tailored fall preventive efforts could include: the focus on task-specific training during transfers among frail elderly people, medication review and fall risk education among elderly with a history of falls despite moderate physical function and efforts to enable continued outdoor mobility among less vigorous older people whose falls occur outdoors.
