Obviously, from my distant pulpit as a human whose freshers week was now a literal decade ago, the weight of age decaying my body down to dust, my enthusiasm for things evaporated like dirty water in the bottom of a hot well, I view this news with cynicism and contempt.
This faculty, however, has another effect: it causes humans to be aware that they are subject to a process that brings change, aging, decay, and ultimately death to all living things.
This was seen as the biggest weakness in case of discarded products, as the likelihood of change in aesthetical value of a product due to change in time, trends in fashion, cultural differences, ageing, decay, etc. is highly probable.
Uncle Malvolio, a godfather sort in a wheelchair, rages about his aging, decaying body.
Here you'll find series of pictures of human aging, decaying Navajo wall drawings, abandoned buildings, heat-and light-damaged desert detritus and even abrupt earthquake wreckage.
Trump's body — which, like all of ours, is condemned to suffer the indignities of misshapen parts, as well as aging, decaying, and, eventually, dying — is perhaps the thing that is most tangibly at odds with the image he wishes to project.
As cheeses age and decay they develop flavour and character, mould and even personalities.
Not long afterward, his "Woman in a White Shirt" (1956-57) presenteDeborah Mitfordrd as a frightening vision of age and decay.
The structures that blossom in the air age quickly, decay and collapse, while newer, bigger edifices heave out of the earth to replace them.
Age and decay will find you eventually and you'd all be well advised to leave that Faustian pact with a cosmetic surgeon unsigned.
