Its original purpose was simply to help an ailing man and, not incidentally, keep peace in the building.
He glanced behind the door to another corner of the room where an old, ailing man was hunched up.
The set is not only a fitting capstone to a long career but a fascinating portrait of the artist as an aging (and ailing) man.
If that is an act of an ailing man determined to make peace with his maker, it is a very odd way of going about it.
Prior is at home, humiliated by loneliness and his body's slow failure, when he begins to experience some strange things — especially for an ailing man.
But the images showed a clearly ailing man, almost unresponsive as the politicians beamed on all sides of him, prompting complaints from the family that they had exploited his fragile state to be seen in his company one more time.
The proliferation continues until the very last pages of the book, when Walcott, who is now an ailing man in his eighties, gives thanks for the balm of "the sea's recitation reentering my head".
Like most patients and their families, the ailing man's wife — who didn't want to be identified because of concern her husband's care could be compromised — simply wanted to figure out how much she really owed.
Louis); refused to allow Muslims to pray at a church that was once a mosque (Córdoba); and denied Catholic burial to an incurably ailing man who, after years of suffering on a respirator, asked to die (Rome).
But when Va Meng Lee, a Hmong shaman, began the healing process by looping a coiled thread around the patient's wrist, Mr. Lee's chief concern was summoning the ailing man's runaway soul.
