Photographs of Ms Erwiana looking emaciated and sickly in an Indonesian hospital last year caused outrage in her home country, while the case also triggered protests by migrant workers in Hong Kong.
Frail and sickly in his youth, he was educated by a Buddhist monk and at the age of 20 was apparently miraculously cured.
Yet there is surely something a little odd and sickly in the taste for the characteristic Presley role, as exemplified again in King Creole.
"I am grown wretchedly thin," admits a former beauty in "Northanger Abbey" while Miss de Bourgh is repeatedly described as "thin" and "sickly" in "Pride and Prejudice". It was Austen's rebuttal to a body fad sweeping the fashionable circles of her day, the Regency equivalent of thinspiration, which glorified the same sickly-thin shapes strutting across many runways and magazines today.
A warm skin tone will look better in the yellow light and appear gray and sickly in the white light.
Lank and pale, Mr. Merhar is not the sweaty, grizzled type you might expect after years in expat purgatory; he looks at once well preserved and sickly, like a beach house shut-in.
In the 13 issues that followed its 1993 debut, many of them now collected in "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth" (Pantheon), Mr. Ware painted an excruciatingly desolate yet wonderfully nuanced portrait of loneliness through Jimmy Corrigan, a friendless, inarticulate and sickly man in his 30's with a smothering mother, a father who abandoned him as a child, and a rich fantasy life.
It happened to be a sharp and sickly winter in Sardinia, insomuch that the general was forced to lay an imposition upon several towns to supply the soldiers with necessary clothes.
They turn out to be your standard, heavily-bearded crash victims: the angry guy, the sensitive guy, the quiet guy, the sickly guy, and the brawny, cool-in-a-crisis guy (Neeson).
Eventually, Medicare payments will be adjusted to reflect the balance of healthy and sickly members in each health plan.
