Sentence examples for apparently frail from inspiring English sources

At the age of 67, Pope Paul, though apparently frail, was a man of great charm and determination.

O'Brien is possessed of – as very many who meet her agree – a quietly electrifying charisma, apparently frail but indomitable.

She bristles when asked whether an apparently frail and elderly woman should have been allowed to give birth.

In Dickinson's image, hope is apparently frail and in need of protection but in reality, it is resilient and nourishes anyone who gives it shelter.

The film, which is based on a very popular Japanese television character, is the story of a blind, apparently frail masseur, played by Kitano, who also happens to be the deadliest swordsman around.

His apparently frail charges soon become slightly fractious and remarkably independent, and he literally spends day and night tending to their need for baked pasta, television, a sympathetic ear and a touch of affection.

With King Abdullah, 88, apparently in frail health, time is running out for the generation of princes who have ruled the kingdom since the death of its founder, King Abdulaziz al-Saud, in 1953.

In 2000 he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer and underwent drastic surgery that left him thereafter extremely slender and apparently physically frail; sadly the disease caught up with him in the end.

It was an image that 2014's Popular Problems did little to counteract – it was as acclaimed an album as he has ever released, further buoyed by interviews in which Cohen talked of honing its songs over hundreds of gigs – but here he was, two years on, apparently so frail that he was "confined to barracks" and using phrases such as "when I was healthy".

But Mr. Gates also characterized the North right now as "very frail," apparently referring to continuing reports of widespread hunger and the outcry from a failed effort early this year to revalue its nearly worthless currency, which wiped out what few savings North Koreans could scrape together.

He offers the threat produced by the apparently unthreatening; small, plump, frail, he nonetheless conjures up a strangely devious menace.