Sentence examples for as a debility from inspiring English sources

All my life I have thought of shyness as a debility, an inadequacy, an absence.

The first clinical description was provided by the English physician Michael Underwood in 1789, where he refers to polio as "a debility of the lower extremities".

Over the past years, Oliver revealed a part of his life that was once considered a debility and disorder — his sexual orientation.

The difficulty of graphic novels limits their potential audience, in contrast to the blissfully easeful, still all-conquering movies, but that is not a debility; rather, it gives them the opalescent sheen of avant-gardism.

"If you're going to be a member of the Jet Set and fly off to Katmandu for coffee with King Mahendra," wrote Horace Sutton in the Los Angeles Times, "you can count on contracting Jet Lag, a debility not unakin to a hangover.

It might be the first signal of a debility that will become entrenched - or it may be nothing.

Usually after 12 to 14 days you will see light at the end of the tunnel but some lingering withdrawals will last for up to six weeks, although these are more of a burden than a debility.

Think of it as an image of debility in a landscape that could not be more depraved.

Indeed, the curators make a little joke about our embarrassment when it comes to sex by juxtaposing a 19th-century French booklet praising "Les charmes de la masturbation" with an English publication, The Secret Companion, in which a gentleman is shown lying exhausted on a chaise longue in a section called "On Onanism as a cause of sexual debility".

In this analysis, percentage of gastrostomy tubes among home residents served as a proxy for generalized debility within each nursing home, and our findings suggest that more debilitated patients may be more predisposed to acquiring resistant organisms.

Yet this form of inadequacy does not elicit the same horror as sexual debility.