Sentence examples for as infirm from inspiring English sources

She has no children, and her siblings in other boroughs are as infirm as she is, or worse.

"You, and the rest of the town, will be relieved to know that, as infirm as I am, the wall has been repaired, and now all is well with the world".

But he has rarely looked quite as infirm.

Most people as infirm as John Paul would not dare make such strenuous trips.

Most actors, let alone those as infirm as Heston, would never have accepted that challenge.

He has sometimes been thought of as infirm in moral purpose, but this is to misjudge him.

As the infirm army captain living in spiteful and isolated wedlock in Strindberg's poisoned portrait of a marriage, Ian McKellen brings something frightening and majestic to the act of putting one wayward foot before the other.

Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid engaged in crinkly bonking sessions in Last Tango In Halifax on BBC1, while Peter Mullan tried to balance torturing people in warehouses with his descent into dementia as the infirm crime boss in The Fear on Channel 4. TV became fully obsessed with the previous century.

In another yard, "The men of an entire department were found to be incapables, as old, infirm boys, cripples, or idiots, and the department itself to have the appearance of an asylum for every rogue and vagabond that could not obtain a meal by any other means".

We are often caught up in a generational sandwich, dealing with both elderly and infirm parents as well as the demands of offspring who are not yet entirely off our hands.

To heal is to make whole, and wholeness can belong as much to the infirm as to the healthy.