Sentence examples for common infirmity from inspiring English sources
This business of not remembering has an importance of its own, although insanity has replaced amnesia as the soap operas' most common infirmity.
In these congregate settings, for the most part, people are guaranteed only two things in common: age and infirmity.
He shares with them the security of knowing he will not die among strangers who have nothing in common but age and infirmity.
Hidden because its symptoms often mimic or are masked by common physical and mental infirmities of aging.
We await a common hope, a hope that our grandfathers and mothers, in their age and infirmity, will receive care and kindness that accords with the warning to honor father and mother that you own days be long upon the earth.
Framed in 1937 legislation but originally formulated in the Regency Act, after George III finally went mad in 1811, it allows for the lord chancellor – currently Michael Gove – the Speaker of the Commons, the lord chief justice and the master of the rolls to step in if "by reason of infirmity of mind or body the Sovereign is incapable for the time being of performing the royal functions".
FORGET about infirmity of purpose.
And Mailer's fecund "infirmity"?
But time and infirmity have altered at least one rule.
Today's dreams, such as growing new limbs, a comprehensive cure for cancer, Alzheimer's and other infirmities that come with old age, are lacking (as are hassle-free hospitals).We can measure progress when the sumptuous luxuries of yesterday's rich become the common necessities of today's poor.
