Two pivotal figures, for instance, are called Tom Edison Snr and Tom Edison Jnr, suggestive of something morally deficient or enfeebling in the nature of American genius and specifically in the creator of the American cinema.
The narrator of "In the Sanatorium" keeps his beloved institutionalised and enfeebled: "Half in love with easeful death / I cloud the mirror with your breath / Half in love with this disease / That keeps you close to me".
A resurgent Communist Party threatened to take down an enfeebled Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 Presidential election.
At polling stations, voters seemed to be reverting to patterns that had enfeebled Parliament in the past: ignoring issues while voting for friends, relatives or members of their tribe.
Its members, typically more right-wing and ornery than Britain's smooth and instinctively liberal leader, have not forgiven him for failing to secure a majority against an enfeebled Labour Party in 2010, forcing him into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
Local dailies and weeklies, increasingly enfeebled links in national chains, no longer see a need to keep employees on the payroll whose job is to see movies before everyone else does and report back knowledgeably on what they've seen.
Strayed's stepfather, whom she had loved, disengaged himself from the family and quickly found new love, unwilling even to take care of his late wife's beloved mare, who became so enfeebled that — in one of the book's most harrowing scenes — Strayed and her brother are forced to put her down.
That will not only hurt the finances of Western consumers, but may also make the jobs of their central bankers harder, by combining inflationary pressure with economic slowdown.The enfeebled dollar lately in sight of $1.50 to the euro would be weaker still without enormous purchases by central banks in emerging economies.
The world is full of failed and enfeebled states in which the main threats to freedom come from organised crime, ethnic conflict and militant sectarian groups.
