Mladic, 70, cuts a far more feeble figure than the stocky, bluff and ruddy-faced former Yugoslav artillery officer who gained notoriety during the war.
Though Mr. Bloomberg chose Ms. Black for her management acumen, the education officials said she had become a feeble figure within the department, frequently sitting silently in high-level meetings and deferring to lower-level aides.
The ghostly old man is Anna's stepfather, and he also overlaps with another character: Jude's father, a monstrous, now-feeble figure who lies near death at Jude's childhood home in Louisiana.
Three consecutive months of feeble jobs figures suggest America's recovery may be in trouble (see article).
ALMOST half a decade after the onset of the rich world's credit bust, depressing evidence of its after-effects is visible in everything from feeble output figures to swollen jobless rolls.
Years of violent, sexual workouts would have made his body lean and hard, so that he would tower over my feeble, bedridden figure while exclaiming, for the sake of his chuckling buddies, "check out this fucking egghead".
"Oh such a piteous, good, feeble, heroic little figure," the satirist Max Beerbohm remarked at George's coronation in 1911.
And this judgment goes well beyond the short-run worries about a feeble recovery sparked by recent figures showing that euro-wide growth in the third quarter was a miserable 0.1%.
Euro-zone purchasing managers indexes showed that private sector companies expanded at a slightly slower pace in June, but beneath the main figures there was feeble demand for goods and services from consumers in Germany, which has the bloc's biggest economy.
It was a means of boldness for a people who seemed so innately feeble otherwise, infinitely redefining and assessing, figuring out who they wanted to be.
