He oversaw Ali's poignant appearance at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where the former boxer, now frail and faltering, lit the Olympic flame.
And in the frail December light there were glimpses of subtle beauty: the dark bare Japanese-print branches looped and netted, snowflakes glittering like jewels in the windy air and in the distance the gray towers of Manhattan brooding like chessmen.
In the photographs I could find, he looks ill and frail, but lit with an intense inner life.
Mr. Masur has looked frail and unsteady at public appearances in the last few years, so it was a happy surprise to find him turning 80 and in the process looking bright, well fed and light on his feet.
Even the lightest cloth here isn't frail, and the heavier ones have real depth.
The analogy to Oz is hardly strained in light of Eden's moving encounter with the frail and ailing master.
In light of the absence of any Fried criteria in the non-frail group, we therefore considered that the frail and non-frail study participants were distinctive enough to test our hypothesis.
Some were poor, some frail and old.
Some are frail and nearly bedridden.
