Sentence examples for frail flesh from inspiring English sources

Many of the oldest saints are legends that lasted, frail flesh made into sturdy word.

Training for a marathon is the loneliest experience in all of sports, and long-distance runners are existential beings, compounded of stamina and frail flesh.

Arriving at a gala, the countess evidently viewed herself not as mere frail flesh, pinched inside an unforgiving corset, but as a monument destined to live on in the minds of her beholders.

God forbid that Cameron should ever be in a position to affix the signboard outside Number 10, advertising his services as fixer of broken societies; for who knows what coercive violence this will mean for poor frail flesh and blood.

That was not true, however, of Charlie Chaplin, whom we saw on film last night, though not for long; nor of Muhammad Ali, whom we saw in the flesh, though some will ask whether such frail flesh should be thus exposed.

The frail, moist flesh, mutilated in war, corseted and shamed in peacetime, and subject, in the long view, to swift decay, gives this intricately composed narrative its mournful, surging life.

He's the definition of a local legend, a mysterious, indefinable individual who's spent the majority of his life walking around the North adorned in a robe and sandals, his delicate, frail frame looking like a hastily constructed scarecrow made flesh.

If, like me, you find the flesh is frail, make preparations for three-and-a-half hours (including interval) of intense concentration on hard seats and a temperature that falls with the sun.

Those whose flesh is less frail might be keener.

A girl's murdered body autopsied on a steel table, a dying woman's lust for a younger woman's beauty, a lonesome divorcé appreciative to tears for the unexpected intercourse with his children's sitter: in this collection Lynch has written a masterly homage to the flesh, to the frail mortality we spend our lives abhorring and to the sexual union capable of lifting us above doctrinal despair.

Michelangelo makes the flesh of Christ's frail body so real and tender in death it is heartbreaking.