"Though I am now retiring to a life of prayer, I will always be close to all of you, and I am sure all of you will be close to me, even though I remain hidden to the world," Benedict, 85, and increasingly frail, told the assembly of hundreds of priests, who had greeted him with a long standing ovation and some tears.
"I know you're supposed to be emotionally frail," Burtis told her, "but you don't want to sound vocally frail.
"A very frail gentleman told Joanna he had actually fought with her father in the war," he said.
Ten years ago, after a frail friend told him that he needed an intravenous feeding to get through the day, Mr. Fleischer, with the help of Maimonides Medical Center nearby, set up virtual clinics at the Bobov synagogue, five other locations and people's homes.
In 2004, at nearly eighty-six, in frail health, he told a gathering at his home in Johannesburg that he was "retiring from retirement".
The frail pensioner previously told how she was issued with a panic alarm with which she was to contact police if Lewthwaite ever made contact with her.
The Adamses had a lucky break on the morning of their eviction notice: when an officer observed Leon's frail condition, he told them that they could stay in the house while the forfeiture proceedings advanced.
"You are arriving this evening in Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, the heart of the Jewish world, which is also a holy site for Christianity and Islam," Mr. Weizman told the frail 79-year-old pope.
Doesn't matter, after watching Carson's animated shorts I feel like I'm ready to move to the desert, start a band, experiment liberally with psychedelics and come to some greater understanding about what it means to be a man (because I'm pretty frail and have been told I have "dainty" wrists).
Doesn't matter, after watching Carson's animated shorts I feel like I'm ready to move to the desert, start a band, experiment liberally with psychedelics, and come to some greater understanding about what it means to be a man (I'm pretty frail and have been told I have "dainty" wrists).
Frail elders, people tell her, are thin (although overweight people can also be frail), weak, slow, fragile-looking.
