There has been a frailty to many of the big names in this post-Olympic year.
She gives a funny portrayal of a narcissistic actress, who uses deceptive frailty to get what she wants.
But this consummate artist used his own vocal frailty to match the psychological journey of the despot he was playing.
"I can't find a story that fits," says [protagonist] Sal plaintively, trying to explain his psychological frailty to his irrepressibly cheerful brother.
"I can't find a story that fits," says Sal plaintively, trying to explain his psychological frailty to his irrepressibly cheerful brother.
Frailty researchers like Dr. Jeremy Walston, at Johns Hopkins, and others are investigating the biological markers of frailty to develop treatments and interventions that could help prevent it.
The 10th is a vexed work: entirely apart from its subject matter -- Mahler's meditations on everything from human frailty to his marital problems -- it raises practical and philosophical questions about how incomplete works by great composers should be treated.
Dalrymple's linework, tremulous and twitchy, and Paul Hornschemeier's muted colors don't look much like any other superhero comics; there's a sense of human frailty to their characters that inverts the muscles-and-action tradition.
Dr. Lewis A. Lipsitz, chief of gerontology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, likens the changing view of frailty to the change in the way Alzheimer's disease was perceived.
Coupled with Mr. Wilson's own emotional frailty, to say nothing of his mounting drug use and deepening tension with the band's record company, Mr. Love's resistance to "Smile" spelled its doom, and the album was never officially released.
Far from being honored, Mr. Mandela's relatives were furious over the broadcast, saying party leaders had invaded his privacy and exploited his frailty to reap the political benefits of being seen in his hallowed company at least one more time.
