Sentence examples for frailty toward from inspiring English sources

There was nothing Gothic or grotesque about Lee's vision of the South, and her Methodism inclined more toward human perfectibility than frailty, toward sanctification more than sin.

Increased frailty toward the end of Jane's lengthycareer forced her to relax a lifelong prohibition on having anybody extraneous with her on a shoot, and I often got the call.

Could this campaign reduce health care costs by focusing older adults on muscle maintenance long before the pernicious downward spiral toward frailty begins?

When dividing FoF into three components, i.e. physiological, behavioural and cognitive, particularly the behavioural component of FoF of self-restricted avoidance of activities, may lead to a negative spiral toward frailty and increased dependency in these discharged patients [ 12].

This is taking respect for individual experience and generosity of spirit toward human frailty very far indeed.

The experts call these places naturally occurring retirement communities, or NORC's, and they are cropping up all across America as the nation's baby boomers creep toward the frailty and immobility of old age.

The third possibility is that inability to cope and ill health may have a common origin, such as a genetic predisposition toward general frailty.

The slightness of works such as "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust," and "Simple Men" was less a style choice than a moral plea for the plain and unadorned; those titles were a giveaway, and even Hartley's preferred actors, some of them returning from film to film, seemed to err, or bend, toward a slender frailty.

This analysis should be intended as a first step toward understanding whether different frailty measures capture as frail individuals with different functional status in each of the domains analyzed.

As a boy he had to wear leg braces and attended what he described as a "school for physical defectives" before moving to a mainstream secondary school; his frailty pushed him away from sports and toward academics.

In fact, investigators in Europe and Asia consider sarcopenia research a potentially useful initial step toward interventional studies of the frailty syndrome.