Oxenberg's grandmother, Mae Joffe (1900-1979), called Grandma throughout the film, was robust and vigorous in earlier days (as seen in home movies and family photographs), but when Oxenberg films her she's frail and moves with difficulty.
Ailments have transformed her, she said, from a fit mail carrier who walked a 13-mile route into a survivor of multiple illnesses who takes 22 medications and now moves with difficulty on stiff legs.
He was obese and moved with difficulty.
In real life, Korsheed struggles with the effects of childhood polio, moving with difficulty around the apartment he shares with his disabled mother.
She leans forward, as if she were moving with difficulty.
Williams appeared to move with difficulty during her 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 loss on the clay at the Foro Italico in Rome.
She has given Juliet a few infirmities – a dodgy hip, troubled breathing – to remind herself to play older, but this raises new problems: "You have to be moving with difficulty, but at the same time you have to be going quite fast, otherwise everybody's going to be here until midnight".
Down the street of the village, across the south meadows, up Bars' long hill and over the plain, they took their way, marching but slowly, for the heavy laden teams moved with difficulty over the rough road.
Verb-wise, though, to founder is to sink or fail completely and to flounder is to struggle or move with difficulty.
