Seeing that power develop through the appalling debility of her depression is a little storytelling miracle, one that makes Two Days, One Night far more accessible to the average viewer than most arthouse cinema.
Earlier in the trial, prosecutors had presented a letter that Mr. Marshall wrote in 2000 to a geriatrician who had diagnosed his mother's Alzheimer's disease, giving specific examples of how the debility of her mind manifested itself.
He finds, eventually, not only the immediate trigger for her current madness but also its more remote origins in the emotional disturbances of her childhood and adolescence and, more distant still, in the macho brutalities of her father and the mental debility of a dreamy, delusional grandfather.
She argues that women must work, even after becoming mothers not so much because, as Betty Friedan lyrically expounded, "if women do not put forth, finally, that effort to become all that they have it in them to become, they will forfeit their own humanity," as because a woman without a job or a career will be in dire economic straits if she loses her provider to death, desertion, or debility.
She argues that women must work, even after becoming mothers — not so much because, as Betty Friedan lyrically expounded, "if women do not put forth, finally, that effort to become all that they have it in them to become, they will forfeit their own humanity," as because a woman without a job or a career will be in dire economic straits if she loses her provider to death, desertion, or debility.
With a hint of the intellectual rigour that awaits new pupils at her school, St Mary's Calne in Wiltshire, Dr Wright parses the physique of her cover girl, to challenge, by means of her searching questions, all previous accounts of western debility.
He had heard about the woman's mysterious debility from the resident who admitted her to Highland Hospital in Rochester the night before.
It was not what I felt when my parents died: my father died a few days short of his 85th birthday and my mother a month short of her 91st, both after some years of increasing debility.
Poems on her mother's recent years can bring real news about debility and age, or slip into cliché -- "my mother / is a seer.
(Zero blood pressure is a serious debility).
