Sentence examples for her infirmity from inspiring English sources

Resting lightly on her cane (she recently had a stroke, which she will not acknowledge as such), with her fingernails painted tulip red, Violet, despite her infirmity — or, perhaps, because of it — flirts with a young man who has come to pay a call: Dr. Cukrowicz (Gale Harold), whose last name, he says, means "sugar" in Polish.

Yes, her infirmity is a metaphor for her crippled sensibilities.

Her infirmity wasn't obvious, as the couple earned the technical elements score, 40.94 points.

The queen's advancing age and her infirmities made the succession a crucial issue.

The Democratic Party in Queens ended Tuesday night exposed as a tottering old dame, her inability to push a loyal — if severely charisma-challenged — son into Congress testament to her infirmities.

Addie Gilson is the author of this extensive correspondnce--she wrote at least weekly to Cornelia--filled with thoughts on religion, her infirmities, and news of various family members and friends.

Ms. Gorintin's Eka, who lives for her son's occasional phone calls and letters, is a painfully stooped, hobbling old woman who despite her infirmities rules the household like a tough sergeant.

The situation may sound hokey, but this canny novel, which takes its knowing air from David L. Koral's translation from the French, evokes suffocating feelings of dread for its appealing protagonist, who has not let her infirmities dim her intelligence or her sardonic sense of humor.

The enervating effects of Hanna's illness and medication dominate the more personal interview segments, so that it isn't easy to get a sense of her life today apart from her infirmities and the occasional performance.

The long skirts also benefitted Kahlo in that they disguised her infirmities: her withered right leg, the result of a bout of polio she contracted at the age of six; and the effects of that devastating traffic accident, wherein her spine was broken in three places, her uterus pierced through, and her foot crushed.

By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating; the letter writer John Chamberlain recorded: "The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body".