Sentence examples for human infirmity from inspiring English sources

She makes her living in judgment of sadists and hoodlums, and is practical about human infirmity.

Thus bridges are built; harbours opened; ramparts raised; canals formed; fleets equipped; and armies disciplined every where, by the care of government, which, though composed of men subject to all human infirmities, becomes, by one of the finest and most subtle inventions imaginable, a composition, which is, in some measure, exempted from all these infirmities (Hume 1739 : 3.2.7).

Based on 50,000 years of human history, however, age and infirmity will sooner or later do for you.

The book is an excellent overview of human genetics because each genetic infirmity addressed by Avise occurs in fundamental structures and processes of inheritance and gene expression.

Whaddya think -- I told her my real name?' " It is this unflinching focus on human weakness -- our endless moral infirmities and compromises -- that perhaps explains why Yates's work never achieved great popularity in his lifetime, and indeed spent some years out of print.

Both dogs died at home, surrounded by their human families, liberated by euthanasia from the irreversible infirmities of old age (Harry's veterinary bills over the last three years ran to $25,000).

Inter-species transmission through environmental contamination with this novel bacterium, whose congenerics display male-bias and have links to infirmity in seals and terrestrial mammals (including humans), highlights the need to further evaluate disease risks posed by alien invasive mice to native species, on this and other islands.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" [ 6], which implies that most humans are unhealthy most of the time.

Clearly this Glaswegian recovering alcoholic is a bit feeble-minded, because it takes a bespoke brand of mental infirmity to confuse personal courage in advancing the human right to cause offence with a penchant for bullying the most vulnerable.

In this sense, the well-known WHO (1948/1998) definition of health is helpfully broad: 'a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' The WHO definition's aspirational and utopian aims are well suited to human rights.

Mortality -- a perennial preoccupation of the Bellovian hero -- seems particularly heightened in these stories, as friends' deaths and one's own infirmities underscore an apprehension of limits, a sense of "the appointed bounds" of human existence.