The judges may feel that PJ Harvey deserves to collect an award after being indisposed in 2001 and that the "first artist to win twice" would make a good story.
Even at less than his best, this bass-baritone can be impressive, as he proved last summer, mildly indisposed in a fine recital at the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne and Seline Hizli have all come down with illnesses, or as theatre staff informed patrons on a series of evenings last week, were "indisposed".
If you fell under a bus tomorrow, and were temporarily indisposed, how would your supervisor/industry sponsors/colleagues access your work?
Cole Porter's 1934 song, "Miss Otis Regrets," a wry blues tale about a society lady indisposed to answer questions, had its modern variation last week during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan.
Unable to make the third outing, Sachia's mentor, Dave Brennan — indisposed by one of the seven weddings he will attend this year — had arranged for three female volunteers to stand in for him.
Diplomats said Egyptian officials told American diplomats on Tuesday evening that Mr. Mubarak was not feeling well, and today, Secretary Powell said, the Egyptians reported that he was "indisposed".
Clinton, indisposed, was unable to point out that if she has pushed any single issue over the past three decades it has been, well, this one.
According to contemporary accounts late in February 1604 Thomas's cousin, Robert Catesby, invited him to his house in Lambeth, but Thomas was indisposed and could not attend.
His first break came when he was offered the post of assistant conductor at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 1957, and two years later Mozart came to the rescue when Davis took over from an indisposed Otto Klemperer in a concert performance of Don Giovanni at the Royal Festival Hall.
