Sagan looked infirm for her age--she walked with a cane--but she spoke energetically, and her yellowish hair was cut short, with long bangs.
Two old friends -- Quinn, a Christian, and Sophie, a Jew -- are in the middle of a lunch date when Sophie says to Quinn, "Don't take this personally, but how can you honestly believe that Jesus walked on water, turned water into wine and made the infirm walk?" "Well, look at it this way," says Quinn. "Maybe there were rocks beneath the water's surface, and he crossed over them.
From his infirm voice, we infer he's looking back on the events from old age and thus endowing them with special significance, though this is not spelled out.
In John McCain, some see a rigid, infirm-looking continuation of the old Republican plank, waving a tattered flag.
He also planned to donate €500,000 each to three organizations that look after infirm journalists.
But he has rarely looked quite as infirm.
In California home-care workers, who look after the infirm in their own houses, have demonstrated against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut their pay to the state minimum wage of $8 per hour.
He says the sex robot developed from his firm's line of healthcare robots, which were designed to look after elderly or infirm patients.
"She looks elderly, she might be slightly infirm, she might be smartly dressed, or she might not … but you don't actually think of the life that went on".
While you're at it, if you help older, infirm or distracted friends or relatives with their finances, look into their overdraft coverage as well.
In 2010 the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reckoned Japanese nursing homes and hospitals needed 2m professional carers to look after the country's 30m elderly and infirm, but managed to attract only 1.3m.
