Sentence examples for infirmity to from inspiring English sources

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.

Bringing a whisper of infirmity to Lear at his most confident and a glow of grandeur to the character at his most abject, Mr. Plummer creates a portrait for the ages, drawn in self-consuming fire.

There is the pope's inability to say anything long, adequate and sincere about the scandal and what role he has played, including acceding to the petition of the Wisconsin priest who abused 200 deaf kids that he should not be defrocked in his infirmity, to spare his priestly "dignity".

Ms. Cruz's character provides the heart and pathos, but the narrative's drive resides in the story of a director fighting grief, depression and physical infirmity to finish a film that has remained uncompleted for 15 years — a comedy struggling to emerge from a tragedy.

It forces him to deal with his family, comprised of two lame brothers, one of them who larcenously uses the mother's infirmity to, more or less, gut all of her savings.

But it was the older stars, Mr. Atkins's own fragile generation, who showed up in the greatest numbers, struggling through infirmities to pay their tributes.

"There could be vulnerabilities and infirmities to take into account".

If any cardinal elector is by reason of infirmity confined to his room, the Infirmarii go to their rooms with ballot papers and a box.

"Women made unfit for childbearing, children deformed, men enfeebled, limbs crushed, whole generations wrecked, afflicted with disease and infirmity, purely to fill the purses of the bourgeoisie".

Given voters' memories of the infirmity, not to mention corruption, of the late François Mitterrand in his second term as president, Mr Chirac may well reckon that a five-year term would give him a better chance of victory against Mr Jospin, a youthful 62.Now that so many seem to agree on the change, how should it be made?

The workgroup agreed that the World Health Organization's definition of health, "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," applies to rural communities.