Sentence examples for infirmity with from inspiring English sources

And yet, as the E.R. visits added up over the years, I gradually curbed my initial feelings of panic and dread — partly because no one can live in a state of crisis forever but also because, by and large, my father bore his infirmity with insouciance.

So for at least another month or six weeks, she won't be up and about, although for someone used to striding about with a commanding gait in those tights and heels, she seems to be taking her tumble into infirmity with some measure of acceptance.

"So for the gentleman to argue that there is some constitutional infirmity with deferred action, is wrong.

(F, Ind, I, 70 74) Others noted general dislike of public symbols associating ageing with infirmity, with a group participant suggesting that 'there's a lot of people that take umbrage to the, the advert [priority seat sign] of "sit, like, in this seat, give it up", [the] walking sticks [sign] … people don't, a lot of elderly people, don't like it'.

The frail elderly are those with a disease or infirmity associated with advanced age, which is manifested by demonstrable mental, psychological, emotional or physical dysfunction to the extent that the person is incapable of adequately providing for his or her own health and personal care presently or in the near future [ 3, 4].

To be sure, I have been beset with some mechanical infirmities associated with advancing age.

But there also are a few ads from brands that have nothing to do with infirmities, the type with which AARP hopes to gain more traction, like Stouffer's Farmers Harvestt meals and the Bose Wave music system.

The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Or, as Hobbes put it in Human Nature: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly".

One of the most frequently quoted utterances on the subject is this definition in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651): The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Honoring generations of minor skirmishes with infirmity, pain, exhaustion, these jars and bottles and tins and tubes stand as tiny monuments to a legion of small battles won.