Those with an intellectual disability or frailty deemed unable to consent or where the burden of participation was considered excessive were excluded.
Nothing is certain about such demonstration, Gassendi suggests, save the limits imposed upon it by the frailty of human intellectual capacities.
He had certain frailties, he had an intellectual distance about him, and under pressure he could sometimes panic.
As the newly released papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun demonstrated, Supreme Court justices are human beings with intellectual and personal strengths, foibles and frailties.
If Eric Alterman concludes that my admitted frailties and inadequacies, whether in intellectual or moral authority, disqualify me from reviewing his book, there is little I can do to persuade him otherwise.
Earlier in this century, physicists pursued their discoveries while still inside a cocoon of ostensibly pure, objective science, above human frailty, beyond petty politics, motivated by curiosity and intellectual adventure alone.
Brehmer and Weber (2010) created a frailty measure, the Vienna Frailty Questionnaire for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities – Revised (VFQ-ID-R) [ 17, 18], which captures changes in 34 symptoms across four domains (physical, psychological, cognitive, and social).
Indira Varma's excellent Nadia has an intellectual and physical poise that buckles as she acknowledges her frailties and the world's imperfections.
But his intellectual sustenance seems to come from his examinations of the mores and frailties of a culture in which he is forever a foreigner.
Ms. Miller's fourth film, adapted from her novel of the same name, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" stars Robin Wright Penn, an actress not known for playing demure types, as Pippa, the buttoned-up wife and caretaker of Herb Alan Arkinn), a loudmouth intellectual pushing 80, who lives large and is not about to calm down, despite his frailty.
Just a wisp of an idea, an amp of once-human energy joined with others in what becomes a common, comfortable harbor, freed from human frailties and failures, defined in simple and otherworldly terms that demand no intellectual interpretations, render no judgments, fueled by simple, undemanding emotions.
