Sentence examples for marks of weakness from inspiring English sources
William Blake in the Romantic age walked the streets of London and in every passing face discerned "marks of weakness, marks of woe".
from Songs of Experience I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
What does it mean, as a person moves through life, to be endlessly corrupted by "marks of weakness, marks of woe" — undone by "the mind-forg'd manacles" of institutions?
"London," by William Blake (1794) I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In his poem "London", William Blake sees indistinctly because he walks the street by night; but he sees enough to make out the "marks of weakness, marks of woe" on everyone's faces ("crude signatures of an oppressive, rapaciously commercial society", Beaumont says), and his hearing is acute enough to catch "the youthful Harlot's curse" blasting the new-born and "the Marriage hearse".
"London" was recorded by Axelrod as a tone poem to reflect Blake's opening stanza about the spiritual climate of London at the onset of the Industrial Revolution: "I wander thro' each charted'd street / Near where the chart'd Thames does flow / And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe".
This is a mark of weakness, not just in institutions, but in the political convictions of the people themselves.
When a person has plumbed the darkest depths and bounced back, it's not a mark of weakness but of exceptional strength.
So it all seems well and as if it could all run smoothly for George but inevitably, fairly soon there are hiccups, which propel him into this series". "George has definitely grown up, in the sense that he feels like he may be beyond scraps like the ones he had in series one and two, letting himself fall into them would be the mark of weakness now.
She now requires a stick for walking, but her symptoms have remained generally stable during adult life, though she experiences marked exacerbation of weakness during viral illness.
