Sentence examples for mental infirmity from inspiring English sources

David Storey's beautiful 1970 play about old age, mental infirmity and what Virgil called "the tears in mortal things" is one of the glories of modern drama.

Obsessing about the mental infirmity of his son and his own role in sealing it, Douglas stitches the lives of his nemeses together into a paranoid fiction.

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.

According to the North Carolina Department of Justice, the state also requires that the permit holder "not suffer from any physical or mental infirmity that prevents the safe handling of a handgun" and complete a firearms safety training course.

While some have taken this as a sign of some kind of mental infirmity, others attribute it to cunning genius that will make Jack a pet and spare him from the ultimate fate of his livestock brethren.

If Pinochet's lawyers and other enablers--the late Margaret Thatcher among them--hadn't lobbied for his release on the grounds of old age and mental infirmity, he would have actually been put on trial in Madrid.

Hidden because its symptoms often mimic or are masked by common physical and mental infirmities of aging.

The sport is a violent one and were these cases to ever reach a jury, those juries would see players with serious physical and mental infirmities versus what will be portrayed as the big bad NFL.

After visiting with hundreds of Puerto Rican citizens who have suffered physical and mental infirmities as a result of the bombing exercises, Sharpton and the other members of the "Vieques Four" led the protest at the U.S. Naval Base in Puerto Rico.

There was no consensus as to whether those either with severe systemic disease or institutionalised for mental infirmities should be transferred.

Nevertheless, the study indicates that, even in the absence of evidence, consensus can be reached on many issues (eg, the transfer of patients institutionalised for mental infirmities or those requiring inotropic support).