Sentence examples for sick man's from inspiring English sources

What hits against this chest unless it's a sick man's hand from some midlevel band?

It's burning me up Like a sick man's dream of getting well Or a mother stricken by the death of her only son Or a refugee watching a gathering of friends.

No doubt his vitalism was a sick man's dream of health, and the sickness sometimes corrupts the dream with misanthropy, misogyny, and self-despair.

He knew the sick man's history, but the sight and sound and smell were overwhelming anyway.

Nine years after the sick man's admission, a stranger came knocking at his door.

Is it bluff, a trick, or a sick man's willingness to gamble his people's future against his last days of glory?

While France has often been branded Europe's "sick man" and Greece's problems are well known, Finland's economy is still 5pc smaller than before the financial crisis.

You read it in the Mail, hear it in the pubs and see it in the soundbites that stick, from Thatcher's "sick man of Europe" to Cameron's "broken Britain".

With the National Gallery cruising along smoothly, Tate Britain and Tate Modern drawing big crowds, and the Victoria and Albert Museum once again in vogue, the British Museum has stood out of late as the "sick man" of London's great museums.

This city of 67,000 people about 100 miles north of Moscow is a textbook example of how Russia, the developed world's sick man, could heal itself.

Using exchange-traded funds for the sake of comparing returns among securities in which you can actually invest, you'll see that the domestic U.S. market has been the world's sick man.