Sentence examples for this infirmity from inspiring English sources

He demands to know who told the salesman that he suffered from this infirmity.

This infirmity of the flesh may be a signature of his Falstaff.

This infirmity almost certainly explains his interest in brothels, the next theme in the exhibition.

Roger Hill is inclined to believe that there is some sort of psychic slant to this infirmity, that Welles sprains his ankle because he is worried or doubtful about something.

Importantly, Nebraska's own statutory scheme underscores this constitutional infirmity.

Even unhappy passions such as longing, pain, guilt, fear and mourning, have enormous value for us, for "so long as we wear the infirmity of this life, we are rather worse men than better if we have none of these emotions at all" (City of God 14. 9).

"Because constitutional history, precedent, and practice reveal the infirmity of [the] appellants' claim, this Court need not resolve whether, as Texas now argues, States may draw districts to equalize voter eligible population rather than total population," Ginsburg concluded.

For public officials to capitalise on this fear of infirmity is both sinister and cruel.

"Even now, in this time of infirmity, Your Eminence continues to teach us all by example," Archbishop Montalvo said.

George: For me it is this notion of infirmity — whether it is stated directly or implied.

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.