| 单词 | frail |
| 例句 | Charlie, dressed in a sweatshirt and khaki work pants, is a frail, nervous man with rheumy eyes and a growth of white stubble across his chin. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet under the frail cage of those shattered ribs, his chest rose and fell with each shallow breath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A wizened, frail- looking wizard, bald except for a few wisps of white hair, was reading a letter by candlelight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Cooter’s grandma was near ’bout fifty years old and frail and ailing and Mrs. Bixby was afeared of leaving her for even a minute. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But though Muthu’s body looked less frail than before, his eyes hadn’t regained their twinkle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The ceiling of the Great Hall was serenely blue and streaked with frail, wispy clouds, just like the squares of sky visible through the high mullioned windows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I felt her knees give out, and when I grabbed her under the arms to hold her up I could feel how frail and slivery thin she really was. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Even over the river’s roar, his frail words make my heart sag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "He forbade it. He did not want his enemies to know that he was dying. With the realm so troubled, he feared that if the Lannisters suspected how frail he was . . ." ". . . they might attack?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sparrows were so frail, helpless, and innocent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Boromir bowed his head as the boats whirled by, frail and fleeting as little leaves, under the enduring shadow of the sentinels of Númenor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Shin’s brother looked gaunt and frail as guards tied him to the wooden post. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Behind them, an enormous mother, in a brown silk dress, and the father, a rather frail little man I know by sight. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I felt silly being scared of a frail old woman, but the way her voice had changed, the way she’d grabbed Nico ... The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He was emotional and frail, and he craved attention—his only effective defense was his skill in manipulation and misdirection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Grandmother lay in bed, looking gaunt and frail, her white hair spread around her face like a basilisk’s crown. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s enough to see the frail line of his calf, bare old bone, to want to lean in a little. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Mr. Loomis; his shoulders were slumped and he looked very tired and frail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Her eyes were closed, though just barely, the lids frail and milky and almost transparent in the dim light. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you’re sorry. For right now, that is. For this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. I’m unimpressed—No no! Be still!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there are no mirrors, we look at each other’s faces to see just how frail and sick we are starting to look. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She had been frail, cast off, sick, and yet she had fought up to the very end for something. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The frail blooms trembled on their thin stalks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She was super old, well into her nineties, stooped and frail, completely blind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And then I saw him as the adult who had drifted away, thin and frail, his face bony from the chemotherapy treatments. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Carlton was a frail man in his late eighties, with skin so pale it looked almost translucent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Miss Avocet had seemed so indomitable then, but now she looked frail and weak. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I went down first, with the Lady behind me, her frail hand on my shoulder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Jorge had one blind askew eye and poor vision in the other, he was bald, limping noticeably, haggard and frail and crotchety. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy was playing a harmonica, frail and lovely sound. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Volkheimer has taken to switching on his field light and focusing its frail beam into the far corner, where eight or nine white plaster heads stand on two shelves, several toppled onto their sides. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The supreme commander appeared so frail that Tyrion was afraid laughing might kill him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked frail and sad, but he reached down and touched the mummy’s forehead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Only his chest rose up, then fell down, with each frail breath. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Clasping her frail, veined hands in her lap, Vivian gazes out the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A girl who knew Robert as a child in New York City described him as “very frail, very pink-cheeked, very shy, and very brilliant.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandma might look skinny and frail, but I know her grip is strong. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dalton’s frail, waxen hand went up timidly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His hair was almost completely gray, which made him seem frail and vulnerable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This time, however, he was judged too frail for doctors to apply electric currents to his brain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One of the legionnaires lifts Nan by her neck and slams her frail body against a wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Sister Mary Suzanne was about forty then, a frail, gentle woman from Japan who could speak no English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn’t buy a frail of dates, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The envelope was so yellowed and frail that at first I was afraid to touch it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Red was so frail that she feared his life was still in danger. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I would not say that. But I think more force than an elderly woman could display, and Princess Dragomiroff’s physique is particularly frail.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Madeline pulls a quilt from the back of the chair and wraps it around her frail frame. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Molly is struck by how frail she is, how narrow her silhouette. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He looked shrunken, both smaller and frailer than he had been when they burst in on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Back long before humans,’ he said, and his voice was soft and cracked and frail. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he saw her as a frail woman content to do tiny things; to grow and cultivate small life that would not hurt her if it died: rhododendron, goldfish, dahlias, geraniums, imperial tulips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Her shoes seemed frail, and Celaena took a few steps back, ignoring the guards at the door as she lifted her feet high and set them down to test the strength of the shoes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was frail and soft, and it barely carried as the warriors’ whooping grew. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z DRACO: We were capable of having children but Astoria was frail. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Or my mother, who is so frail, she can barely care for herself? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When she returned to us in January, Grandma was even frailer, and she needed to be on oxygen all the time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And then Wormtail lowered the creature into the cauldron; there was a hiss, and it vanished below the surface; Harry heard its frail body hit the bottom with a soft thud. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Shrubbery loses its bright snow headgear and stands bare and frail, too undernourished to hide the drains it was intended to hide. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The door to Mrs. Caruthers’s room swung open as Ophie approached, the seemingly frail old woman standing on the other side like an ill omen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A frail, thin woman and the children cringed against the wall when we entered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She's stripped down to her dressing gown, which makes her seem even more frail. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She looked frail to him, and penetrable everyplace except at one foot, the left, where her man’s work shoe remained. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The figure in the wheelchair was frail and contorted, and it was the voice more than anything that helped me recognise her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched them place all extra baggage, all blankets, all kitbags, and post one lone guard—a frail young man who looked genuinely ill, who sagged against the fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I contended in my mind against the ignorant writers who condemned women as frail and lacking in virtue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The veins had been thick and knotted under the thin, frail skin; the fingers were thickened at the joints. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then Father Aristide, looking small and frail in his white cassock, walked to the pulpit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to cough, a deep, rasping cough that shook his frail body terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The frail light of the moon threw metallic rays across their bodies, and Jean de Satigny shivered at the sight of Blanca, who at that moment seemed to him the image of perfection. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was frail and sickly from the first, and childbirth only left her weaker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A frail slush forming over the dark surface of the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Whenever he found someone extremely frail—a “Muselman” was what we called those inmates—he would write down his number: good for the crematorium. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My father began to cough again, the deep, dry, racking cough that shook his frail body and frightened me terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad’s frail strength could be seen to be waning. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But within the frail, birdlike body of Mrs. Rappaport was the spirit of a dragon capable of tackling the heavens and earth. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From where I sit on the field, he’s a bizarre specter, so frail and ashen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Felicia, Mr. Alacran’s wife, was a frail woman with long, nervous fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Remaining was a six-month-old baby, who was now brought to the Trepids’ room by their assistant, Morgan, a frail elderly woman. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Everybody ran in a sluggish stampede, shooting tortured, horrified glances back, filling 359 the deep, shadowy, rustling woods with their frail gasps and cries. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So thin, so frail and thin, the veils were become that still warded it off. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Nan, with her frail body and burning eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Old Tallow was sitting by the fire, cleaning and oiling each part of her ancient, frail gun. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The long, frail wings trembled as she squeezed through, and then the joy of flight took over the creature, and it plunged into the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But my darling was as frail as a bird. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She looked frail and weak, tired, one of the few times in my life I’d ever seen her look that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But before I do, I wonder at how frail and inconsequential my mother has become. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was Mrs. Dalton, sitting quietly, her frail, waxen hands folded in her lap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But he was also the frailest, and when colds or flu or virus infections came around he was the first to catch them and the slowest to recover. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One hand hung over the edge of the mattress, a pale frail fleshless thing, but warm when she touched it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was frail and wrinkly, probably no more than a few weeks old. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His body was frail, which made his head seem large and gave him an ethereal look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He knew it had happened, because he heard slight movements around him that suggested frail bodies shifting their footing on the earthy, twig-strewn ground that marked the outer edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As though—as though she’d aged fifty years in eight weeks—gaunt, gray, frail. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She wore a narrow sleeveless dress, salmon-colored, which exposed a pair of pretty collarbones and the sweet frail vertebrae at the base of her neck—lovely kneecaps, lovely ankles, lovely bare, strong-muscled legs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His health was poor, his body small and frail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Once there, he became so feeble and frail that he could barely leave the villa they had rented. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He took her small pink hand in his own frail spotted one and gave it a gentle squeeze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her mother’s frail voice echoed through the cavern. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even with her cane, Aunt Rose always seemed fierce and unbowed, and seeing her like this, small and frail, reminded Ophie that her aunt was a very old woman, maybe even older than Mrs. Caruthers. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For such a frail old lady, Miss Wren was giving Miss Peregrine a pretty good clobbering. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The frail white nymph, from whom water cascaded far more successfully than it did from the beefy Triton, carefully placed the pieces by the vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was talking about the littlest of the lambs, still small and frail while the others had grown to be sturdy young sheep, full of play. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Harry wondered whether constant disappearances and reappearances had somehow diminished his substance, or whether this frail build was ideal for anyone wishing to vanish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Then he walks me the whole way there, like I’m a frail, stumbling great-grandmother. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z In the last days of Bobby’s life he was becoming more frail and could hardly speak, nor could he keep down any food. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Qartheen lined the streets and watched from delicate balconies that looked too frail to support their weight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He smiled at Yossarian wanly, looking frail and exceptionally young and bashful in the bulky dungeon of his earphones, hat, throat mike, flak suit and parachute. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was fevered always now, but he forced his frail shell on, because this had to be the finest since Excalibur. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “And post your message to your parents,” I said, feeling a frail wave of happiness cut through me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In her mind’s eye, Sefia saw herself hunched over the book, growing frail and nearsighted as the years piled up around her and the lights of her life burned low. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Some parking ticket confetti, caught in a frail wind puff, tumbled across the dirt and settled around the sheriff s boots, which were on the wrong feet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And here she was, right in front of us, so human and frail. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As the flapping grew louder, the sun’s golden glow tarnished into the frail sheen of moonlight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She felt naked as she began to wrap it around herself, like a bird plucked of its feathers—all goosebumpy skin and trembling bones and frail, sputtering heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She had operated a candy store until she got sick, after which she mostly slept or sat by the window, looking frail and weak. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She had lost a lot of weight, the dress hung in loose folds on her frail body, her eyes were dead. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still too frail and too malnourished to have gone through puberty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In fact, Hevelius lived for another nine years, so he cannot have been that frail when Halley saw him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Her personality was too big and mercurial to be contained in a frail human body. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Huddled beneath her ermine mantle and surrounded by her ladies, serving girls, and knights, the southron queen seemed a frail, pale, shrunken thing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail by the death that grew within him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “That’s lush. Three cheeses. Put some hair on that frail little chest of yours!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Molly touches Vivian’s shoulder, frail and bony under her thin silk cardigan. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But even frail and dying this way, he made her angry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Fidelito was skinny and frail in spite of his tough spirit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was Papa, looking older and more frail. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Arabella stands at Charlotte's side, veiled, shoulders slumped, holding and stroking her frail hand. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Aged and frail, the maester shared his chambers with two of the younger stewards, who tended to his needs and helped him in his duties. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A frail column of smoke was rising from the roof of one of the sheds, and I saw a horse tied to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His frail body shook violently, and he threw up, emptying his stomach of the sploosh. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She pushes me down into a chair, not so frail after all, and squeezes a noisy, farty tube of goo on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Jonas squeezed cleansing lotion onto the clean sponge at the edge of the tub and began to wash her frail body. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It was wearing a shredded rubakha, dingy and rusty and matted to the thing’s body with some kind of metallic bands like frail armor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The past week or so, Percy had imagined a lot of scathing things he might say to Nico when they met again, but the guy looked so frail and sad, Percy couldn’t muster much anger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Fadi glanced back and saw his father push a wad of cash toward the frail white-haired taxi driver, who shook his head. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He sighed, reached forward, and placed the side of his frail hand aside my face. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z For the first time ever, she looks frail. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In his youth, Cressen had walked briskly, but he was not far from his eightieth name day now, and his legs were frail and un-steady. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Those blows—the ones delivered with great force penetrating the muscle—never, never could anyone with so frail a physique inflict them.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that my mom was a human being, frail and confused, but I’d always thought she was just a little less confused than everyone else. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Now all the rest, their bushels ground, were sleeping; one only, frail and slow, kept at it still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice sounds frail, and that is never, ever a word I think of to describe Chelsea. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Grandfather had placed her head on a bed pillow and wrapped her frail body in blankets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It would have been a rare man who would want so frail and impoverished a woman for a wife. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I saw only that she was a very young girl, frail beyond most, deserted by her husband and doing her best to feed herself and her children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Bravely he held up a frail paw at the oncoming fox. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Each time, El Patron looked more frail and his mind seemed less in order. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s body felt so old, so frail, yet so fatally single-purposed that for the first time Jason saw clear and unshadowed the disaster toward which he rushed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The wandmaker still looked exceptionally frail, and he clung to Bill’s arm as the latter supported him, carrying a large suitcase. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was hard now to stir, to face this mage-lad, this frail enemy, at the sight of whose staff Yevaud, the old dragon, winced. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She was a thin, frail sort of woman in a long white nightgown. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t look as frail as Prosper had imagined him from their encounter in the confessional. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The judge immediately released the women who were considered too frail to continue to serve their sentences. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z My sister’s naked, frail body, now on the bare floor, shook from the icy cold seeping through a hole under the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hard trek, I can tell you, and I was in frail condition. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A frail woman with a quavering voice, she invited me in and we sat in her living room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Elijah Muhammad drove his frail energy to speak for about an hour and a half. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He used gasoline in the lighter and it burned with a frail blue flame and he bent and set the tinder alight and watched the fire climb upward through the wicker of limbs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was lean, a warm smile etched on his face, frail and shy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Zillah is blond and skimpy, like the frail flower girls of a few years back. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z How small she looked, how weak and frail and scared. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that “aunt” would do my father mysterious harm. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys turned frail, their skin ashen and their cheeks sinking, as their bodies burned up under the infection. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared obsessively at the frail column of white smoke that was issuing from the volcano, and peered at the changes in the color of the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was then, as she stood there, her shoulders rising and falling with her breathing, that Tommy seemed to become aware for the first time just how frail she was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so frail and thin, with no strength left in his hand, but she could still feel the warmth of life through his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She was smaller and frailer than her sister, but her hair was long and still golden. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As my mom embraced him, the baby transitioned to her, gamely placing frail arms around my mom’s neck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Alex glanced at the house, with the frail little woman inside. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z But Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Neither of his parents is old, but they seem frailer than they should be at their age. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t know that I’d call afternoon early,” she said with a frail smile. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mother places her tiny, angular hand on mine, so frail the joints show through the skin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And then across the road, the strawberry door on the sunlight-shuttered house opened, and a tiny, frail bird of a woman stepped out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He was helped in first, and I saw then how frail he was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The wind blew at her and, like an image on cold water, she rippled, silk standing out from her frail body in tatters of blue rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie didn’t know how that frail old woman knew Teddy Roosevelt, but she could heed a warning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His newest wife, a pale frail girl of sixteen years, walked beside his litter when they carried him in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As she looked again at the clouds and the moon in the Dust flow, they looked as frail and doomed as a dam of little twigs and tiny pebbles trying to hold back the Mississippi. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It is her mother, Missus Walters, looking even frailer than usual in her formalwear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A frail old man entered the room, the ghost of a smile on his withered face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Protected the frail and confronted the King of the Mountain? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z From close up, in the dimness of the tent, he looked extremely frail. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The outrage in my voice was pitifully frail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "He seemed sick for so long. Kind of frail or something." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail that Briony had no idea what she could achieve as she started to go toward them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His arm was frail and thin in Jason’s grasp. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Except the frail, dim figure of Mercer; the old man faced him, a placid expression on his face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z With her smooth face, she looked like a young girl, frail, guileless, and innocent. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And the fact that the frail was his mother and the King of the Mountain his father made it more poignant, but did not change the essential facts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at Prim’s face, it’s hard to imagine she’s the same frail little girl I left behind on reaping day nine months ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He leaped a fence and became aware of a horse following and swung and saw the face of Goree, the frail Texan trailing him like the wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagemess of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Roosevelt would grow up to be “as fit as a bull moose,” but when he was a child, he was very sickly, frail, and nervous. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He saw for one small moment the tragic face of his own frail wife, that unhappy woman, the stone strong face of his mother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked extremely frail, but life still sparkled in his jet-black eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No thread, no frailest hair between myself and the universal clutter! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But she looks so hurt, he thought, she looks so frail and weary. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ma says something to her, and she laughs a small, frail laugh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Slose was a frail, youngish person, with unusually light, bright eyes and a muted, intense voice; he looked like an idealist, a dedicated soul. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a frail barricade, but it did help. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Her eyes were bright, and her shoulders, once frail and hunched, were now straight and firm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady’s-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The frail young man was a gaunt man with white hair. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He would tease her by telling her just how, with her and her apples gone, all the gods were frail and withered—drooling, palsied, quivering hulks, slow of thought and crippled in mind and body. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His frail body trembled terribly as he climbed the stone wall. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Our daughter Makaziwe’s birth was not difficult, yet she was frail and sickly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I look back at her, eye her suspiciously, even though she is so frail under the wool blanket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The colonel was more than a head taller than the chaplain and over twice as broad, and his swollen, overbearing authority made the chaplain feel frail and sickly by contrast. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On the back of each boy and girl was slung a schoolbag; and each frail, milky-white arm had a wristwatch on it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With her was Hugh’s wife: a small, mild-mannered woman who looked far too young and frail to have borne as many children as she had. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They sent for the old woman, and she came: so frail, so gray, so wizened and wrinkled that it seemed like a breeze would blow her away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The stranger was broad-shouldered and thick-chested, but his demeanor made him look frail and pathetic. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z So strong was her affection and zest for life, she did not eliminate the frail, sickly Elihue from it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Ekon’s heart lurched when the old man held out a frail, trembling hand and smiled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A frail luminous glow pushed out between the edges of horizon and clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed he did have a face like a child, and such frail bones that after four weeks’ pack-carrying he already had flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thin and frail, barely able to hold himself upright. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Uncle wrapped thick knitted blankets around them and gave them hot tea, although of the three of them, he looked the frailest and in need of a rest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The driver and a woman dressed in country clothes were gently helping a frail woman with gray in her hair step out of the carriage. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s more gray and frail, but I recognize her from last year’s track meets. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I was frail, not weighing a hundred pounds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “When they were killed, Nerissa became as frail as glass, Henry as hard as stone.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She felt small and frail, so close to him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mother comes closer, the thing in hand, and I’m distracted by how thin her wrists look, how frail her arms are carrying the heavy gray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She looks so frail and sad that even I pity her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some reports say she was born frail and unable to fend off disease. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Lyra was in no doubt what he meant “No,” she said in a voice as frail and frightened as she felt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She stood at attention, like a frail drill sergeant, but her outlines seemed curiously smudged. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh, a frail figure in his mid-fifties, with a wispy gray goatee, stepped toward the microphone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They set sail, probably in frail open boats, from the Red Sea, turned down the east coast of Africa up into the Atlantic, returning through the Mediterranean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time I heard the frail scratching cry of a newborn baby and Edmond seemed tired and cheerless and disappeared before I could find out what had happened. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was kneeling by the Zanies, the frailest ones, the fuse-points; both of them lay huddled up on the floor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The small, frail boy usually settled his older brothers’ and sisters’ disputes, Mother Marie said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He found me in his mother’s room yes-ma’aming her and changing her bed while she sat looking thin and frail beside the window. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z First Wife looked quite ancient and frail with her rounded body, bound feet, her old-style padded jacket and pants, and plain, lined face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm thought about it, and then lifted them all gently away and tucked them down beneath the frail velvet the skeleton was lying on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She hated the frail waver of her voice in the cabin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The assassin pushed past the stumbling sergeant and the frail girl blocking his path. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If they had only known how frail was their iron-wili heroine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands are white and sickly and frail compared with mine. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too frail to swim on his own, but with Jordie’s help, he could float. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Elizabeth was hunched over her sewing machine, intent on getting a new dress ready for the Christmas season, and it is yet another green gown, cheap and frail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Pollard, wan and frail, sat in a wheelchair and waited for them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy so frail and thin through his coat, shivering like a dog. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Those two people in that picture had been holding Cletus between them, frail as they were, ever since Cletus took his first breath. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We girls eyed each other, suddenly aware we were frail flesh, fourteen mouthfuls crowding Doña Charito's patio and drinking up her lemonade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Bathilda also parrots the family line on Ariana, calling her “frail” and “delicate.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He was small and frail, with chestnut skin and wavy white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As I leaned in, my mother’s slip of a dress suddenly felt too small and too frail on me and I felt ridiculously underdressed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Sited there in the darkness, the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The drops of blood red wine in her mouth invigorate her frail body, seeming to ease her pain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I admit that I am frail in my flesh. I, too, fear Claudius.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My eyes had long-since adjusted to the darkness, and I needed only the frail moonlight to guide me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Every human being, no matter how strong or mighty, is frail when it comes to death. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z As he explained in an interview on Thursday: “Winners are great, and we like them, rah-rah. But to me, the beauty of human beings is in the flesh and the failures. We’re all frail.” ‘Black Widow’ Star David Harbour Loves Being a Big-Screen Loser 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Holroyd is a courteous and slightly frail scholar, a man who has been ill with bowel cancer in recent years. Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z His apparently frail charges soon become slightly fractious and remarkably independent, and he literally spends day and night tending to their need for baked pasta, television, a sympathetic ear and a touch of affection. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z But it’s all eyes on Liebling, who reciprocates the crowd’s zeal with a bellow that seems too big, too strong for his too tiny, too frail body. Doomed for life: How Pentagram became metal’s ultimate survivors 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Barely a year after undergoing a liver transplant, the veteran American musician is back on the road with his regular band, looking a little frail but in good voice and excellent spirits. Gregg Allman: living proof of music's healing power 2011-07-05T13:13:18Z “You Don’t Know Jack” takes a considered and insightful look at the frail, elderly man whose embrace of death gave him a reason to live. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z But Mr. Cosby’s lawyers are sure to fight that, depicting him as a frail old man with failing vision, incapable of assaulting another woman or surviving a long sentence. Will Bill Cosby’s Trip From America’s Dad to Sex Offender End in Prison? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z She is frail, fearful of stepping out on the street. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z She now appears pale and surprisingly small, with thick eyeglasses, baggy prison garb and a utilitarian hairstyle that leave her looking both schoolmarmish and frail. Lemak: 'They didn't get to live their lives' 2012-03-25T19:40:00Z Unquestioningly, the sick and frail would be looked after by their families at home. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Money is the only protection—frail and inadequate—against these horrors, and Scrooge’s only thought is to work as hard as he can, every day, to store up as much money as possible. The Ghosts of Christmas: Was Scrooge the First Psychotherapy Patient? 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z There may be echoes of Frankenstein but it emerges that Dr Ledgard is attempting to create something more finessed with Vera: he wants the frail beauty of a human but with supernatural powers. Elena Anaya: Almod?var's new leading lady 2011-08-13T23:04:04Z “Redemption Day,” a Sheryl Crow song, is saggy and treacly, and the spacey pacifism of “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” sounds even more frail in Mr. Cash’s pockmarked voice. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z Some frail older people, he points out, barely see anyone but health professionals; if they can’t talk to them honestly, they are completely isolated. 'Age has nothing to do with it': how it feels to transition later in life 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z I thought, `Oh, she is she is so tiny and frail. John Curran's 'Tracks' recounts epic Aussie trek 2013-08-29T16:22:11Z On Rose Red Rose he sounds frail and a little damaged, but the music couldn't be more vital, the sort of showtunes-goes-psych, Broadway on Venus shtick the Lips do so well. New band of the day ? No 950: Therapies Son 2011-01-20T17:41:47Z But there was nothing frail about his conducting. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z “He wasn’t a frail old man,” she said, adding that he was the one who would stay in the studio “as late as possible.” Diana Krall on Handling Grief, and ‘Finding Romance in Everything’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Plenty of frail adults can manage to pull on normal pants. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein looks sloppy and weak. Do you believe him? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Kusama works in her three-story studio from 9 to 6 every day, sitting in her wheelchair — she can walk, but is frail — painting on canvases laid on tables or propped on the floor. How Yayoi Kusama, the ‘Infinity Mirrors’ visionary, channels mental illness into art 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The combination of such vulnerability and daring as strangers — some truly mystified — stared had the effect of transforming her seemingly frail body into something otherworldly. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Levine’s performance was so masterly that it was a little disconcerting to see him walk onstage during curtain calls with a cane, looking thinner and frail. Music Review: This Time, a Baritone as a Verdi Baritone 2011-01-21T23:47:28Z In short chapters of two or three pages, the unnamed narrator proceeds from rage through “this frail and too bloodless composition,” which he presents to us as an act of revenge. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Moving with difficulty, a walker supporting his frail figure, Mr. Kurtag visibly softened as he sat at the piano. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It also offers a strikingly different image from the existing photo of Dickinson as a frail, teen girl, which was taken before she began writing poetry. Scholars may have 2nd photo of poet Dickinson 2012-09-07T16:06:08Z He looked so frail and fragile, and it broke my heart. Gene Wilder remembered by Kelly Le Brock 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Looking at the frail instrument built in 1740, with all its strings missing, Mr. Elie writes of how amazing it is to think that the discolored keys “were worn down by Bach himself.” Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z Only recently, when his mother began to get frail, did she stop attending each of Givenchy’s runway shows. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Is the King of Fashion Week 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Straining to speak in a soft, frail voice, Durst described seeing “mommy on the roof” the night she fell to her death from his family home when he was 7 years old. Robert Durst takes stand at his trial, denies killing friend 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The perspex is delicate, the vessel frail, the fabric looks unexpectedly chintzy in the London light. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Though more frail every day, Mahoney still had a list of things to do. Terminally ill, he wanted assisted death, but his hospital was Catholic 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z "There are armies, legions, empires of the ill, the frail, the failing; it is the dark side of the moon we call being human." The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review 2013-06-08T13:00:01Z Sipping a tiny whiskey, the frail writer encouraged her daughter to write her biography. Review | Molly Keane worried her daughter wasn’t ‘nasty enough’ to write about her 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z My mother is in her 90s, frail but reasonably healthy, and lives in a senior residence thousands of miles away. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z He kept shooting, even as getting around was harder for him the frailer he became. A Portrait of Weegee That Captures the Man and the Myth in Full 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But while he looked frail during the run, many of the performances were very moving. Adjusting Medication May Prolong Levine’s Tenure at the Met 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Behind his thick glasses and looking frail even then, the author treated us as if we were the celebrities at the table. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: More than magical realism 2014-04-17T23:01:34Z Caressed by golden hues in the sunny flashbacks, appearing wan and frail in some of Emily’s darker moments, Mara proves worthy of Soderbergh’s closeup attention. Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z These frail devices, so much frailer after several hundred years, offer no sustaining succor. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Illusion is a frail beast, and he didn’t want to harm it by giving too much away. From Dante to ‘Walking Dead,’ He’s a Master of Immersive Theater 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It was Mr. Rothman’s great insight that the return of Chaplin — old, frail and confused but still capable of the Little Tramp’s quizzical poignancy — would create a publicity frenzy. Mo Rothman, 92, Entrepreneur Close to Charlie Chaplin, Dies at 92 2011-09-29T00:16:13Z Greengrass also deals with the aftermath, the frail recovery of survivors and the trial of Breivik – for all his stunted fantasy life, not a child but a man of 32. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But she is too frail to handle the kettle, which slips from her grasp. A Playwright?s Fictions Stay Close to Real Life 2011-02-15T23:45:12Z Though there is little that’s frail about her, she trembles slightly and treads deliberately, using hiking poles to keep steady. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z AS he slowly walked through the adoring and bubbling crowd of young people, the frail elderly man brushed a cheek, clasped an arm, bestowed a smile. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z He quickly followed his vivacious, mischievous sibling into the local dancing school, where his mother hoped the classes would strengthen her frail little boy. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z I’m a small person with frail bird bones. Perspective | There are certain realities in being an upright mammal over 50. Let me tell you a few. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Though “Shoot Me” follows the outlines of a cheerful looking-back-on-a-glorious-career documentary, it’s actually quite melancholy in places: Stritch, who struggles with diabetes and alcoholism, is physically much frailer than her wry persona would indicate. ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’: a bittersweet look back 2014-03-06T20:29:04Z Now extremely old, most sit back on life, observing and listening, a wealth of female experience folded up inside their frail bodies. 'I put my head on her knee and cried': what my 102-year-old friend taught me about grief 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z “The delta weather was punishing; it didn’t support the frailer colours of the palette, only the muscular ones, the shocking whites, the brutal reds, the fuchsias and the violets,” Anam writes. A Daughter of Bangladeshi Revolutionaries Makes Sense of Life After War 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z He remarried his first wife Helen, who said the transplant gave him "a completely new lease on life, although he is frail now." Art of Scotland's John Bellany colors with age 2012-11-16T18:05:09Z We learn that following her disappearance, Tara's parents were transformed overnight from confident and poised people "to frail, powerless, elderly, and lost individuals". Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z And Den locks horns with Dr Moore over the need for Beedy to rush back from Edinburgh to visit her frail mother. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z The prince was said Tuesday to be doing well in a London hospital, but he will be 91 on Sunday and is increasingly frail. After jubilee success, monarchy faces the future 2012-06-05T19:08:17Z The 33rd Academy Awards on April 17, 1961, saw Elizabeth Taylor, shaky and frail from a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, accept her lead actress Oscar for "Butterfield 8" onstage at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Memorable moments from past Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A German like the pope, he was also promoted to the job of Prefect of the Pontifical Household, a position that will significantly increase his power as the pope gets older and frailer. Pope's secretary "Gorgeous George" on Vanity Fair cover 2013-01-15T16:05:38Z Place them against the town's awesome rocks and cliffs, as these photographers sometimes did, and people felt themselves even frailer and more temporary. The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography by Robert Crawford ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z Over the past three years, Weinstein has sought strenuously to appear frail, coming to court on a Zimmer frame. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z In the 1940s a family attached a photo of their frail son in a wheelchair to their holiday greeting. Antiques: ?American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960,? at Bard Graduate Center 2011-09-15T21:06:33Z He seems too big and adult at first but skillfully transforms into a smaller, more frail and childlike character. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z On March 3 during a tribute reading in Western Australia, Allen, looking frail, read a selection from Kahlil Gibran. Remembering Daevid Allen, co-founder of Soft Machine and Gong 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z “The Favourite” sees Colman portray Britain’s 18th-century Queen Anne as an insecure, frail and tempestuous royal who treats her horde of indoor rabbits as if they were her dead children. Olivia Colman wins best actress Oscar for 'The Favourite' 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Ruth, two years his senior, remained mentally sharp, if physically frail, through her 10th decade. Jonathan Kozol’s memoir on aging can stand proudly beside Roz Chast’s 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z But she was even more impressive as the frail Antonia, singing herself to death with warm, full tone. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z Though physically frail, Wajda worked until the end of his life. Leading Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Late in life, when O’Brien is frail, defeated, stricken with diabetes and facing mounting debts, his name is finally about to be cleared by the F.B.I. thanks to Goldsmith’s tireless investigative shovel and spadework. Made Man: ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Replays a Famous Disappearance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Durst, who is frail and suffering from a series of health problems, spoke in a soft, raspy voice as he took his chances trying to persuade jurors he did not kill Berman. Robert Durst admits ‘cadaver’ note made him look guilty 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z To keep watch is impossible; every attack of jealousy underlines our condition as a frail human being – we’re not indispensable, we’re afraid of abandonment – and is degrading; it takes away our aura. Elena Ferrante: ‘I don’t believe people who swear they’re not the jealous type’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The way his father suffered toward the end of his life, so frail that he needed his son to bathe him, “it’s like burned in my brain,” he said. Even Billy Eichner Likes This Guy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z He responded, “They were old and frail, living in the Castro, and they disappeared very quickly.” “I was looked at like a disease”: HIV’s enduring stigma 2014-04-02T16:48:00Z My philosophy is sort of that humans are weak, frail, imperfect and generally kind of bad, but every day I meet somebody who’s good, and that inspires me. Tim Kaine talks Hillary and the harmonica 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Another significant factor is that people are living longer, into frail, accident-prone old age. Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z If he appeared physically frail, he soon proved mentally sharp. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z After the amputation, Dr. David Rigberg, associate professor of vascular surgery at the hospital, said there were no complications but her health was frail so she was being monitored closely. Publicist says Zsa Zsa Gabor is back in hospital 2011-02-01T20:47:14Z A victim of Netflix and the wide online availability of exploitation and grindhouse films, the midnight movie as event is looking frail. ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z In this era full of baby boomers caring for frail parents, we’ve seen plenty of documentaries, plays and memoirs about dementia, infirmity, loss. Review: ‘If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’ Finds Vigor After 90 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Her voice is plaintive and frail, but the kind of frail that is fierce. Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He’s a frail old man whose life is nearing its end. Even in retirement, the pope gets immunity 2013-02-19T20:20:00Z Your impulse to find a villain may backfire and your mother emerge as a traumatised survivor of a crime perpetrated by the frail man you now describe. My birth mother’s terrible accusations are tearing me apart | Dear Mariella 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z He had tuberculosis as a young man and could seem frail. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z But he was very old and very frail by then, and I genuinely think he doesn’t remember it anymore. ArtsBeat: Tune In, and Turn On the Reading Light 2013-12-27T20:38:53Z “It’s about being at the end of life and looking back on a big and turbulent life, from the point of a very delicate, frail old lady,” Ms. Streep said. Carpetbagger Blog: Thatcher vs. Nobbs, Round 2: Dueling Premieres 2011-12-15T20:45:29Z “She looks a little frail,” Mrs. Bloomingdale told The New York Times on the day of Mr. Reagan’s state funeral in Washington. Betsy Bloomingdale, Socialite and Friend of Influencers, Dies at 93 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And Mr. Lee hasn’t been getting out as much, after a bout of pneumonia that has left him short of breath and looking frail. Is Stan Lee Being Held Prisoner by Real-Life Villains? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z They looked thin and frail, dressed in dirty shirts, wearing too-short pants and sneakers or flip-flops. 2010-01-14T18:35:00Z The risk of injury goes both ways: When people roll over during the night, small or frail dogs, as well as puppies and kittens, “have been known to get hurt or even worse,” Klein says. The pros and cons of sleeping with pets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z You can see them live here, where they have a real drummer and sound very scratchy and frail – but, we think you'll agree, Tennis are best when they're in the studio, or all at sea. New band of the day ? No 815: Tennis 2010-06-30T16:07:00Z “Flying Over Sunset” left me trying to decide whether muscular design takes over because the ideas are too frail or the ideas retreat because design hogs all the attention. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z He’s quite old and frail now — he’s 87. Isaac Hempstead-Wright on ‘Game of Thrones,’ Bran Stark’s Return and Hodor 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z She was frail, but just look at her workout routine in the Supreme Court gym. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave us more than enough 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z I mean, literally, we turn away, look away, because someone who is struggling brings us the news that we, too, are incredibly frail. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The woman in front of us in line was an older lady, older than Mother by twenty years at least, and her back was already hunched; her arms fell frail around her sides. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Jillian Cantor’s Margot 2013-09-03T20:13:13Z She was a little frail, but vigorous and stubborn, perhaps powered by the determination of someone who was not in flawless health. Watching My Mother Watch Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z And frail Elric, dependent on a soul-stealing sword to keep his kingdom from utter dissolution, is a necessary corrective to the bloat of something like the “Hobbit” movie trilogy. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z He looked frail: his carpet slippers and his little naval cap suggested a body weakened by illness and tenderised by therapies: radio, chemo and possibly physio. Whangee, crook or derby? I have entered the world of the walking stick 2012-10-05T21:30:01Z A 1523 treatise saying that women are too frail and easily deceived – like Eve – to be teachers. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z She slides out of her mother’s body, soot-black and frail as a flower. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z I hope those frail disturbed bones aren't insulted by being given a Christian reburial. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z After several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation and two bone marrow transplants, Ms. Colbert’s cancer went into remission in the spring of 2011, but she remained frail. In Charles Bock’s ‘Alice & Oliver,’ Cancer Is a Highly Personal Villain 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z This is a book about being vulnerable, frail, at the mercy of others. ‘The Last Ocean’ Considers Dementia in All Its Uncertainty 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z According to the announcement, Listeria "can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems." Check your freezers: The FDA has issued a recall on these vegetable items 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z A representation of the ideally proportioned man, the ink-on-paper drawing is so frail that it is not often on public display. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Just before the pandemic, I brought my frail mother to live with us. Perspective | Ask Amy: Prospective mom worries about long-distance help 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Seated side by side, they look frail, shrunken. 'Nicolae Ceausescu': Dictator's reign, downfall 2011-09-22T21:25:05Z Working in an elder care facility, she exerts control over the elderly and frail who both need and fear her. Now and then: How "Yellowjackets" purposefully reminds Gen Xers of who we thought we'd be 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Maddalena was riveting in the long scene in which Nixon meets the frail yet feisty Mao, here the tenor Bruce Brubaker in a performance that captures the chairman’s authoritarian defiance and rapacious self-indulgence. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z Describing this frail Italian princess, who ballooned into a gargantuan widow after the demise of Henri IV, Downie notes that Rubens captured her girth “on enough canvas to sail fleets of galleons.” France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Carter is physically frail, his eyes sparkled. Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z His moral landscape emerges from this space – frail, plucky humanity holding the gap between an indifferent nature and a punishing God. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z He was a frail boy after a bout of St. Vitus’ Dance, a neurological disorder, so he became a creature of his imagination, devouring novels and magazines and dreaming of Hollywood. Review | ‘Warhol’ paints the Pop Art icon as the most influential artist of the 20th century 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z While he made the case that the Stones were more dangerous than ever by dancing on frailer bones, his routine was built not on anxiety or nostalgia, but goofy and gleeful physical comedy. Marc Maron, at BAM, Finds That Happy Also Gets Laughs 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z While they seemed less frail — a good thing — the overall look of a ballet company remained Twiggy thin. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Though its title makes it sound like a remake of “Lord of the Flies,” the play actually concerned a teenage girl afflicted with a frail heart; Mr. Aubrey played her closest friend. James Aubrey, Who Played the Hero in ?Lord of the Flies,? Dies at 62 2010-04-18T04:02:00Z It's been widely reported that Hall, who will be 82 this month and who looks increasingly frail, was heckling, but no theatre professional would dream of being so rude. Should there be more heckling in the theatre? 2012-11-06T13:11:21Z But the consensus is that the 24-year-old Mr. Warner — “frail, bedecked with a long scarf and acquired pop-star status,” as The Guardian’s Michael Billington later recalled — provided the most affecting account. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z An elderly woman, frail and homely, approaches your window. Video games aren’t mindless — or heartless — entertainment 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z DAKAR, Senegal — The 19th-century sword rests in a glass case alongside a frail Quran in a spacious gallery where scrolls hang from the wall and soft religious chanting is piped in. Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations Welcomes Some Treasures Home 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z All that mattered was the music, and the miracles achieved by Abbado, 77, his frail health making each public appearance more precious. Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z “He looked so frail. And I just thought, there’s nothing I can do.” Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "The surgery today went well, however, she is in frail health so we will continue to monitor her closely," said Dr. David Rigberg, associate professor of vascular surgery. Doctors amputate Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg 2011-01-15T00:21:08Z The display is at once macabre, hilarious and weirdly touching, as the frail, harsh-tempered woman who has been braying like a donkey for much of the evening is transformed into a sensual seductress. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z Yet, though her self-confidence radiated into that southern California evening, she looked uncannily frail, almost small. The Voice of America: Whitney Houston (1963-2012) 2012-02-12T03:38:37Z The nonprofit provides community based, long-term-care options to those who are frail, disabled or suffering from brain injuries. A 105th birthday party and Dancing with the Swedish Stars 2012-10-16T00:32:05Z Though always wiry and trim, Mr. Ozawa looked understandably thin and frail at his first appearance. Music Review: Leader and Players, Deeply Bound 2010-12-16T23:06:23Z In all of Backman’s stories, there’s a compelling sense of humanity and a profound compassion for frail human beings, and aren’t we all frail? The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Bandaged and looking frail, the 73-year-old actor and filmmaker was honored Friday with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Dennis Hopper gets a star on Hollywood Boulevard 2010-03-26T20:53:00Z “The support for the arts and humanities is fairly frail.” New Consortium Finances Arts Projects to Aid Recovery 2011-09-14T23:30:12Z I had tuned in at the part where a frail old-man Nazi comes to the idyllic New England small town of Harper, Connecticut, to find and give a Nazi message to the higher-up Nazi mastermind. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The deaths caused by the virus were not from simple exhaustion in frail individuals. Coronavirus: how the lessons of Sars could save us today 2013-03-24T00:05:35Z As they speak, he grows up, she grows older and dies, then he births her as a baby, who ages with him until he’s a frail old man. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The allegations made against Weinstein are so severe that simply dressing and acting like a frail old man might not cut it. Just one more Oscar! Harvey Weinstein's zimmer shuffle was a theatrical tour-de-force 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He was the proverbial frail and sickly child. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z That poem ends with the joyous song of a frail thrush; from the dark death of winter, a symbol of “blessed hope”. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Thompson, who is in his 40s, is made to do that here, and it’s a distraction; until his well-toned arms become visible, it’s easy to believe he is the aged, frail Armstrong. Theater Review: ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-10-17T21:47:00Z A frail, very old lady sat in front of a locker in her bathing suit, cocooned in a raggedy white towel. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The story — and the horror — uncoil in distinctly feminine spaces, to the music of “spoons striking against frail cups” and the high, pealing sound of a woman laughing. Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It shows the frail but poised Cunningham seated in a chair in a dance rehearsal space, performing static interpretations of Cage's famously silent work. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z His name is Elric, a frail, drug-addicted albino and the reluctant ruler of the kingdom of Melniboné, where revenge and hedonism are abiding characteristics, and human beings are enslaved. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In 1975, when the old Franco was already very frail, he ordered the execution of Basque activists. 'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet 2012-11-20T14:36:08Z How to square the tough, self-confident American prose that spilled from the typewriter with the frail, repressed English-educated gent who picked at the keys? A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Yet, the frail 90-year-old still runs a wanton noodle stall in downtown Singapore, selling at least 200 bowls on any given day. Aging Singapore: 90-year old noodle vendor helps keep foodie... 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z I realise it’s a heavy burden to place on your presently frail shoulders, but I’m hopeful that if you start the conversation the rest of the household will eventually engage, too. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z An acoustic guitar, both frail and comforting, is still at the core of the music. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z Suddenly, this seemingly frail man was generating a brazen, beautiful, colossal sound, the heels of his shoes kicking a beat into the floor like he might dent the hardwood. Perspective | McCoy Tyner’s eternal return 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z That voice soars once more on “Among Angels,” noting Bush’s deeper register, and along with the glassy, frail piano, she sings of seeing angels shimmering “like mirrors in summer.” Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z The disparity between the blazing stage performer with the glare of a lion on the prowl and the frail, fearful old woman seen in the hospital after a medical crisis could hardly be greater. Movie Review: ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Goes Backstage With a Legend 2014-02-20T22:58:17Z At Salzburg this summer, Barenboim appeared a frail shell of his former self, straining to mount the podium as he led the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the youth ensemble he founded with Edward Said. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z And though Hockney looks a bit frail, swathed in layers of sweaters, he is animated and clearly enjoying himself. Artist David Hockney builds on his portraits for the 21st century 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z While she tends to her aging father, ill and frail, she accompanies an amateur bird-watcher for a year, simply for the pleasure of parsing out his love for the “imperfect and struggling.” Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z But, says Suzman, whose new book Not Hamlet explores what she calls "the frail position of women in drama", gender-blind casting of the classic repertory is not a solution. Actors' union rallies theatres to enable more parts for women 2012-06-29T16:44:14Z Except for the über-creepy Russian heavy in Berlin, whose tiny, frail 83-year-old granny Anna is even tougher and creepier than he is. Audiobook review roundup 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z He cuts a slightly frail and tremulous figure these days, older than his 69 years, but advancing age certainly hasn't made his countenance any sunnier. Lou Reed ? review 2011-07-06T17:30:02Z Finally, Mira Schendel pierced slight sheets of fibrous rice paper with thread, hanging them on a line between two walls like frail bits of laundry gently rippling on the slightest currents of air. New gallery adds another dimension with its spacious 'Abstract Sculpture by Women' 1947-2016 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z When he did, his answer was brief but eloquent: TN No, but I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail. Tony Nicklinson: 'I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail' 2012-06-23T21:04:49Z If Ms. Sigman’s shoulders at first seem too narrow to carry any weight, her character’s resilience and the actress’s committed performance undergird that frail form. | 'Miss Bala': Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Depicts Drug War - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:20Z And he describes W. H. Auden leaving America after 33 years to return home to England, looking “terribly old and frail, but nobly formal as a Gothic cathedral.” Review: Oliver Sacks Looks at His Life in ‘On the Move’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z After Aaron dies, the increasingly frail Joy frets that she’ll be sent to a nursing home, where she’ll have to fend off “some senile old goat.” Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z He was mentally frail, he cried very easily, and he was something of a manic depressive. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Mina herself, in the meantime, is pregnant and thus assumed by those around her to be in a diminished state — physically delicate and mentally frail. In a Battle for Female Personhood, These Plays Are on the Front Lines 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Lay the salmon next to these foods: it's pink like an unhealed scar, frail and looks in need of a hug. I used to hate salmon — until I tried this 4-ingredient honey marinade 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z An apologia writ in hair about what happens when a muscular intellect is married to frail corporate governance. The Shearing of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z In the 80s and 90s, three sequels were added to the original, and these four were then marketed as a “quadrilogy”, a phrase bursting horribly through the frail chest of the English language. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z This debut’s title refers to the frail human body and to the world itself. Newly Published, From Primo Levi to ‘Positive Masculinity’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z They find that ghosts haunt the New York Public Library, traumatizing a librarian, whose salary is paid by the taxpayers, and that demons inhabit the frail frame of a penny-pinching accountant, played by Rick Moranis. Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Media speculation about his deteriorating health was sparked by his gaunt and frail appearance in recent months. Bee Gee Robin Gibb makes "spectacular" recovery 2012-02-03T18:34:52Z Now at 93, Mom is too frail to do the ambitious cooking and baking that was once her everyday passion. Nobody doesn’t like cannoli — unless they’ve had a soggy one 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Jean is a traditional family man devoted to his frail 80-year-old father, whom he visits regularly in a retirement home, where he lovingly washes the old man’s feet. | 'Mademoiselle Chambon': St?phane Briz??s Subtle Love Triangle 2010-05-27T23:06:00Z It is a reminder, weirdly, that dance music is often best when the frail hand of man, and the imperfections of analogue equipment, are clearly audible. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in this novel of the Burma-Thailand Railway of World War II. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z And at the center of it all sat H. H. Holmes, a frail little man in a prison cell spinning yarns for the press and sending investigators on wild-goose chases. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But he was now very frail, and while Lopokova remained by his side, trying to mitigate the physical and emotional stresses of his war work, in April 1946 he suffered his last and fatal attack. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z Over the next fifteen years the number of people who are sick, old, and frail will double. The case for Medicare for all — plus 7 smaller steps to fix U.S. health care 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Likewise, it seems reasonable that your mother, whom you describe as “elderly and frail,” might need a wheelchair in an airport. I Stopped Drinking. Why Should That Affect My Social Life? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Winters, in frail health in later years, has also been the subject of a campaign to raise money to erect a monument in his honor near the beaches of Normandy. 'Band of Brothers' inspiration dies at age 92 2011-01-10T19:45:39Z It's an end-of-the-world cabaret full of the frail absurdity of humanity. Popcorn Machine 2013-01-15T12:35:23Z “She was in frail health by then, but she smiled,” Griffiths remembers. ‘We grieve’: the anguish of not seeing a new grandchild amid the pandemic 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Pollini begins to look frail at 72, and an errant phrase or two at the start of the concerto raised fears for his performance. Lucerne Festival in Switzerland Aims for Accessibility 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z By taking a stand against abortion, Mr. Bieber risks finding out how frail and tenuous that bond might be. Twilight of the Teen Idol 2011-02-20T06:15:04Z Weller explains in an intro that Bradbury was frail and fading in these final years, but in their discussions he remains full of passion. Books to Watch Out For: December 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z A little more than two decades later, there is something quaintly fatalistic about Jerde's attitude toward the frail state of public space. Los Angeles public space is rambunctious again; let's dress it properly 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Lee, who lives in her native Alabama and has been in frail condition, had alleged she was "duped" into signing over the copyright. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' finally going digital 2014-04-28T12:40:41Z Suggesting frail bodies, they sag rumpled on the floor or hang in fleshy folds from ceilings. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z A listeria infection "can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems," the FDA outlined. Brie and Camembert cheeses sold at Target, Whole Foods recalled over Listeria contamination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Six years later, at 24, he would marry 16-year-old Rosa Lee Carlton, who survives Watson, though she is frail having recently suffered a stroke. Arthel 'Doc' Watson dies 2012-05-30T02:19:00Z Assured and affecting performances from the cast succeed in tugging at heartstrings, especially Smith’s, whose frail ox ready for pasture is rueful but grounded, in a role that might easily turn maudlin. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z As a survivor of abuse, bullying and mental illness, she says, she found in the frail and dreamy JT a viable alter ego, the first-person narrator of fantasies that leaked into the real world. Review: ‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’ Renders a Literary Charlatan 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z If I had to think of one thing that knocked me back: I became more optimistic and less scared about getting old, becoming frail, than I had been before I started. ‘The Last Ocean’ Considers Dementia in All Its Uncertainty 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z As she cast it aside, her youth faded and she bore her true form: an old and frail body. Twitter Reacts to Melisandre's Reveal on 'Game of Thrones' 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Michelangelo makes the flesh of Christ's frail body so real and tender in death it is heartbreaking. Rothko vandalism: why are the greatest works attacked? 2012-10-08T12:42:35Z Colman, who portrays the monarch as frail and tempestuous, is tipped to win Leading Actress later in the evening. 'The Favourite' kicks off BAFTA awards with early wins 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The soprano Susanna Phillips doubles as Antonia, the frail, ill young woman who loves to sing, and, in the epilogue, Stella, the diva Hoffmann adores. Review: ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Most were premature and all were frail and very vulnerable. Fifteen babies poisoned by infected fluids from intravenous drip 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharp, now a frail 84 and living in a modest working-class neighborhood of Boston, is the quiet, self-effacing subject of this admiring film from the British director Ruaridh Arrow. Movie Review: Gene Sharp in Documentary ?How to Start a Revolution? 2012-02-24T00:04:58Z “He was always a gentleman,” her frail old servant Furs reminisces, and when he pictures Lee standing in the elegant room, we envision him there as well. Fringe Festival? Not This Summer. Fringe Spirit? Definitely. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z To support herself and her sister — Ameze was too frail for the task — Rosa left school for factory work in the garment district. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z The effect is simultaneously thrilling and haunting, a dichotomy that gets to the very heart of being human: We’re both sturdy enough to live and frail enough to die. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “He seems frail, he seems weak, he seems confused,” Hannity said. A different view of the Democrats on Fox News prime time 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z And this became part of her notoriousness, too: She was frail — but just look at her on the bench, asking attorneys sharp, probing questions about the laws that would affect and shape us all. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave us more than enough 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z For years, Djokovic was known for being a little bit frail mentally. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z He was very frail when he died, but he still kept that with him. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z She seemed both frail and acerbic, and I recall her giving a speech that partly had to do, if I remember it correctly, with the dangers of relying on credit cards. Literary Idol: Meg Wolitzer on Mary McCarthy 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z On “30 Hours,” over a frail Arthur Russell sample, he raps about how hard he used to work for love, or something like it. Review: Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo,’ Songs of Praise and Self 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z And even as she grew older and more frail, it did not derail her, as she would out-salon even the youngest guests. Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Salon She Left Behind 2011-10-21T20:35:56Z And just so, when someone at the University of Maryland Medical Center ordered the security guards to dump a frail and confused patient out in the cold, they didn’t say no. Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “Yet to itself, it seems weak and frail.” ‘Wall’ Review: A Writer Reflects on Borders 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Once again, he was too frail to walk onstage for a bow. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z He then took the couch – looking frail and strange, a radical departure from the big, talkative gadfly who's been a television fixture for nearly 30 years. Roger Ebert on "Oprah": The critic's voice 2010-03-02T23:05:00Z A frail, stooped figure, the woman wandered the city in a white dress and ghostly white makeup. Review: ‘Yokohama Rosa,’ With Michiko Godai, at Japan Society 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z “We’re living longer, and the context of death is changing. Longer life means we accumulate more long-term conditions, and people tend to be frail for longer,” he said. Welcome to the Departure Lounge. Destination: death 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Is it possible I saw only the compensatory tyrant and not the frailer soul beneath? My Story: Face to Face With Mom in the Mirror 2013-01-15T13:00:00Z Despite her deceptively frail appearance, she maintained the stance of a frontierswoman shaped by the extreme circumstances of her native state. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Carne was popular with her neighbors and performed occasionally in cabaret and dinner theater, he said, but she was frail and remained so. Judy Carne, ‘Sock It to Me Girl’ on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 76 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z She is frail, and she doesn't eat when she should do, and she's a girl, and it's tougher for a girl. Elton John: father figure 2012-06-01T19:00:01Z Even as his body was growing frail and he was experiencing pains in his back, he was working diligently to bring several projects to completion, according to friends and colleagues. For Leonard Cohen, the End Came With a Fall in the Night 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Many of the people preparing for Saturday worship that morning were elderly, frail and most in need of community care. What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z It unfolds chronologically up the Guggenheim’s quarter-mile spiral, and his frail anthropoids have generous breathing room in the museum’s bays. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Who would have thought the Tiger would ever become so old and frail? Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z She consents to be fed her poisonous home remedy; soon, she is dazed and frail. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “Love, frail as gossamer, stitched together from a thousand songs and a thousand comic books, made of the dialogue spoken in films and the posters designed by ad agencies: love was what she lived for.” Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s ‘Velvet Was the Night’ is a noir-thriller as captivating as its title 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Funny, frail, effete, Bettany’s Warhol is as meticulously impersonal as his art, and my goodness he whines. ‘The Collaboration’ Review: A Basquiat-Warhol Bromance in Bloom 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The immense sail was taut, its mirror surface sparkling and glittering gloriously in the Sun … Something so huge, yet so frail, was hard for the mind to grasp. Arthur C Clarke's DNA to join mission into deep space 2013-06-26T12:46:16Z She isn't writing poetry now; at 86, her health is frail, says her son-in-law David Rigsbee. Poetry Northwest journal revived at Everett Community College 2011-07-15T20:36:37Z In the spring of 1917 it was a considerably frailer Mark Robinson who found himself back in Algonquin Provincial Park. Finding Tom Thomson’s body: The mysterious death of a famous Canadian artist 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Seeing her frail figure, looking much older than her 38 years, one wonders "Why is she doing this?" My hero: Kishwar Desai on Irom Chanu Sharmila 2011-01-08T00:06:18Z Mr. Lieberher’s Oliver is frail and hypersensitive, shy but precociously alert. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z This Richard is so frail it's as if he might snap in two. Shakespeare's Richard II: which actor wears the crown best? 2013-01-24T12:23:19Z Sure, the documentary was fond, but it was also dishy and, with Mr. Nichols both feisty and frail, immensely moving. Memorable Theater of 2016: Twining Twins, Bathroom Sex and Cod Kisses 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Thatcher is now 86, frail and suffering from dementia. Iron Lady or monster? Thatcher film stirs UK passions 2012-01-05T16:50:30Z Although frail, Tutu attended a service on Thursday at St. George’s Cathedral in central Cape Town, where as the country’s first Black Anglican archbishop he delivered sermons excoriating apartheid. Mural of South Africa’s Desmond Tutu is fixed for his 90th 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Apparently back to full vocal health, Damrau, as the frail Antonia who sings herself to death, showed no signs of frailty as she sang herself to death with gusto. The opera villain was forced to lip-sync and a new star couple emerged at L.A. Opera's 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Seated side by side, their backs to the wall, they look frail, shrunken. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z But you would not have called her frail. Marianne Faithfull, as Years Go By 2011-12-23T21:47:23Z In 1977, we find him frail, reticent and seemingly doubting his very self. “Low”: Bowie’s crowning moment 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z I find a lot of the time that stories relating to grandparents concentrate on coping with death and frail old people. Penelope Harper's top 10 great grandpa books 2012-06-19T10:41:26Z Or Dominic Palazzolo, “the first boy in our neighborhood to wear sunglasses,” who looked “frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z In my hospital bed, I was told that she was in intensive care, but I wasn’t prepared for how frail she looked. ‘He collapsed at the roadside. I thought he was dead’: couples on surviving trauma 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z He leans to one side and appears somewhat frail, yet he stares forth with an assurance beyond his years. J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z He eventually became too frail to continue panhandling, but he remained in the public eye a while longer. Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z If you want to be old and frail, this is the way to go. 12 Tips for Living a Longer Life 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “I was very sad, but he got so frail in that last year. And suddenly, I was mourning the death of somebody who was like 50- or 60-something.” Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Remarking late in the first act “we are all frail,” he awakens us to the dilemma of one in thrall to a pathology greater than his ability to control it. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z A frail, white-haired woman and former gallery owner, she is mostly confined to a wheelchair. French Art Dealer Spends Time in Detention in Case of Missing Artworks 2011-07-20T19:21:28Z Durst, who is sick and frail and sat throughout the trial in a wheelchair, was not present when the verdict was read. Prosecutor: Jurors conclude Durst heir ‘killed them all’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Mulan, the girl who disguises herself as a man to join the army in place of her frail father, is beloved by Disney fans. Review: ‘The Legend of Mulan’ Choreographs a Chinese Folk Tale 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Looking frail, he began his brief acceptance speech by sardonically thanking the paparazzi for supposedly distracting him and causing him to lose his balance and fall the day before. Dennis Hopper, an ?Easy Rider? Misfit, Dies at 74 2010-05-29T22:17:00Z A bare-bones fire service is doggedly maintained in Highland Park, "the Detroit of Detroit", a separate, even frailer settlement surrounded by the city. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z Bristling against a sense of obsolescence, he throws himself into building a bed for his grandson, undeterred by a heart condition that has rendered him frail. ‘Africa’ Review: Aging and its Discontents 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Saint Laurent, never the most robust of individuals, looks alarmingly frail in most of the footage. ‘Celebration’ Review: The Final Stand of Yves Saint Laurent 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Assuming a more pedestrian, scaled-down, appropriate-for-the-setting look, by contrast, can communicate seriousness — but can also remind jurors and other observers, perhaps inconveniently, that megacelebrities are, after all, just frail and fallible humans like everyone else. Perspective | At trial, Gwyneth Paltrow is dressing for where she’d rather be 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z In Sunday’s finale when Amma dresses up as Persephone, goddess of the Underworld, she explains her character's myth while behaving like a meek, frail child. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z God set me up as frail asthmatic child. Mr Chow restaurant opens in Las Vegas: 'The only thing Chinese is my name' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z But as emotionally frail as she is, she still rallies just enough to keep the match close and gives us hope for an upset. Review | Who’s telling the truth? ‘Tangerine’ is a twisty tale of friendship, death and deceit 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z "Mr. Knight was still extremely frail from his gunshot injuries less than five months earlier," Tooson wrote in a statement. APNewsBreak: Suge Knight sues Chris Brown over club shooting 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Collins, who is 67 but looking so much older, calls his roadshow the “Not Dead Yet Tour,” a seemingly knowing wink at his frail physical state. Review | Phil Collins may be physically frail, but in concert his hits remain as sturdy as ever 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Not only does this enliven Shakespeare's sluggish exposition, it also suggests the magical power and long-nurtured political rage of this seemingly frail Prospero. The Tempest ? review 2011-04-10T20:31:00Z Caught between two worlds, she appears frail, vulnerable and out of place in her Sunday best. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Du Zhuang, frail and as insubstantial as plasterboard, was pushing his suitcase with one hand, and holding his phone with the other. China’s little emperors – the children without siblings 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z After a farmer in Tamil Nadu receives a small, frail black goat from a stranger, he and his wife are pleased to see the animal thrive. 9 Books to Watch For in December 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z As the work thins out and the frail humanity emerges, Giddins may face his greatest challenge. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z As he huddled in a chair, looking frail and slightly wary, his three sons hovered about him protectively. Art: Letting His Life?s Work Do the Talking 2011-02-20T02:02:00Z Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year to be near family as she became increasingly frail from diabetes and a broken hip and memory loss. Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 In March, his frail appearance while conducting Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra visibly alarmed musicians onstage, according to a Washington Post account. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor known for his subtle interpretations, dies at 80 But those memories are as frail and fleeting as chalk, not as lasting as street names, bronze statues, the Henry Hudson Bridge building, or the Frick mansion. City of Women 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. DeFranco’s mother, the former Louise Giordano, who worked in clerical and factory jobs, was, he recalled, frail and high-strung and was committed to a state mental hospital, where she died after 35 years. Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Sara, though always frail in health, managed to sustain a quiet but productive literary career of her own, doing so with considerable resilience and élan. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z James Morris sounded somewhat frayed but offered an effective portrayal of the frail Timur. Music Review: ‘Turandot’ Opens at Metropolitan Opera 2012-09-27T21:51:26Z “For poor people, frail people and especially for rural people, the post office is so important.” Trump, beware: Americans have a deep, enduring love for the Postal Service 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The news again raised the question of whether the increasingly frail Mr. Levine, 68, can continue as music director. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z Maeve boards the high-tech train that will take her to freedom, and looks anxiously at the people sitting around her; for the first time in many episodes, she looks vulnerable and frail. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Ozawa, looking thin and frail, moved cautiously across the stage and into position; his main difficulty, it seemed, was stepping onto and off the high podium. Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z A frail but pleased Mr. Bowie took in the show, greeted the cast and even appeared on stage, beaming in a T-shirt and blazer, for a curtain call. David Bowie Allowed His Art to Deliver a Final Message 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z A look is being favored that is slender, frail, a little wan and a bit feminine, and yet with a distinct streetwise toughness. | Oh, Man 2014-03-08T02:35:49Z In his own telling, Vasari characterizes himself as a frail child who suffered from chronic nosebleeds. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Kuniyoshi is a small, seemingly frail man, but the breath rose and flowed out of him with easy vigor. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z He was too old, too frail to go outside. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z No cause of death was cited, but Battaglia had been in frail health for some time. Letizia Battaglia, who shot life and death in Palermo, dies 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z This frail construction of quick nerves and bones Cannot sustain the shock of elements; This temporary blend of blood and dust Was put together only to dissolve MONTCLAIR, N.J. Dance Review: In a Struggle of Wills, Who Is Really the Manipulator? 2010-10-26T20:17:00Z As for their dad, Mr. Boxer makes Gloucester frailer and more fatuous than usual, a sort of pocket Polonius upon whom disproportionate punishments are inflicted. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z These days, though Douglas walks with a cane and is on the frail side, he's sweet and full of good humor. Kirk Douglas proves a sublime master of rhyme on page and in person 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z But life isn't like that; and nor are the frail strands of economic theory we clutch at from crisis to crisis. Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z One counterpart might be the frail music of Salvatore Sciarrino, the Italian composer who uses extended instrumental techniques to create delicate sounds that often stay at the pianissimo level. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z They celebrated Mexico’s indigenous cultures; imbued her frail, damaged body with a powerful aura; and displayed an early grasp of the fluidity of gender and identity. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The group stuff was hard for him because he was frail, mentally and physically. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “Even if he deteriorates? He looks so … frail.” Today I have to talk to three of my patients about dying. This is how I do it 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z When Mr. Pärt, bearded, frail and smiling shyly, took a bow at the end of the evening — this was his first visit to New York in 30 years — the roar that greeted him seemed unanimous. Diverse Disciples Flock to an Arvo Pärt Tribute 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z And yet, Pyle says, “I could never play Giselle, because I didn’t look like Giselle as we think of her — this very frail, light, delicate young girl.” This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z He was frail and wouldn’t want to live a feeble life, in a chair, unable to plunge into the lake and take his signature quick strokes out from the dock and back. Modern Love: Sad News Like a Warm Hug Goodbye 2012-08-09T20:31:28Z All of this awaits you in the back of the crisper drawer, and with far more patience than the rest of those frail vegetables, I might add. Green cabbage merits your undivided attention 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z "Baa baa black sheep," whispered a frail infant next to me, before clenching his fists, closing his eyes, filling his lungs and bellowing "HAVE YOU ANY WOOL?" Bidisha's thought for the day: Children 2011-03-19T09:30:00Z While obviously a fan, she insists her portrayal of Richards will show "all of it" - "how difficult she was, how changeable, how strong, how weak, how thin-skinned, how frail, how courageous, how terrified." Holland Taylor plays 'the thrill of a lifetime' 2013-02-21T14:13:10Z Is she insensitive to the harsh realities of caregiving, in her drive to get the most out of that frail, aged research subject? In ‘Precious Little,’ a linguist grasping for the right words 2013-08-08T19:43:11Z Meanwhile, he always returns to us frail human beings — we who struggle to understand not only the external world of atoms and galaxies but also the internal world of our hearts and our minds. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Mrs. Gambaro, who is suffering from dementia and is frail, is now being cared for at a nursing home in Virginia, her daughter said. Retha Walden Gambaro?s Sculptures at the Heard Museum 2012-02-04T00:29:26Z Scan today’s major releases of horror and suspense, and you’ll find that the frail, vulnerable, decaying, smushy human body has remained cinema’s favorite torture chamber. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z We see him last year at home, frail but feisty. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The letters, the pleas, became more insistent as the war approached, and as Laemmle grew ill and frail. Unlike His Peers, a Studio Chief Saved Jews From the Nazis 2014-04-11T12:00:02Z On Christopher Street, on Seventh Avenue, in front of Village Cigars or St. Vincent’s, men my age were growing weak and frail before my eyes. Joyce Brabner looks back at the early days of AIDS 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He is in frail health and is usually seen in a wheelchair. Berlin plans people's party to mark 25 years since fall of Wall 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Oates, in a floppy sun hat, appeared frail but feisty; at 84, her curiosity was as omnivorous as ever. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z A frail Biggs on Thursday launched an updated edition of his autobiography, "Odd Man Out." 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs launches memoir 2011-11-17T17:20:14Z The Jogger careened around them as we dodged frail memorials and toppled monuments. Father's Day, every day, with my disabled son 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z “But it was also communication. It was, in its way, power. It was a way for frail little humans to recreate, through hands made ‘thunderous,’ the rumbles and smashes of nature.” Perspective | The nightly ovation for hospital workers may be New York’s greatest performance 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Olivia Colman has been named best actress at the Venice film festival for her role as a frail and volatile Queen Anne in the quirky period comedy The Favourite. Olivia Colman wins best actress award at Venice festival 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z But this pigeon was far too frail to be shipped, so Tillery called upon the power of the Internet to coordinate volunteer drivers. Five strangers drove a 600-mile relay to save an injured pigeon 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Tall, frail and almost grotesquely skinny, Josh was the kind of person who looked as if the only suntan he’d gotten in recent years was from the glow of a laptop screen. For Me, He Was Willing to Face His Worst Fear 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In time, though, her mother grows increasingly frail, they also assume an undertow of sadness. Review: ‘No Home Movie,’ of Love and Melancholy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “I pray that I’m not a ghost,” Georgia Nott sings in “Won’t Hurt,” making her voice small and frail as she sings about pretending to be more confident than she feels. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In March, when Boulez turned 90, the tributes and birthday celebrations were ubiquitous but also bittersweet, given that he was too frail to participate. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z His voice sounded so vital and powerful, and yet at the same time so frail and so very, very old. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z What’s most striking about Chayka’s minimalist gestures is how frail they seem next to the larger upheavals that are taking place. ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z We see him become increasingly frail, confronting his disease and a life full of regret. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z I was frail, I was withdrawn, and I lost people. You changed me: I rescued my dog Augusta, but really she rescued me 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Who wouldn’t sympathize with a woman who spends her workdays caring for frail, old people? Television Review: HBO’s ‘Paycheck to Paycheck’: A Single Mother’s Struggle 2014-03-16T21:26:27Z Her features seem to shift, appearing sharp from some angles and soft from others, and her body can look alternately sturdy and frail, depending on the circumstances. Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? - Review 2011-10-20T22:19:32Z The unit’s patients are the frail elderly, and, when necessary, the staff members are serious about their care. Times Critics Share Last-Chance TV Picks 2013-12-26T21:26:10Z Alongside the fury was a kind of overwhelming warmth that seemed to emanate from her frail frame and her uncertain smile and pull Willy back from the brink just in time. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z I was afraid of breaching this security fence; afraid my questions would pierce their emotional armour to reveal their frail humanity; afraid they would cry. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Granted eternal life, she was so frail she had to live in a jar to avoid deliquescing – her only wish was to die. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z Ralph dismisses such extrasensory perception as more liability than gift, especially since Michael grows increasingly frail by exercising his powers and comes to depend on Hilda for friendship, stability and reassurance. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But once seated on a piano stool placed on the podium, he hardly seemed frail; his gestures were, as usual, restrained and focused. Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Axl is stooped by age, prone to occasional confusion; Beatrice is frail, tormented by ailments. Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ defies easy categorization 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s frail and “thin as the skeleton of a cartoon fish left by a cartoon cat.” He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Born in Massachusetts in 1918 to Russian-Jewish parents, Bernstein was a frail, shy child who blossomed into an excellent musician and a charismatic extrovert. Seattle festival celebrates the many facets of Bernstein and his music 2010-04-07T22:17:00Z In his last scene, he looks as heartbreakingly frail and faded as ET in the medical tent. Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas steals the show as Liberace 2013-06-04T14:38:00Z She became so frail at one stage, a priest was called to her bedside to read the actress her Last Rites. Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized for leg complication 2011-03-03T00:52:00Z Now 79 and frail, she rarely grants in-depth interviews, even skipping glamorous events held in her honor. Joan Didion documentary: Griffin Dunne on telling his aunt's story 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Davis, who turns 85 this fall, looked a little frail when he walked to the podium. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z He says Helm "foul-mouthed, hard-rock bombast" is "masking an ego as frail as spun sugar". Edinburgh Comedy awards - Who's who? 2013-08-21T17:04:20Z The sense of occasion was deepened by the sight of Colin Davis's increasingly frail figure, patiently stirring the acoustic consomme with a faultless sense of proper pacing. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z Hardy, who received his first cancer diagnosis at just 9 months, is currently in intensive care with an adenovirus that is wreaking havoc with his frail immune system. A 7 year-old wins a fight for unapproved drugs 2014-03-12T18:31:00Z Mr. Cosby, 83, returned to his home in suburban Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon where, looking frail and walking slowly, he was helped inside by his lawyer and a spokesman. Bill Cosby Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Instead he captures two frail men who never take off their Beatles uniforms, even when no cameras are around. Review: Lennon and McCartney Wait Out a Storm in ‘Only Yesterday’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z At times, the winds sounded washed-out, the strings harsh and frail. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Colman was nominated for her portrayal of a frail and tempestuous Queen Anne in 18th century Britain in “The Favourite” while Bale was recognized for political comedy “Vice”, in which he plays former U.S. Colman, Bale lead British talent charge in Oscar race 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z His tenor sings a convincing version of that frail chairman’s frail banter, bad jokes and opaque metaphors, all duly emulated by his American guests. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z The players paid minute attention to changes in texture and timbre; in a single chord, at the end, their sound grew from dry and frail to robust warmth, before fading back into nothing. New Music From Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Tiny and frail even as a young woman, with large, sad eyes, she was a novelist, journalist, playwright and essayist. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Washington Post writer Sally Jenkins, who conducted the final interview, described Paterno then as frail, speaking mostly in a whisper and wearing a wig. Joe Paterno dies of lung cancer; colleagues say heartbreak, turmoil may have played role 2012-01-23T10:48:00Z The actor may be too frail, at 88, to travel to New Zealand, but a blue-screen appearance filmed in London would surely be better than recasting the role. Is Peter Jackson planning Lord of the Hobbits? 2010-12-09T13:41:00Z Waits is joined by Richards on the choruses of the spare, delicate ballad “Last Leaf,” each sounding exceedingly frail as they sing about the ambivalence of being that final leaf to fall from a tree. Tom Waits Goes Back to the Well on Bad As Me 2011-10-25T09:00:51Z In casting Riva as the frail, fading Anne, the director is implicitly trading on the actor's former glories. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z She was a frail child, desperately ill with TB, hepatitis and scarlet fever. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z His nephew, Saeed Ibrahim, watched helplessly as his uncle grew frail. America has blood on its hands: Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z First a political science teacher regales Gilles's class with a passage from Blaise Pascal that ends: "Between us and heaven and hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world." Something in the Air – review 2013-05-25T23:05:38Z Jackson's son Jermaine told the Daily Mail on June 21 that his father was "very, very frail." Joseph Jackson, father of pop culture icons Michael and Janet, dead at 89 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Today he is frailer, certainly, but more compellingly acute in his judgments. Max Stafford-Clark: by hook or by crook 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z Froemke, who interviewed Campos at age 92 before she died last year, said “she was very frail physically, but the minute she spoke she became formidable.” Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z CARACAS, Venezuela — The frail elderly man and his curly- haired protégé made their way through a narrow aisle between two lines of a singing choir. ArtsBeat: A Musical Exchange in Venezuela: El Sistema Performs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2012-02-17T00:04:15Z “Ladies” were not expected to enjoy a happy sexual life, but to remain frail and delicate flowers. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z No natural, she started dancing as this frail little child and never stopped. Tony Parsons: My hero Cyd Charisse 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The last time he had seen Waksal, they were frail and fearful teenagers, covered in coal. They were prisoners in the Holocaust together. They just reunited. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z And a frail Kirk Douglas, whose speech was slurry from a stroke, was brought onstage to present the award for best supporting actress. The Tv Watch: Make It New? Oscar Courts Internet Age 2011-02-28T05:33:01Z Her singing is frail but determined on this album, which hits like an intense whisper. Review: Florist Offers Skeletal Songs That Find Strength in Damage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z She was frail, but she was strong, and that was the real message. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave us more than enough 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: David Rose/Rex Features The Pope may be too frail in body and mind to go on, but not director Jonathan Miller. Is theatre ageist? 2013-02-13T15:44:00Z I was seated up front next to a huge bear of an Irishman and a frail, small woman beside him. Letters: Reader Comments on Nov. 20 Vows Column 2011-11-26T01:02:01Z Can this frail piece of art be the great work that inspired a dramatic and costly public effort in 2006 to buy it and keep it here, in the city of its birth? 'Gross Clinic' painting undergoes its own public surgery 2010-05-13T23:44:00Z I love the BBC, the way I loved my frail and elderly mother. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z Circling the grounds clockwise were half a dozen frail and elderly Bhutanese, some with hunched backs and canes, chanting the six perfections that lead to enlightenment: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Of course, Madison knows something about keeping that frail hope alive. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Finale: All Thumbs 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z One of my favorite horror films of 2021 was this deeply moving, brazenly violent drama, written and directed by Jonathan Cuartas, about a frail young blood drinker and his sibling caretakers. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The dancer Christopher McDaniel said that Mitchell seemed frail at those rehearsals. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The northwest corner of 49th and Sixth becomes part of that family library, the moment when a ghost great-grandmother, a frail grandmother, and Sarah and I share a single embrace. Romancing the Stone 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z A memory of him onstage I will cherish: his graceful portrayal of a frail, centenarian poet in “The Night of the Iguana.” Clayton Corzatte is remembered for more than fine acting 2013-05-15T23:24:28Z As you get older, the diseases start coming, often the consequences of the things we did in our hedonistic days; we become more frail, more fragile. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z He may sometimes seem physically frail, as anybody would just a few months after undergoing surgery for colon cancer, but his voice is indefatigable. Bobby Womack – review 2012-11-26T13:10:48Z Radiating arrogance more than confidence, today they seem frail. The exhibition that has art fans in a fury: Our critic's take on MOCA's Carl Andre retrospective 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But those who are closest to her scoff at such conspiratorial theories, saying Harper Lee, now 88 and admittedly frail, remains fully capable of making up her own mind. Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Last Monday's episode featured the last, brief appearances by a visibly frail Hagman. 'Dallas' funeral for J.R. honors Larry Hagman 2013-03-08T14:10:43Z Bandaged and looking frail, the 73-year-old actor and filmmaker was honored Friday with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Dennis Hopper gets a star on Hollywood Boulevard 2010-03-26T20:53:00Z One hospital boss said that the demand for care is so relentless, especially from older, frail patients, many of whom need to be admitted as an emergency, that "it's now like winter all year round". NHS faces mounting financial crisis as deficit heads towards £1bn 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z At one point Cohen, stooped and frail but sharp as ever in an impeccably tailored black suit, treated the audience to a recitation from a piece still in progress. A Last Dance for Leonard Cohen 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I wonder, as he gets older, and life seems more frail, if he finds this kind of song harder to sing. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z The by-now old and frail dog wags his tail to greet his master for whom he had patiently waited, and then promptly dies. Traveling through the pandemic in the company of dogs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I was awed by him, and I remember less the specifics of what he said than his demeanor, which was generous; he was somewhat frail but still hearty. When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Masur seemed rather frail, with a shaking left hand, but summoned some bold gestures while conducting, without scores, the remaining two works on the program: “Les Préludes” and Brahms’s First Symphony. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z Meanwhile, I had just shelled out $25 to cuddle with a frail guy. In the New Year, More Cuddling 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Reiner now appears, notably frailer than Brooks, and walks in slowly with some assistance. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z There are people hiding in corners and in plain sight and a frail, young punk who is fighting, crying, and riding her way through life. Trent Reznor's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: More than Just a Soundtrack 2011-12-13T11:58:10Z A red strapless dress with an exaggerated tulip shape opened the show, its large organza ruffles imitating the frail petals of a flower. Flights of fancy at Day 2 of London Fashion Week 2012-09-15T18:24:10Z Mr. Schuller, who founded this festival in 1964, is 86, and he looked thin and frail when he led the center’s superb student ensemble in a program of Ives chamber music on Saturday evening. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z When he exalts, though, he now does so in a frail, quivering voice. Jerry Lee Lewis and Pat Boone spread their religions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z |
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