| 单词 | senility |
| 例句 | But in her senility she somehow accommodated the information. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At twenty-two, the age of thirty seems to bis the verge of senility. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hostile newspaper editorials spoke elliptically of encroaching senility. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was not only that she was old and exhausted, but overnight the house had plunged into a crisis of senility. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At forty- four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though his wife and the kook claimed that the senility routine was a front, he doubted that she would be able to write a letter like that. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Symptoms of second childhood— what do they call it?—senility? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, we can’t rejuvenate. But I’m very glad,” Dr. Shaw had concluded, “to have had this opportunity to see an example of senility in a human being. Thank you so much for calling me in.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z DRACO: Don’t play the senility card with us, old man. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I take note: artist instead of painter, the foreboding still, sign-pointing the way to senility. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We have advanced, it seems, from senility to dementia. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z He went on to recount that one critic of The Days of the Turbins described its author as "suffering from a dog-like senility". Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z The film betrays no hint of sapping energy, let alone senility; it is vigorous, subtle, daring and gorgeous. Is Hayao Miyazaki Gone With The Wind? 2013-09-02T19:29:07Z In the 18th century more than half the population had some form of disability, whether from birth or through the vagaries of life: hair lips, burns, scalds, senility, elephantisis, lameness, dwarfism. Rewind radio: Disability: A New History; Book of the Week – review 2013-06-01T17:00:03Z Mr. Méndez brings a fiery sense of an embattled soul to his performance as the conflicted priest, and Ms. Lopez inflects her lines with some wry humor, as Martina waffles between cogency and senility. Review: ‘Bathing in Moonlight’ Tests a Priest and Boundaries 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z For those who ask why anyone would write a musical about a subject as depressing as senility, the answer is in Mr. Redler and Ms. Cooper’s songs. | 'The Memory Show': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key 2010-08-26T22:46:00Z I once read that there’s scientific proof of a correlation between increased nostalgia and creeping senility. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It wasn’t senility melting the edges of form and letting the clowns and tragedians cross-pollinate; experience and mastery were doing that. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Colin, an unemployed man in his 50s, and his mother, Barbara, teetering on the edge of senility, have lived in Room 4 for nearly a year, trying to fend off impending indignity. Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Another frequently searched-for word was “dotard,” an antiquated term for an elderly person with senility. Feminism is word of the year, Merriam-Webster announces 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Our prisons are increasingly becoming nursing homes for seniors who no longer pose risk to society, but are being held through sickness and senility at enormous and unnecessary human and financial cost. Juvenile sentencing 2012-07-03T14:34:00Z But even with deference to Polonius’s senility, it’s a worthwhile exercise for contemporary audiences to remember that in the 17th century, it wasn’t a contradiction to celebrate truthfulness to oneself and meticulous attention to dress. At the Frick, clothes do make the man, and the woman 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Unlike in his cosmopolitan life in Chicago, he felt surrounded here by “an almost universal senility and decay.” In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Crosswords are good for you, and better and better for you the longer the bananas and dark chocolate keep you alive, because they help to ward off senility. Azed: a giant among crosswords 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Could senility be addling the already faith-attrited cognitive faculties of these judges? Marco Rubio’s real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith — and he wants to govern by it 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Cast out by the daughters to whom he bequeaths his realm, he now faces existence for what it truly is, a descent toward infirmity, senility and death. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre They fall asleep, repeat themselves and fumble with endless bottles of medications, creating a poignant air of senility. | A Digital Deconstruction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” 2014-02-24T21:04:36Z Death, but not even death so much as Alzheimer’s, premature senility. Stephen King, Not Just the Guy Who Makes Monsters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the film, Dern stars as Woody Grant, a retired, alcoholic veteran showing signs of senility. Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska' 2013-05-24T19:51:12Z What he feared particularly was evidently the living death of senility and/or physical helplessness. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z When Mr. Hollander and Mr. Marber discussed the revival, they knew they wanted to make Carr a more poignant figure, his younger self haunted by the war that wounded him, his older hassled by senility. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The new film betrays no hint of flagging energy, let alone senility; it is vigorous, subtle, thematically daring, visually gorgeous. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z His long pauses and sharp, monosyllabic responses wavered between a show of out-of-touch senility and suspenseful, careful consideration of his next chess move. Rupert Murdoch in the Commons: a terrifying power in decline 2011-07-19T19:51:18Z After the service, I tell Gallion about my mother’s passing, her plummet into senility and the unremitting fear that I will suffer the same fate. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “Twelve years of Washington is enough for any man … We’d help to cure senility, and seniority — both terrible legislative diseases.” This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Unfolding in simple yet wonderfully expressive hand-drawn frames, the film’s unsparingly observant plot depicts the slide into senility with empathy and imagination. ‘Wrinkles,’ an Animated Depiction of Nursing Home Lives 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He returns home to Queens to care for his father, who is slipping into a spiritually canted senility. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z "I want a dignified senility," Reggie says resignedly while considering this newcomer. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z But song repeatedly conquers senility — and rage, fear and helplessness — in “Allelujah!,” the sharp but slow new comedy of dismay by Britain’s most adored octogenarian man of letters, Alan Bennett. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z But “Spilt Milk” is also about memory, with Eulálio’s guilt and senility making him the personification of the unreliable narrator. Books Of the Times: ‘Spilt Milk’ by Chico Buarque 2012-12-23T22:01:52Z By then we’d given a name to what had become more than a habit of silence at the dinner table: senility. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z For Anthony, senility doesn’t creep, it pounces, and he responds by freezing until it retreats. ‘The Father’ Review: A Capricious Mind 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Mainstream art historians used to agree that Picasso peaked with his explorations of Analytic Cubism in the teens and that his career after World War II represents a long, sad decline into artistic senility. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z He is trying to capture, with almost clinical precision, the patterns of speech of a willful woman sliding into senility. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It could happen if a president is suffering from senility or some other illness that prevents them from recognizing their diminished capacity. Biden’s age and frequent bumbling revive talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to replace him 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z “I want to thank all the artists who came out tonight to help celebrate whatever it is we’re celebrating,” said Nelson, feigning senility and getting a laugh. Willie Nelson inhales the love at 90th birthday concert 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z But don’t count on it to ward off senility. Column: Brain-twisted or brain-washed — can crossword puzzles and word games sharpen memory? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z He has been accused of senility, stupidity and a wide spectrum of other incompetencies. Biden is now America's first octogenarian president. Here's what that means 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z In the distorted mirrors of social media commentary, every slip is magnified into supposed proof of senility. Biden at 80: A ‘respecter of fate’ mulls 2nd White House bid 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Is this a sign of senility, or is she being a bully? Advice | Ask Amy: The man I’m dating isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Prior Vital Dufour, who was ordained Cardinal of the Catholic church by Pope Clement in 1313, once listed 40 of the virtues of Armagnac including: "It renders man joyous, preserves youth and retards senility." Happy and Glorious: Royal collectables up for auction 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z But “‘senility’ comes up a lot,” Dr. Levy said recently, “and a lot of physical infirmity and decline: ‘stooped over,’ ‘sick,’ ‘decrepit.’ Exploring the Health Effects of Ageism 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z “The interests of Polish citizens are being sacrificed for Russophobia by these talentless politicians and their puppeteers from across the ocean with clear signs of senility,” he said in a Telegram post. Ukraine rejects Moscow’s surrender demand amid exodus of refugees, growing death toll 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z This week while President Biden’s senility and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lies continued to bump and swirl around in the toilet bowl of our daily news, another headline caught my attention. Disrespectful Aaron Rodgers leads a millennial generation of chronological snobs 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Fed Up: This behavior could be a sign of senility, certainly if you have asked “Charlotte” not to belittle and correct you and she continues to do so. Advice | Ask Amy: The man I’m dating isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z An 1887 Times story praised Southern California as “a mecca for sick pilgrims,” its climate a miracle treatment for hay fever, asthma, even senility. Go ahead and rub L.A.'s winter sunshine in people's faces. We've been doing it forever 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z This is not stupid incompetence or doddering senility. Biden’s administrative state launches war on America 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Hal is a very grateful man, as indeed I am, as I approach senility,” Plummer said of his octogenarian character who comes out as gay. Christopher Plummer, Oscar-winning star of film and stage, dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z She is in the early stages of senility, her family said, and it was a little unclear what she was thinking, feeling, how much of it was confusion or sadness. After months of isolation, a ‘hug room’ lets Italian nursing home residents touch family for the first time 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z As the election draws near and he barnstorms the country at campaign rallies, he is making baseless claims that “Sleepy Joe” is suffering cognitive decline, senility or even dementia. The age of the elderly candidate: how two septuagenarians came to be running for president 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z And her defenders say critics confuse Ms. Feinstein’s patrician gentility for senility. Democrats, Facing Critical Supreme Court Battle, Worry Feinstein Is Not Up to the Task 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z And as for his alleged senility, Republicans have managed to set the bar so low for Biden that his chipper, inclusive and competently delivered acceptance speech sounded like a minor miracle. Hits and misses from the conventions 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In his own man-childish way, Trump thought he was proving his point about senility and sharpness and toughness. Trump's sweaty Fox News interview shows his 2020 chances melting away | Richard Wolffe 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Whatever his deficiencies, including a certain amount of senility, that is a pivotal electoral card to hold. Five lessons for US Democrats from Boris Johnson’s victory in the UK 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z People cultivate a younger identity to fend off stereotypes of frailty and senility, said David Weiss, a life span psychologist at the University of Leipzig. You’re Only as Old as You Feel 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z At 70, Donald Trump was the oldest person elected to the US presidency and from his inauguration day rumours of possible senility have hung over the White House. Age should be no barrier to high office. Worn-out ideas are another matter | David Olusoga 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Despite what had seemed to be groundbreaking discoveries in the basic genetics and pathology of dementia, no cure or even promising treatment for senility, as it once was called, is in sight. Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z I do not want to have to worry about if my president will suffer from senility or be too sick to step up for our country. In Scranton, College Students Give High Marks to Biden’s First Campaign Speech 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z At the time, Trump mocked Kim as “Little Rocket Man,” while Kim said Trump was a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard,” a word suggesting senility. ‘We fell in love’: Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s not that I wasn’t moved by Lonergan’s autobiographical drama, written to preserve the memory of his grandmother as senility clouds her mind and her family struggles to care for her. Critic's Notebook: Star turns that serve the Broadway play — Elaine May, Daniel Radcliffe and Janet McTeer show how it's done 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Galen’s more nuanced concept subdivided the final stage of his lifespan model into three phases of unspecified length, from active old age to senility. Longevity examined: an ancient Greek’s very modern views on ageing 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z And another pol leaves the scene as indications of senility and mental atrophy show that his decision has come a few ticks of the clock too late. Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator, to Retire, Opening Path for Mitt Romney 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Traumatic brain injuries, migraine headaches and even senility were lumped together as mental illness. Cousins find great-great-grandma’s grave in Hastings 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Then whether due to senility, stress, greed, ambition or the onset of mental illness, committed a series of acts as a civilian that showed incredibly poor judgement. Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. and Will Cooperate With Russia Inquiry 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z She is deaf and lost in the fog of senility. Never Envy the Richest Woman in the World 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Sorry that I missed it, but you must realize that I have a case of galloping senility and can barely remember my name. Miriam Marx Allen, daughter of Groucho Marx who turned his letters into a revealing life story 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Even if you aren’t elderly, your body is home to agents of senility—frail and damaged cells that age us and promote disease. Molecule kills elderly cells, reduces signs of aging in mice 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Paleontologists interpreted triceratops's massive size, heavy bony frills and extravagant horns as evidence that the animals were fatally overspecialized, a theory known as “racial senility.” This triceratops is a Smithsonian icon. Now he’ll be fed to a T. rex. 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him. Did George Orwell shoot an elephant? His 1936 'confession' – and what it might mean 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z I’ve had this conversation with all of my closest friends, most of whom have seen parents through years of senility or severe decline. Dealing With Ma’s Dementia, and That Trip Out West 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z She finally died in the flat above the shop she had lived in for 64 years of senility, low blood pressure and bronchitis in 1939, aged 84. Who inspired Roald Dahl's Mrs Pratchett character? - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z America’s “most widespread age-related disease,” Tom Wolfe has written, “was not senility but juvenility. The social ideal was to look 23 and dress 13.” The greatness of Vin Scully: baseball’s storyteller, our friend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Old people are "senior citizens", their senility assumed; they are considered "cute", childlike, and condescended to. As More Older People Seek Work, They Tend to Be Put Into ‘Old-Person’ Jobs 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Eight-hour stretches of tending to residents with senility or Alzheimer’s would leave him sapped with little time to spend with his three children. In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Or just a man aging into senility, eating the ghost food of his younger, forgotten self? Judge John Hodgman on Claiming Unlabeled Freezer Food 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Current trajectories threaten science with drowning in the noise of its own rising productivity, a future that Price described as “senility”. The pressure to publish pushes down quality 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “Suicide, nervous breakdown, cancer, sexual deadness, heart attack, alcoholism, senility at 50. Slow death, fast death. DEATH.” Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Ellison’s grandmother, Esther Ellison, died in her late 70s of what people then simply called senility. Bellevue family donates $6M to UW for Alzheimer’s research 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z But the reorganization didn’t include the A.P.S.A.’s most important suggestions: changing the rigid next-in-line “senility system” of chairmanships, reducing the power of the Rules Committee, taming the filibuster with a less onerous cloture rule. The Blight of Bipartisanship 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam says the woman who founded the shelter where about 600 people were rescued shows "symptoms characteristic of senility." Mexico declares group home owner mentally unfit 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z A doctor who examined him wrote that he “wanders around naked at night” and suffers from senility. Oregon mental hospital to honor ‘forgotten souls’ 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z A doctor who examined him wrote that he "wanders around naked at night" and suffers from senility. Oregon mental hospital to honor 'forgotten souls' 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z My dictionary, for instance, defines dotage as a “feeble and childish state due to old age; senility.” Barbara Walters is older, sure, but not senile Even modest amounts of exercise protect against diseases ranging from diabetes and osteoporosis to heart attacks and senility. The epigenetics of fat: Altered states 2013-07-11T14:58:10Z But why, and does studying in school also help health people resist senility in old age? School Work Prevents Senile Dementia 2013-07-04T15:15:18.937Z When that did not happen, Mr. Tally wrote, "impending senility and failing health didn't mean that he should quit politics." City Room: When the Vice Presidency Was a Job for New Yorkers 2012-08-27T17:01:02Z “One of the advantages of senility is you forget what you said,” Sununu said. Republicans defy a gathering storm 2012-08-26T23:24:00Z At the same time Juliette was allowed to act the soubrettes; her father was too much afraid of the leading lady to play any tricks of suddenly imposed senility with her. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z She was still young enough to conceive all people over fifty merged in contemporary senility. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z He stood alone on the stairs, looking down on the invaders, and smiling--smiling, with everything of senility and frivolity gone from his face, and only the courage of his caste left. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z As for golf—that is a prelude to senility, or the antechamber to an undertaker's establishment. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This perpetual suggestion of his senility was another trick of Eleanor's that he deplored; dash it, he was two years younger than George, whom she called Georgieboy. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Only approaching senility could excuse this prodigal effusion of what is really almost maternal lust. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Postum does taste like a ferociously mild coffee—a coffee reduced to second childhood, the prattle of senility. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Foremost among them was Mother Chattox, the head of the anti-Dundike faction—‘a very old, withered, spent, and decrepit creature,’ whose sight was almost gone, and whose lips chattered with the meaningless babble of senility. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z "I have got myself—you can guess by what denials and sacrifice and fights—into the shape where the fear of senility, of loss or depreciation of my powers, is reduced to the irreducible minimum." Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z She noted in her book on adolescence that humans’ closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee, loses curiosity at 5 or 6, but that humans continue exploring, investigating and inventing until the onset of senility. Louise J. Kaplan, Psychoanalyst and Author, Dies at 82 2012-01-17T04:47:21Z Eld, eld, n. old age, senility: former times, antiquity. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The old peaceful Free Trade, he says, shows signs of senility. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z But when the blade was withdrawn from his grasp he sank ever lower into the second childhood of senility. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z It is senility; that is to say, it is, though here abnormally magnified, an essentially normal phenomenon. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z His garments, in an advanced state of senility, exuded cinders at every pore. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z His Pantalone recalls the Cortesani, described in a chapter of the Memoirs; but a touch of senility has been added, which lends comic weakness to the type. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z "Very well, my gillyflower, very well," piped senility, "but don't 'ee take on, my little blue love-in-a-mist, happen 'tis no more than a broken leg has overtook your husband." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Theirs was no passing in gradual waning of strength and quiet dissolution; not even in senility. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z There were no signs of childishness in his almost infantile compositions, or of senility in his latest productions. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Reached by telephone, Mr. Matsumoto, now 84, declined to be interviewed, saying he was suffering from “depression” and “senility.” Japan Revives Kamaishi Breakwater That Crumpled in Tsunami 2011-11-03T02:32:14Z The eternal will to live and inability to die is, however, in itself already a sign of senility of emotion. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z It was neither delirium nor senility that revived his faith. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z They are anemic, short of breath on exertion, have the appearance and show the signs of senility. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z No clearly defined external characteristics of senility were discovered in the populations studied. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z When one is in one’s teens forty appears senility; when one approaches forty it wears quite another aspect,—a comfortably matured, youthful aspect compared with which the teens are puerile. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Recently a Swedish friend told me how her father had slipped gradually into senility. When a sportsman's elk-hunting days are over 2011-08-25T22:00:03Z And here is the lachrymose Ranevskaya and the other owners of “The Cherry Orchard,” egotistical like children, with the flabbiness of senility. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z For a culture with an ageing population like ours, Jung offers a vision of the glories of growing old, seeing it as a path to wisdom rather than a decline into senility. What would Carl Jung make of 2011? 2011-06-06T09:50:40Z In man, from about the third year onwards, further growth—though an absolutely necessary adaptation to the environment—is to some extent growth in degeneration and senility. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z But the Inca, whose eyes though old were shrewd, and who showed none of the senility of age, lifted his hand. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z More recently we noted a marked and rapid downturn in her behaviour and her demeanour, and she appeared to be ageing very rapidly and possibly showing signs of senility. Polar bear Mercedes put to sleep 2011-04-15T10:28:39Z And this is the man they accuse of senility and weak intellect! Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z "Perhaps your Lordship would rather shift the charge of senility against the Government which appoints such an officer," said Heffernan, maliciously. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z His troubles are not the troubles of senility and exhaustion but of increasing and still undisciplined strength. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z They wrinkle the brow and bring on decrepitude, senility and grey hairs faster than Time himself can possibly whirl bodies graveward. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z They had parted in the prime of life, stalwart, handsome men, and they came face to face in their senility. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z Poor old General Winfield Scott was then verging toward senility, and second childhood, and had contributed no little, perhaps, to Mr. Lincoln’s alarm. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Such a creature harries the scholastic profession into premature senility. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Add to this reportage that is increasingly presented with zero context, and it's clear that journalism is sowing mass senility. Why are we so willing to repeat history's mistakes? 2010-08-21T00:21:00Z He helped establish, for example, that senility is not inevitable with aging. Robert Butler, Aging Expert, Is Dead at 83 2010-07-07T04:44:00Z Butler was instrumental in research that established that senility was not inevitable with aging, but rather a consequence of disease, according to the longevity center website. Robert Butler, who coined 'ageism,' dies at 83 2010-07-06T15:59:00Z Unless my senility's deceiving me, wasn't that back in the late 1890s or thereabouts? Denmark v Cameroon ? live! 2010-06-19T17:28:00Z Hoarding can also arise in connection with senility, injuries to the brain’s frontal lobes and Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder whose symptoms may include low intelligence. Book Review - Stuff - Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - By Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee 2010-04-25T03:43:00Z As New York Magazine reported in November, a new crop of drugs has been associated with early aging and senility. Ray Gosling, AIDS, and Euthanasia 2010-02-19T15:29:00Z His immeasurable pride made him hide a stiffening of the joints under the forced jauntiness of his step, while a trembling of the head became in him only a sort of debonair senility at worst. Life on the Stage Again the doubt of her senility attacked him. The Gray Mask To Richardson, Young addressed, in 1759, a letter on Original Composition, which betrays no symptoms of senility, but is full of vigorous and striking remark. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The old man would not say a word, and his captor, balked of chastisement by his evident senility, let him shamble off into the waste. Carnival And he had shrunk and shriveled with approaching senility. Quest of the Golden Ape "No evidence of mental senility," it said in part. The Impossible Voyage Home Puberty and the approach of senility are pointed out as times when genesiac symptoms manifest themselves. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists In fact, senility as it is called can bring childish nonsense. Black Man's Burden "Jupiter Tonans—or Plato," said Bingham, "and in progressive stages of senility." The New Warden It was ridiculous, but Osborne’s laugh grated, and I welcomed Chandler’s interrupting question, even though it pronounced sentence on my senility. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients The fires of youth burn fiercely into the natural sequence of maturity's steady glow and senility's ashes. The Song of the Wolf He gave it as his opinion40 that senility was caused partly by auto-intoxication or by the poison derived from putrefactive micro-organisms which inhabit the digestive track. The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente How would his sad old heart have been torn could he have foreseen that in the weakness of senility he would expose to the 'impious vulgar' all the most sacred secrets of his home life! Home Life of Great Authors And finally, in the senility of my dotage I conned myself into believing I could bluff it out; at the worst, I could prove my innocence easily enough. The Bandbox No old age pensions, no old folks' homes, no senility. Anything You Can Do! It is the contrast between the simplicity of childhood and of senility, between the simplicity of a race dowered with many-sided genius and of a race dowered with but one-sided genius. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe There was in the old man’s high-pitched voice a good deal of the squeak, but little of the quaver, of senility. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Precocious greyness and baldness are common in the insane criminals, and cretins, on the contrary, show these initial signs of senility at a much later period than normal persons. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso His bowed figure was not the result of weakness or senility, it was chiefly the result of great height and the slouching gait of one who has done much slow tramping. The Hound From The North Mr Edwards, when going away, again recurred to his consciousness of senility, and looking full in Johnson's face, said to him, "You'll find in Dr Young, 'O my coevals! remnants of yourselves.'" James Boswell Famous Scots Series He was not an imposing figure, though of large frame, being fat and puffy, with a heavy look about the eyes, and a general appearance of senility. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War The moss of senility is covering the bloom of youth and the honor of youth.’” 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry Precocity in crime is a characteristic of born criminals, and puberty and senility have their peculiar offences, as have the extremes of poverty and wealth. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Young blood will be infused, and perhaps senility will be thrown overboard, or sent to the Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 But the idea is absurd, and no man can seriously entertain it whom an inveterate scepticism has not smitten with the extreme of senility or idiotcy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Am I before the savage infancy of a people, or the spent senility of a race, lost sight of in the course of centuries? My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The lower part of the face was covered by a long but sparse moustache, through which at times could be discerned that terrible protrusion of the upper lip that seems the herald of senility. A Modern Mercenary It’s maddening to think that the law allows a man to ruin his relations because senility has weakened his intellect.” The Scarlet Feather It seems that genuine staff duties are something altogether unknown to the military senility of the army. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Mr. Moore, knowing the aspirant's record and reputation, thought that this portended senility. A Man of Two Countries In his prime he must have been a very colossus of strength and stature, and even now, in his senility, the muscles that had made terrible those great limbs could be plainly traced. The Doomsman Although he was seventy years old, he seemed endowed with manly vigour, and nothing in him showed decadence into senility. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt There are two kinds of old age or senility. Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales One sees their men rapidly sink into the softness and incapacity of senility, when a more bracing life would have kept them good for half-a-dozen years longer. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) But while he was correct in the etiology of senility, he was crudely primeval in the therapeutics of it. John Jones's Dollar Over his head he held a big Roman lamp, with three wicks, that cast strange shadows on his face,—a face that was harmless in its senility, but intolerably sad. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Storms are impious there: the ancient oaks and birches and chestnuts must wail and protest, like dotards wakened from senility to cruel hours of actual life. The Dukeries The Marquis de Fongereues is only sixty, but his white hair, his wrinkles, and the sad senility of his countenance gave him the appearance of an octogenarian. The Son of Monte-Cristo It is like the evidence of senility in some grand statesman who has outlived his vigour. The Tapestry Book We know, from a study of our vast collection of Egyptian Papyri and Carnegie Library books, that this Metchnikoff promulgated the theory that old age—or rather senility—was caused by colon-bacillus. John Jones's Dollar First came the Spurt, of Tromsö, a Norwegian tramp of dissolute and chastened appearance, whose deliberate, plodding gait and general air of senility belied her name, or at any rate the English meaning of it. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories From vigour he had passed suddenly into senility. Grey Town An Australian Story But the old man, encased in senility, was ill to disturb; he was intent on nothing but the work before him; it was mechanical and soothing, and occupied his whole mind. The House with the Green Shutters Atmu, Tum or Tmu, was the symbol of the eternal night or darkness of Chaos, which preceded the emanation of light, it was the type of senility and absolute death, the negative and end. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. The rationale behind the purchase had been to arrest fleeing sanity and, if anyone had witnessed this early, disconcerted behavior, to have that moment of senility's waning be expunged from human minds. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais But I do not believe that in this or any other of the foregoing speeches of Polonius, Shakespeare meant to bring out the senility or weakness of that personage's mind. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Many theories have been advanced regarding the cause of senility. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science As it is now, their abilities taper off at sixty and they reach senility at seventy or eighty. Adaptation Also, why this new pose, this cheap championship of senility? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Telling herself that the only means to forfend senility was to be actively engaged in mental diversions, she nonetheless sought any diversion that she could, to ignore, if not discomfit, this paranoid erosion of sanity. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais No old-age pensions, no old folks' homes, no senility. Anything You Can Do ... In the case of certain diseases we find symptoms, which look like precocious senility, due to the poison of the disease. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science He walked out, still mumbling inarticulately and I sat there saddened that a man once alert and vigorous as the general should have come at last to senility and an enfeebled mind. Greener Than You Think But observe the senility of this note in Randall's diary: 'Martha comes regularly to me now, and I am happy in a renewed sense of her companionship. The Tyranny of the Dark Caldwell wasn't more than twenty-two or three, but the screen's opalescence silvered his hair and misted the outlines of his jaw, giving him an aspect of senility. The Sky Trap It was plain that the notion of Lattimore’s continued and uninterrupted progress was one to which he would cling with the mild and unreasoning stubbornness of gentlemanly senility. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic When we have reduced or abolished such causes of precocious senility as intemperance and disease, it will no longer be necessary to give pensions at the age of sixty or seventy years. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science In a second, save for her wicked black eyes, which smouldered like two sparks of fire under her drooping lids, she became a picture of stupidity and senility. The Bishop's Secret Pratt, who had been waiting for hours with the angry impatience of senility, met them at the door, truculent as a terrier. The Tyranny of the Dark A senility dependent for its social and domestic requirements on condescending nephews and nieces, or even more distant relations! Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women There is, to my mind, something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day. The Red Room So is it with nations, as with men who have passed the age of their strength, and reached the period of senility and second childhood. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse And this is why we find almost everywhere in the world a growing dissatisfaction with the prevalent system of teaching, which betrays the encroachment of senility and worldly prudence over pure intellect. Creative Unity Incomparably small, on the other hand, is the aid which psychotherapy can offer in cases of real destructions in the brain, as in the case of tumors, hemorrhage, paresis or the degeneration by senility. Psychotherapy They rolled over one another, their faces contorted with a miniature senility. Erik Dorn Here Zulime and I, young and strong, were living in the midst of an almost universal senility and decay. A Daughter of the Middle Border The new is bright and unfrayed; it has not yet suffered senility and decay. Human Traits and their Social Significance But my condition made such heavy demands upon my thoughts that I had very much less attention to give to this surprising phenomenon of senility than its uncommon merits deserved. The Frozen Pirate Cancer is emphatically a disease of senility, of age; but, as Roger Williams has pointed out in his admirable monograph, not of "completed" senility. Preventable Diseases Broken words—curses that the helpless lips refused to ratify; terrible outbursts of wrath, mingled with the piteous moan of senility. Agatha's Husband A Novel Dawn's judgments were remorseless, as becoming clean-souled, fearless youth as yet unacquainted with the great gulf 'twixt the ideal and real, and untainted by that charity and complaisance which, like senility, come with advancing years. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn To you youngsters my advanced age of fifty-two represents senility. Subspace Survivors His choler, though none the less sporadic, developed a quality which had some of the characteristics of senility; and yet he was still in his prime, and passed for a sound man. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People In youth, all energy; in prime of life, all enterprise and vigour; in senility, all weakness and second childhood. The King's Own He does not seem to have taken undue credit to himself; there is no querulousness, or egotism, or=414= senility in his letters, but a delightful tranquillity of spirit. Benjamin Franklin After relieving the child of feelings of guilt, the conduct of the older offender must be explained in terms of his senility or his mental state. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Most lovers are alike in this—in youth, in middle age, in senility. The Romance of an Old Fool Fifth: Actual old age, senility, failure of physical and mental power, should be postponed in each case as long as possible by active measures of mental and moral discipline consciously undertaken by personal effort. The Family and it's Members The weight of senility relaxed from Sir Philip sufficiently to permit him to talk to his guest with some brightness. The Hand in the Dark It is not the tragedy of senility which his extreme age pictures, nor yet the hump upon his back, which stirs my note of pain. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches If she attributed any thoughts to that fine old head they were ambling thoughts, bordering, perhaps, on senility. Gigolo Spain, England and, in the 16th century, iv, 81; senility of, iii, 232; under the rule of Philip II, vi, 171; dominion in the Netherlands, iv, 81. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians From the failure of health in middle life comes the premature senility and the invalid weakness of old age. The Family and it's Members For he seemed to have laid aside that pleasant and garrulous senility which had awakened my dull conscience. Dross Even at the best, its component elements could only represent decrepitude and infirmity, degeneration and senility. Plain Facts for Old and Young The news was a blow that crushed Baranof almost to senility. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Now, as I have barely entered on my eighth lustre, I can only suppose that the great bitterness of my heart imparted to my face, for the moment, a helpless—perhaps imbecile—look of senility. Border and Bastille But the hallucinations which he nourished about himself were not all the outcome of senility. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study Those who accept that dogma argue that all that is necessary in order to predict the fate of a nation is a correct calculation of its present age; whether of childhood, manhood, or senility. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity So I strike you as approaching senility, do I? North of Fifty-Three To mumble over the past, to live on the classics, however splendid, is senility. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought The Queen died about the age of seventy-six, as did King Edward at the same age, from grief and senility. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry The singer and speaker must drill to develop the voice, must drill to keep it in condition, and must drill to resist the encroachments of senility. Resonance in Singing and Speaking His blanket-clad shoulders, though gay with color, were bowed with senility, a mockery of the vaunting splendor which glared out in vivid stripes. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Egypt was then in the first stage of senility, entering upon her decline, for her best people had settled in the cities, and this completes the cycle and spells deterioration. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers If you think that I am marrying Anne because I love her, or because I am in my dotage and afflicted with senility, you are very much mistaken. From the Housetops The senility of senility . this would be our state of life in the eyes of the Hellenes. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 You think the old man is approaching senility. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Flamboyant youth, calculating middle age, doddering senility, all these were there, all treading on one another's heels, to reap and be reaped. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 A few of our great writers—Ruskin and Tennyson, for example—have enjoyed the applause accorded to senility by a people usually timid of brilliancy and strength, when it is contemporary. Masques & Phases And all that did happen was nothing more than a change from late manhood to early senility complicated by a house-moving, bringing with it new hobbies and occupations. Art At the thought of the premature senility that had robbed her of these accomplishments now that she was seventeen she began again to weep.... The Judge I do not wonder that you look upon all this as the ravings of a man on the verge of senility. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow The long fingers drummed ceaselessly and the head teetered; for thus senility approaches. The Grey Cloak Then must commence his senility; then he would begin to break up. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Mr. Talbot also interviewed Hindenberg, whom he found a "broken-down, inconsequential, garrulous example of senility" Ludendorff, who was very stiff and proud and rude; and the fianc�e of the man who sank the Lusitania. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. He seeks narrow and ill-smelling streets where the houses nod at each other, as if in the last stages of senility, muttering mysterious reminiscences of old tragedies. Humanly Speaking And harder to leave than these cherished bits of landscape had been the old house Runnymede, that always seemed dozing in the peaceful comatose of senility. Judith of the Plains And this son of mine, he is following the game path through which I passed … to this, palsy and senility! The Grey Cloak And, O king, neither doth senility nor hunger, nor thirst, nor death, nor fear afflict any one at that place. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Its calm is not the result either of senility or failure. Success (Second Edition) She did not guess the import of the industries in Mrs. Owen's kitchen, as reported through various agencies; they were merely a new idiosyncracy of her aunt's old age, a deplorable manifestation of senility. A Hoosier Chronicle He was, he thought contemptuously, growing soft; senility was diluting his fibre, blurring his inner vision. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Carlyle's senility was not enviable, and even that sturdy veteran Stratford Canning* told Gladstone that longevity was "not a blessing." The Life of Froude An old white-bearded man sat huddled in one of the shadowy corners, weeping the tears of senility, and a tall, dust-colored woman, whom I rightly took to be Mrs. Hikes, stood stolidly watching the doctor. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories This counsel confuses the stages of imperfect development with the stage of incipient decay; it ascribes to the childishness of approaching senility the hopes which are proper to the childishness of early youth. England's Case Against Home Rule Greece, the most intellectual of all nations of all times, died in mental senility of moral paralysis. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 It was left to their grandfathers and their sons; and thus senility and youth preponderated in the present company. Children of the Mist There is no trace of senility in his professorial utterances. The Life of Froude The senility of the rancher was painfully apparent. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest A surplus of calcium brings on senility, as noted above. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Here was not merely senility, but ignoble and repulsive senility. Queed Every country, no doubt, has its putrescent spots caused by premature senility, but no country so far has shown itself as wholly crumbling in an age where the world is still young. The Living Present The Grand Master arose—I should have said the Reverend—his head nodding with senility, his beard white as a waterfall: he appeared to be eighty years of age at least. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 His senility appeared in every line of his face; in every movement of his shaking hands; in every glance of his bleared eyes. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest In old age these salts produce senility through deposit in the tissues, especially in the arteries. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family A case recently widely commented upon was that of a child of six years who showed every symptom of senility or old age, which could hardly be possible without having passed what we call "maturity." Cosmic Consciousness And she had grown fond of the aged dandy and his foolish ways—ways which seemed foolish because they were those of youth grafted upon senility. Saracinesca Thus, from the boisterous storms of youth, we glide upon senility. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Venturi points out that married women preserve a fresh voice to a more advanced age than spinsters, this being due to the precocious senility in the latter of an unused function. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy If Othello were not overtrustful, if Lear were not decadent in senility, they would not be doomed to die in the conflict that confronts them. The Theory of the Theatre Words came at last, high, cackling and cracked, like the voice of senility. Out of the Ashes These processes, like those of individual senility and death, are going on everywhere day by day. Civics: as Applied Sociology It did not walk; it shuffled, haltingly, with flexed knees and hanging shoulders, the strides measuring inches only—a grisly burlesque upon senility. Pardners The law is invoked, but the treachery of the wife induces the noble old man to put an end to the proceedings, after which he sinks into an indigent and pathetic senility. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 And as almost unconsciously she exulted in her own youth, and strength, delicate little poniards of tragic grief for Mrs. Maldon's helpless and withered senility seemed to stab through that personal pride. The Price of Love As a matter of fact, nowadays a half-century mark is no longer a badge of senility when a man has kept himself fit and treated himself right. Laugh and Live I thought then that moral senility could go no further, but you have got ahead of the American. What Dreams May Come From Washington, whom he charges with senility, down, there is hardly a man who ever crossed Randolph's path whom he has not assailed. George Washington, Volume II What is of interest to us is his attitude in the days of his vitality, not of his senility. Old and New Masters Presumes he to his sov'reign to prescribe The rustic precepts of senility? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes As old age comes on and the bodily functions decay, the mind decays also, until age passes into senility, and body and mind sink into second childhood. Annie Besant An Autobiography All trace of senility vanished, and with equal joyousness she responded 'Yes, it's indeed Rosamund!' Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert But he would believe that I have lost the glow, and that what seems to me to be gentle and beautiful experience is but the closing in of weariness and senility. The Silent Isle There is to my mind something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Terrible, almost ghastly, he stood there before them, the picture of bitter rage, of impotent, distorted senility. Where the Trail Divides Thus we find the works of most of them encumbered with the d�bris of their senility. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays He could not shake off the senility that was creeping over his spirit. The Torrent Entre Naranjos And I must depute the building of your monument to men of feeble minds which have been properly impaired by futile studies and senility. Figures of Earth Everywhere the impotence of senility—except in young America. The Wrong Twin His tardy literary schemes, too—fruit of his all but sapless senility—have absorbed more and more of his time and attention. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 The deep red hue of a frosty and vigorous senility still coloured their unwrinkled faces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 The fact of my presence had dropped like a pebble into the strange depths of that aged mind, and the waters of the ferocious egotism of senility had closed over it, and it was forgotten. Sacred and Profane Love It was assuredly not that degeneracy of senility which Mr. Balfour is inclined to postulate as an explanation of decadence. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace party, through all its masks, blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 By-and-by it will show every aspect of life in the same individual, from the earliest week to the last year of senility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 That is exactly what we get at present in our rich and consequently governing classes: they pass from juvenility to senility without ever touching maturity except in body. Treatise on Parents and Children One eye, of normal size, dim-brown and misty, bulged to the verge of popping out, and as if from senility wept copiously and continuously. The Red One From infancy to senility the fingerprints of an individual change only in size, except as injuries alter the loops and whorls. Tarzan of the Apes Henceforth your path leads downward, for every hour will sap your lusty strength, and every step be weaker than the last, until you sink into senility. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Peace's assumption of pitiable senility, sustained throughout the trial, though it imposed on Sir Henry Hawkins, failed to melt his heart. A Book of Remarkable Criminals But no one who had business dealings with him suspected him of senility or any degree of weakness. The Conflict A third volume will present his pleasing senility. Fanny Herself Not of age—merely of time; for here was no senility, no quavering or fretful lines. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation The East Seventeenth Street block, with its rows of houses, going down none too debonairly, from gentility to senility, showing a bud here and there. Star-Dust As Adam Patch never quite decided whether she referred to the advancing senility of his mind or to some private and psychic schema of her own, it cannot be said to have pleased him. The Beautiful and Damned She had again dropped into the low uncertain voice of aimless senility. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 And occasionally, in an access of further senility, he fumbled with his fingers at his mouth. With Edged Tools In favour of the hypothesis of senility is the fact, recorded by Phillips, that Milton "could not hear with patience any such thing when related to him." Milton One would naturally expect initiative to decrease in senility. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Hunger gave her eyes the fierceness of a famished beast and to her head the tremulous motion of senility. L'Assommoir He was asking for the understanding of the young; quite unaware of his senility, reaching out over half a century to try to touch the comprehension and sympathy of his daughter. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 But I do not believe that in this or any other of the foregoing speeches of Polonius, Shakspeare meant to bring out the senility or weakness of that personage's mind. Literary Remains, Volume 2 You've begun to splutter when you laugh, it's a sign of senility! The Possessed (The Devils) In man, from about the third year onward, further growth is to some extent growth in degeneration and senility.' The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day That invincible world power full of doddering senility! Shallow Soil The fifteenth, sixteenth, and to a certain extent the twelfth, show unmistakable signs of senility. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius I remember accosting a lad, anemic, shivering with the tertian, and marked by that untimely senility which is the sign-manual of malaria. Old Calabria Let me grow my own flowers, and watch over them from seedhood to senility. If I May His bicycle was now very old, and it is one of the concomitants of a bicycle’s senility that its free wheel should one day obstinately cease to be free. The History of Mr. Polly Long before she had completed her outward voyage, however, the senility of the Investigator had made itself uncomfortably evident. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Add to these conditions a nature congenitally without generous instincts, a narrow brain, and a sensual temperament, and we have gone far to account for the phenomenon which Berkeley finally, in his approaching senility, presented. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 And he also calls attention to apoplectic breakdown and premature senility. Mankind in the Making She outlived him and Haydn also, only to die in poverty and senility, far away in Hungary. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 Oldness -- N. oldness &c. adj.†; age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases He was indeed exceedingly old, foolish, and undignified in senility; and the louts were odiously jeering at his defenceless dotage, and a young policeman was obviously with the louts and against the aged, fatuous victim. Hilda Lessways When two men begin to "tell each other everything," they are hiking for senility. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others In the artificial growth the problem of senility and death is solved. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) "Do we play cards," he cried sourly, "or listen to the chatter of senility?" Dragon's blood Then all the other phenomena of old age steal back upon the old rat, and senility, firmly established in the saddle, rides him to the end. The Glands Regulating Personality In a twinkling his face changed from vacancy to shrewdness and from senility to purpose. Salute to Adventurers My senility does not take the form of insisting that the world shall cease to revolve upon its axis. The Head of the House of Coombe One, and the most important, is that the normal circulation of the blood does not succeed in freeing all the waste products of the tissues, and that this is the cause of senility and death. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) The ancient, being in a placid state of senility, courteously thanked me for my interest, and answered that she had been dead for forty-nine years, come September. A Fool and His Money Thus, after loss of the thyroid, the ridging effect characteristic of senility can be produced in one young as measured by his years. The Glands Regulating Personality A man who is beyond the first flush of adolescence and not yet in the last pallor of senility, has no business dallying with golf. A Fool There Was The older religions, grey in their senility, had no such bribe or threat to conjure with. God and my Neighbour And, as if to mock intelligence, Tradition raises the feeble cry of reminiscent senility, 'Back to the old paths!' The One Woman "Glad your senility has not affected that remnant of your common-sense," he declared. Kent Knowles: Quahaug Every gradient between premature senility and sex inversion is encountered. The Glands Regulating Personality I am getting nervous over possible senility—63 to-day, and nothing of your evergreen ways about me. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Assuming an air that I was tired and that I wanted to walk about in the cell, I staggered as from a quiver of senility in my legs, and pushed the clothes aside. The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Shirley drew him to the mirror, to make a closer study of the lines of senility and late hours. The Voice on the Wire If the latter, then existing species and their derivatives must perish in time, and the earth may be growing poorer in species, as M. Naudin supposes, through mere senility. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism You look upon him and see senility on a small scale, but with all its peculiarities: wrinkled skin, apathy, gray hair and all the rest of it. The Glands Regulating Personality Fossette, too, was nine years older, and her senility was offensive. The Old Wives' Tale The senility of the fellow's countenance, besides, was contradicted by the juvenescence of his eyes. The Beetle Is," explained Kennedy, "a chemical compound—one of the toxins secreted by intestinal bacteria and responsible for many of the symptoms of senility. The Dream Doctor I doubt this letter has more marks of senility than the one I announced at the beginning. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Yet it may unquestionably bring about definite retrogressive changes in the secondary sex characters: reduction or loss of virility, diminution of facial and body hair, and a general presenility or hastening of senility. The Glands Regulating Personality Nor is it any sign of originality, rather of senility, that in the Priestly Code the manna is not eaten raw, but boiled and baked. Prolegomena You have done me the honor to drink my health and to reassure me as to the inoffensiveness of approaching senility. Brewster's Millions Shaken into the last stage of senility by this alarm, she wiped tears from her flaccid cheeks, and moaned a few unintelligible words. Born in Exile Human nervous systems also deteriorate with age, especially those of people suffering from senility. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Picture to yourself," returned the editor, with slow emphasis, "a man who at his best was only a stolid country banker, and who now is sunk into fatuous senility. Our Friend the Charlatan The Examiner could not report him for lack of space; the Mercury complained of a headache caused by this "blatant youthfulness striving to emulate garrulous senility"—a phrase which moved Denzil to outrageous laughter. Denzil Quarrier From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator. Ulysses All that these sedatives accomplish is to produce in the course of time idiocy and the different forms of paralysis and premature senility. Nature Cure There are eating disorders, shingles, skin problems, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, senility, mental illness, addictions, chronic fatigue syndrome, aids. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Scarce a touch of senility sounded in her speech; she heard perfectly, indulged in no characteristic brusquerie of phrase, fulfilled every formality proper to the occasion. Our Friend the Charlatan History tells us that certain peoples, the Massagetae and others, used to kill their aged folk in order to spare them the miseries of senility. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Such irregularity perhaps most frequently occurs with valvular disease, especially mitral stenosis and in the muscular degenerations of senility, as fibrosis. Disturbances of the Heart O dear my son, better the senility of the eagle than the juvenility of the raven. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 There was also virtually no degenerative disease like heart attacks, hardening of the arteries, senility, cancer, arthritis. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor The time comes to every man, no matter how great a power he may be in society, when the general social opinion retires him for senility, and this time had come for Bromfield Corey. April Hopes Its hoary age is in danger of becoming but senility. The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 The tone was senile, but it was the senility of an educated man, and as the cultivated accents wavered forth, my mind changed in, regard to the position he held in the house. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange "It was a will drawn by an old man in his senility, and under your control." The Sleuth of St. James's Square There was something childish in those eyes, though it was not the childishness of senility. A Room with a View Age was to be honored, but senility was pitiable. Life of Stephen A. Douglas Senility—an ever more and more amiable senility—descended. Eminent Victorians Or was it merely an old man being struck down by senility in the midst of his life-task? The Mutiny of the Elsinore He had been called in, had found the woman dying of pure senility, had actually seen her pass away, and had signed the certificate in due form. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Is it a sign of senility, or half-thought-out ideas, or what? Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus To the tired student, the idea that he must give it up seemed sheer senility. The Education of Henry Adams However much they laughed at him for his premature senility he did not object to it. The Witch and other stories "It is the approach of senility," Mr. Sabin answered her. The Yellow Crayon Thus people will say that Spain has entered a final senility; they might as well say that Spain is losing all her teeth. What's Wrong with the World There was perfect unison of ill-grace and senility about them; their faces, as faded as their threadbare coats, as creased as their trousers, were worn-out, shrivelled-up, and puckered. Eugenie Grandet The whole government, from top to bottom, was rotten with the senility of what was antiquated and the instability of what was improvised. The Education of Henry Adams He observed that the brains of persons dying in old age were lighter than the average and gave visible evidence of atrophy, and he reasoned that such decay is a normal accompaniment of senility. A History of Science — Volume 4 He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes He washed his face with certain compounds, which gave it an appearance of forms of illness, and he played the senility of a centenarian to the life. The Lesser Bourgeoisie Mr. Edwards, when going away, again recurred to his consciousness of senility, and looking full in Johnson's face, said to him, 'You'll find in Dr. Young, "O my coevals! remnants of yourselves." Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood He had known for years that he must accept the régime, but he had known a great many other disagreeable certainties -- like age, senility, and death -- against which one made what little resistance one could. The Education of Henry Adams It would seem that we lawyers have taken insufficient account of the characteristics of senility. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Whether it take the form of a religion or of a philosophy, it is at once the sign and the cause of senility, decay, and death. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh Such weaknesses are resigned to women approaching senility, and to the more ignoble variety of women labourers. In Defense of Women The surgeon is familiar with the manifestations of every variety of the human emotions in the various stations of life, from infancy to senility, in health and in disease. Origin and Nature of Emotions Their senility was congenital, like Gladstone's Oxford training and High Church illusions, which caused wild eccentricities in his judgment. The Education of Henry Adams The distinguishing element in extreme old age, in senility, is the loss of power, and if we keep this in mind we shall be able to explain every phenomenon characteristic of this period. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Have the Titans sealed heaven, or died of old age, "exhibiting," as Gibbon says of them, "a deplorable instance of the senility of the human mind?" Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh Even in this age of emancipation, normal women have few serious transactions in life save with their husbands and potential husbands; the business of marriage is their dominant concern from adolescence to senility. In Defense of Women But the phraseology here seems to savour of extreme youth, or else senility. The Sportsman So I, too, affected not to recognize my enemy, and, putting on an idiotic senility, I, too, crawled in the dust toward the litter whining for mercy and charity. The Jacket (Star-Rover) I should like to add to what precedes, that senility presents fact and judgment together. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students These marks of senility do not astonish our modern minds in the picture of God, only because tradition and usage have blinded our eyes to the absurdity of a time-worn immortal. God the Invisible King The individual cases are considerably helped by the assumption that the mental organization of senility is essentially simplified and narrowed to a few types. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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