Word: frail
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...Spanish officialdom was concerned, the only times he had ever been indisposed were when he had a couple of teeth extracted and when he suffered a gunshot wound in the hand while hunting. Last week the government rushed out photographs showing the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) and frail general walking into the hospital without assistance, and doctors said his condition was not serious...
...known that the ophthalmologists who worked with him on the corneal transplants had revised the protocols for the study. But his explanation of the mouse painting, which he says he tried to discuss with Good that same day, makes little sense. Other aspects of Summerlin's defense seem frail indeed. It is difficult to support Summerlin's suspicion that Good, who had been his mentor at the University of Minnesota, turned on him and attempted to force him out of S.K.I.; as director of the institute, Good could have got rid of Summerlin without resorting to Machiavellian maneuvering...
...book, but along with such things as an especially treacly view of her husband's disposition and career that all but the most ardent Kennedy fans will find hard to swallow, the reader is offered much nourishment. He learns a good deal, for example, about the frail, "funny little boy" who became President; about J.F.K.'s older sister Rosemary, who was retarded from birth; about that conscientious younger brother Bob; about the hard work that marriage demands-even from the very rich...
...invitation, they confront you with their sexuality. Some are beautiful, yet that's not what attracts attention. These women are provocative because their individuality and intellectuality aren't stifled by unctuous idealization. The photographs are precisely detailed, untouched, and of theatrical intensity. One, called "Twinka," is confusing. A frail, attractive girl wearing a diaphanous dress crouches at the base of a gnarled redwood, one arm spanning her breast to clutch a low branch. But her uncanny expression could never be elicited or tolerated by a male photographer: her eyes bore straight out, wide and threatening...
Compared with a behemoth like Penn's John Engles, a burly 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore, Jenkins seems frail. Yet, he manages to withstand the buffeting, the sharp elbows and frayed tempers which are part of the rebounding chores...