Word: frailing
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...Ritt is a perfectly lousy director. Some of the scenes are indistinguishable from those taped on stage for the Ed Sullivan show. When Ritt wants the audience to know that a crowd is present, he frames a few hundred thousand people cheering. Period. When he wants to emphasize the "frail nobility" and "still small voice" of a group of blacks praying for Johnson before the stadium in Reno, he sticks them in what suddenly seems to be a ghost town, and pans slowly, portentously, to the white-filled stadium. He handles his fight scenes-what there is of them-clumsily...
...complete control over mind and body and loyalty to the Emperor. At 18, he felt an almost erotic fascination with the death that, he was certain, awaited him when he would be drafted. But his wish to die for the Emperor was thwarted by a weak body and a frail constitution...
...light of such criticism, Mendoza may have unwittingly helped the papal cause with his abortive assassination attempt. As most such attempts do, it focused both attention and sympathy on the intended victim-in this case a frail, determined man who means somehow to be a leader in an increasingly disjointed world. His exhortations on peace and international generosity seem to have borne little fruit, and he apparently hopes that his own concerned presence may somehow make his message mean more...
...wrote. "There can be no prestige without mystery, for we have little reverence for that which we know too well." De Gaulle rarely granted private press interviews and seldom appeared in public. At his press conferences, held about every six months, 1,000 or so journalists would sit on frail gilded chairs in an ornate reception hall in the Elysée as De Gaulle answered the questions that suited him and invariably passed over the others...
Even though the trial was deliberately held far away in the Ural Mountains, details leaked out. It was learned that Amalric, frail and hollow-cheeked, had pleaded not guilty and declared the trial illegal in a one-hour statement to the court. Amalric's friends fear he may not survive his harsh sentence, for he suffers from heart disease. His wife Giselle, in a statement given to Western correspondents, said: "I know that my husband is strong in spirit and that neither the indictment nor the sentence can break him spiritually. But I also know how weak his health...