Word: frailness
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enlisted a friend and fellow writer to visit each day so they could write their respective novels together. At times, the frail author slept 16 hours a day, waking for a few hours to write, then dozing again. But her mother Faye and sister Laurie are convinced that writing distracted Williams from her illness and kept her focused on living. "It's unfortunate that it took cancer to push Stephanie to write her novel, but it was so inspiring to everyone around her," Laurie says. "She never wavered over writing the book and getting it published...
However, one should never forget that Meloy is no frail waif of a performer. To close the main set, Meloy picked up his giant twelve-string and played through an extended version of the epic, 10-minute-long Castaways and Cutouts finale, “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade.” During the transcendent bridge that transitions between the song’s two parts, Colin sat himself down on the stage and turned his eyes downward to his guitar, strumming one single riff over and over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation...
...frail. The most famous reaction to disaster is that poignant cry from a radio reporter sent to cover the landing of the airship Hindenburg in New Jersey in 1937. Suddenly it goes up in flames. Bodies burn and fall pitiably. "Oh, the humanity!" Everyone has heard the cry, but it is puzzling. It has little logical meaning. It is but the primal expression of anguished fellow feeling for the fate of unknown human forms falling from the sky. At times like that we literally feel the humanity...
...other time too. Beside the sorrow of our frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...
...senior citizen, Barry walks with a slight limp, coughs frequently and looks thinner and MORE frail. He?s in the process of finalizing his fourth divorce. Gone is the kente cloth and other African garb from his previous comeback to politics, replaced by dark slacks, a derby hat and a gray beard. Besides his drug and alcohol addictions, which Barry won?t talk about except to say he attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he also suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and prostate cancer. ?I don?t have health problems, I have health issues,? he snaps. And he?s also tired...