Word: frailness
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When Sheen was small, the family moved to Peoria, 30 miles away. His father alternated between storekeeping and farming. Young Sheen was a frail boy who never ate much and sometimes annoyed his three brothers by curling up with a book rather than help with the chores. He was christened Peter John, and called P.J. as a boy, but he preferred Fulton (his mother's maiden name), and used it until it stuck. His father was a Roman Catholic who had drifted out of the Church but came back to it, and P.J. grew up in a good Catholic...
...illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small...
Miss Davis' real life husband, Gary Merrill, is better cast as a good samaritan who fumbles around with several lives. But these lives are only a series of soap operas which the producers string together with a very frail thread...
...first chapter of a novel called "Steven Morton." Sy Heifitz, the author, skillfully develops an interesting character albeit that most of the developments take place in bed. Through a series of failures that culminate in his imprisonment for being a conscientious objector, Steven Morton evolves as a tragic introvert, frail of body, afraid of intimacy. Simple touches make the story effective: two lovers whispering in the kitchen after a date, so as not to wake up the parents; the uneasy triteness of their conversation due to their fear of saying what they really feel. Heifitz tells his story...
Great & Humble. In King George's island kingdom and in the far reaches of his still vast dominions, there was a feeling of individual loss in the passing of this simple, decent man whose spare, frail person had embodied such personal endurance, such symbolic might. Far beyond the limits of his Commonwealth, in lands that offer Britain no more than grudging respect, great men and humble men paused to acknowledge the death of the British King...