Word: frailness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn, not only forcing the frail-looking boy to miss school for a week or two every few months while he searches hospital by hospital for some relief, but dragging his uninsured family into debt when they should be benefiting from India's economic boom. Together, Abhishek's parents - his mother Sunita is a clerk...
...said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail. In movie terms it was an unfair fight, because Moore had the heavier artillery: not his arguments, necessarily, but his camera and the power of an editor over an actor...
...never thought it was the greatest place. Harvard, like Yale, like Southern New Hampshire Community College, like village schoolrooms in Iowa—in short, like any place at all where students meet—is littered with problems, many of them serious. But, rather than sullying the false, frail icon of Harvard perfection which so many believe unquestioningly in, these failures compose a part of Harvard’s identity, and, in a counterintuitive way, its greatness as well...
...Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame now seems impossibly frail, but in their time, vehicles like this prompted the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to exult that racing cars were more "beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace...
...When she saw Letterman picketing, Shore was crushed. "I watched him from the bay window here," she would recall years later, frail and shaking from a nervous disorder and sitting in the empty showroom at the Comedy Store. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton...