Word: gauntly
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...have been wheelchair bound, gaunt and pale after almost four years in prison, but Malaysia's former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had lost none of his fire when he appeared in the country's highest court on July 10 to make a last-chance bid for freedom. In proceedings lasting barely 20 minutes, Chief Justice Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah announced the court had unanimously rejected Anwar's final appeal against his conviction and six-year sentence for tampering with a police investigation. In response, the 54-year old Anwar lashed out at his persecutors, calling the decision a "horrendous betrayal...
...well as the charity Music for All Seasons, which takes live music into hospitals, homes for the elderly and prisons. In his last public appearance, to receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) from Prince Charles, Moore was confined to a wheelchair. In photos he was gray, gaunt, stark, with none of the irrepressible whimsy that marked his on-screen lives...
...true measure of the man. As we did, he seemed to shrink on sight, tediously repeating his deeply held belief that the world would rejoice as America burned. But America wasn't burning and the world wasn't rejoicing and wasn't Osama starting to look a bit gaunt, muttering his threats into his camcorder as his followers scattered and his sponsors fell...
...life and the greater significance of the global AIDS crisis. Three life-size portraits of General Idea’s Jorge Zontal, weeks before his own death, rest against the wall. Zontal’s father was an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, and Zontal believed that his gaunt, diseased ravaged body must have resembled his father’s own broken visage on liberation day. Bronson “had to act as his mirror in order that he could look ‘normal,’” as Zontal’s blindness in the later...
...newly diminished body, his slender arms and gaunt cheeks belie his exuberance. He doesn't look like he has been eating much. This gentle incarceration in the Veteran's Hospital has reduced even his hunger. It is as if his girth has shrunk to fit his confinement. His aching knees give him the peg-legged gait of an ageing cowboy who has been riding too long. He looks out at the world through bloodshot eyes...