palsy

My Left Foot told the true story of an Irish man named Christy Brown, played by Day-Lewis, who was born with cerebral palsy and could control only his left foot.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

He said his son has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, and relies on assistance to live with dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Mr Hayayei, who had cerebral palsy, died at the scene.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

My brother, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally disabled, is two years older than I am.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

When either cold or excited, his palsy increased.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

That fall, a friend told the patient about a clinic at New York University that specialized in facial palsies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In the same manner in common palsies the inaction of the paralytic muscle seems not to be owing to defect of the stimulus of the will, but to exhaustion of sensorial power.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

The fear of losing won laurels probably palsies the brains of the commanders; at any rate it is certain that the inactivity of the Potomac army throws unsurpassed splendor on the annals of this war.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

He struggled with palsied hands to shield his exposed body with a thin towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021

In front of a billion or so viewers, Witz was palsied with pleasure.

From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014

On the spot, they decide to liberate Claude from the company of the palsied, demented, and wheelchair bound.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2013

Clutching its credit card in hands palsied with anticipation, Lost in Showbiz catches its breath long enough to advise: don't all subscribe at once, you'll crash their server!

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011

Faye Belle, palsied and gray-skinned, cannot remember her own age.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

That’s never happened before—hunting is a favorite pastime—and he sees the change in himself as just one more sign of the times’ palsying effect on the simplicity of the old ways.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

All jocund June with palsying terror thrills; Fashion sits frozen dead with staring eyes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892 by Various

But to such a one uncertainty is like a shock to the body, palsying the form and changing a strong arm into a nerveless, useless stick of bone and tissue.

From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Have we now escaped the inert and self-absorbed deity of Lucretius, only to fall into the palsying grasp of the tyrannous deity of Calvin?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick

Again palsying fear and ignoble selfishness tugged at his heart-strings, and he felt all his carefully cultivated resolutions weakening.

From The Red Acorn by John McElroy