frailness

Yet Mrs. Frisby thought that this had been the beginning of his frailness.

“Unfortunately, the issues of frailness and all are the Democrats trying to spin something that they didn’t like,” he said.

Rarely has he ever spoken this way, to a great assemblage of us, and I am struck both by the power of his voice and the frailness of his person.

The telescoping nature of collapse — from the frailness of the physical body to the tragedy of the national soul — lends these pages a loss that is both painfully intimate and disconsolately vast.

I much more enjoy the strangeness and the frailness of real people’s lives and then figuring out a way to make that into a story.