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human frailty

noun as in human nature

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Exile and loss, battle and betrayal, disinheritance and vengeance, old age and human frailty — of all the grandeur and pathos of “King Lear,” one theme had always stood out for him.

I think what’s more important is that we talk about death in a meaningful way - that the language of death, of illness, of human frailty, is weaved into normal conversation.

From BBC

But Knox, a longtime journalist who went on to write several better-known novels, has a canny sense of human frailty, and his riffs on class and privilege — the gilded vagaries of “our type” — ring true.

"What troubles me is the demonization of addiction, of human frailty, using me as its avatar and the devastating consequences it has for the millions struggling with addiction."

From Reuters

He is reminded these days of human frailty.

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