| Perhaps I was particularly sensitive to his plight, having watched my parent's generation laid waste by decrepitude and death. |
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| Cracked masonry, incessant graffiti and rampant weeds completed an image of decrepitude. |
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| That was when I would begin my long slide into senility and decrepitude and start wearing different-coloured socks. |
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| His sister and I were talking about how he saw 25 as the beginning of the slide to old age and decrepitude, so he never wanted to live that long. |
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| Indeed, his scholarship has shown that decrepitude has been a problem with the last 10 directors to retire. |
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| Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude. |
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| The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity. |
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| However, Dr. Roberts is unable to offer any assistance, and John begins to age into decrepitude. |
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| It's time we go to war against decrepitude with guns blazing. |
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| The infirmities, the senility, the decrepitude that often inflicted the bodies of the elderly were an anathema to the pursuit of beauty. |
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| The major reasons for new building, however, were fires, along with warfare, natural disasters and sheer decrepitude from the passage of time. |
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| The widespread decrepitude is a dismal reminder that Soviet sport was an artificial construction shaped to state purposes. |
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| She was celebrated for her poetic talent, her stunning beauty during her youth, her trifling with amorous men, and her suffering from decrepitude and destitution in old age. |
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| Elsewhere, and just hitting the screens, he shirks the dotage and decrepitude forcing him into the quiet life for a final fling at what he does best. |
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| My journal entry for December 16, 2002, captures my decrepitude. |
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| We wanted other people to be polite and ignore our decrepitude. |
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| By passing in Sale I discovered a building under process of decrepitude, well that exists even in Australia. |
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| The saints are better evangelizers in their decrepitude than in their plenitude. |
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| Crumbling buildings and other urban sites seem left in decrepitude to their own devices. |
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| Another helpful feature on the site is a glossary of terms that delineate the various stages of mall decrepitude. |
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| In Melbourne that also means good lanes, arcades and frontages, many of which were built in the 19th century and had fallen into decrepitude. |
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| No other craftsman probably ever re-exploited the mill, which fell in decrepitude gradually, undoubtedly the wooden parts were retrieved for construction, unless a fire destroyed it entirely. |
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| Many power cuts are due to the decrepitude of the grid. |
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| This phase enabled to stop the processes of permanent degradation and decrepitude of the site and museum, to complete the new permanent exhibition and to set up management tools. |
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| There's a painful disparity between the snazziness of TiVo's technology and the decrepitude of its balance sheet. |
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| His public immaturity was only equal to his private decrepitude. |
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| But sometimes there are certain individuals who display an extreme decrepitude and their particularly off-putting aspect seems to want to shock the passer-by. |
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| Face it, we like our blues singers to show some signs of decrepitude. |
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| Now it should opt between continuing to age or creating values to break the cycle that has placed it in its present state that is still not the decrepitude of the dying. |
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| The great majority of them reject physical and mental decrepitude. |
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| The city of Tangiers experienced its golden age, with influence on an international scale, at the start of the 20th Century, before gradually falling into decrepitude. |
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| Including several series, it makes up a corpus that deals with disappearance, decrepitude and what remains in the vein of a reflection on life and death. |
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| The persons with Alzheimer suffer mainly from decrepitude of memory, disorientation, problems of concentration, planning and crisis, changes of personality and also perception, disturbances of speech and in walking. |
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| But a new national oil law has been stalled in the federal parliament in Baghdad for at least three years. The Kurds say they have shown up the decrepitude of Iraq's oil establishment. |
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| For Beckett, an Irish playwright born 100 years ago who won the Nobel prize in literature in 1969, adversity and decrepitude were a rich source of humour. |
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| There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature. |
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