Pimen is an old man, weak in body -- his voice rarely rises to a full forte -- but firm and clear of mind.

One such wife, Dr. Linden says, became disgusted with her weak husband and flurried through a series of extramarital affairs in the hope of finding a stronger man.

He was six feet one like his father, with big hands and a hairy chest, a man the weak and persecuted would turn to.

This does not mean that he was a weak or somehow cowardly man.

There is a contrast between the rigidity of death and the weakness of life: " When he is born, man is soft and weak ; in death he becomes stiff and hard.

Not only spirits superior to man can be considered kami, but also spirits that are considered pitiable or weak have been considered kami in Shinto.

The soul reincarnates innumerable times in all conditions of life encompassing the whole range of human experience ( e. g. man / woman, rich / poor, powerful / weak, etc .).

At the moment of his election, chiefly through the influence of Cardinal Borghese, at his advanced age ( he was 67 ) and with his weak state of health he saw at once that he would need an energetic man, in whom he could place implicit confidence, to assist him in the government of the Church.

Schopenhauer sees reason as weak and insignificant compared to Will ; in one metaphor, Schopenhauer compares the human intellect to a lame man who can see, but who rides on the shoulder of the blind giant of Will.

Thus, if it seemed likely that a strong, poor man were guilty of robbing a rich, weak man, the strong poor man could argue, on the contrary, that this very likelihood ( that he would be a suspect ) makes it unlikely that he committed the crime, since he would most likely be apprehended for the crime.

Such as, being female characterizes one as a woman, and being a woman signifies one as weak, emotional, and irrational, and is incapable of actions attributed to a " man ".

We believe every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel ; and we have yet to learn what knowledge the white man – lost, houseless, shipless, apparently forgotten by his race, plainly famine-stricken, weak frozen, helpless, and dying – has of the gentleness of the Esquimaux nature.

In the novel being armed is part of being a man ; otherwise he wears a brassard and is considered weak and inferior.

He found the trick was more impressive not when he claimed that he could make the trunk heavy, but when he claimed he could make the strong man too weak to lift a trunk that even a small child could lift.

Clarendon gives a very eulogistic account of Pembroke, who appears, however, to have been a man of weak character and dissolute life.

As a young man, Wang came to blame the Qing dynasty for holding China back, and making it too weak to fight off exploitation by Western imperialist powers.

Guy has also appeared in a number of historical novels, including Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown, and Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, generally as a good-looking but weak and foolish young man.

He is forty-five, a scrawny and weak man, " with a nasty mouth.

The Chinese physician Pien Chi ' ao reportedly exchanged hearts between a man of strong spirit but weak will with one of a man of weak spirit but strong will in an attempt to achieve balance in each man.

Those who are too weak, should climb on the chair and, starting at the top of the chin, let themselves slowly down.

He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.

" After the war, nationalists, especially those who had been active in the Continental Army, complained that the Articles were too weak for an effective government.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.

As the system in Czech repeatedly produces very weak governments ( a specific problem is that about 15 % of the electorate support the Communists, who are shunned by all the other parties ) there is constant talk about changing it but without much chance of really pushing the reform through.

The pope, who was weak and had few supporters was forced to suggest a compromise, the abortive Concordat of 1111.

However, the large population of weak states after 1945 allowed intervention by former colonial powers, regional powers and neighboring states who themselves often had scarce resources.

In England, Charles was placed under the charge of Alletta ( Hogenhove ) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir Robert Carey, who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

Now the archon ( ruler ) who is weak has three names.

The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

* Mahaina-A woman who claims to suffer from alcoholism but is believed to have a weak temperament.

These locations were meant more as meal replacements for those who had " lost their appetites and suffered from jaded palates and weak chests.

Honorius was also greatly influenced by the Popes of Rome, who sought to extend their influence through his youth and weak character.

The Capetians, as they were descended from the Robertians, were formerly powerful princes themselves who had successfully unseated the weak and unfortunate Carolingian kings.

Initially, this was caused by the revulsion over the summary executions of 16 leaders — some of whom, such as James Connolly, who was too weak to stand from wounds sustained in the fighting — and of other people thought complicit in the rebellion.

Others were bandits who claimed control over stretches of wilderness, mountain roads or riverways-any legal authorities present, if any, were too weak to contest the controls.

In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples – as a natural self-defensive reaction – is much more excusable than the nationalism of peoples who oppress ; but, if the nationalism of the strong is ignoble, the nationalism of the weak is imprudent ; both give birth to and support each other ..."

The last King of the Kirat dynasty was Gasti, a weak ruler, who is said to have been overthrown by the Somavanshi ruler Nimisha.

" On the other hand, there are those such as Richard Pipes who think that Locke's arguments are weak, and that undue reliance thereon has weakened the cause of individualism in recent times.