Mr Idrees is a frail man with a gaunt face and intense eyes.

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If Mr Zhu, a frail man of 69 who is not afraid to make enemies, were suddenly to go, there is no guarantee that reform would be continued.

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Photos of Saddam Hussein in captivity after being fished out of his hiding hole showed a frail afflicted man, a shell of his former self.

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Prosecutors risk seeming to torment a frail old man.

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Rupert created the perception of a frail, old man who did not know what was going on in News Corp.

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It is a heavy burden to be resting on the frail shoulders of a man lying in a Beijing hospital bed as the diplomats and politicians dine together a few blocks away.

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He was a soft-spoken, bookish man, quite frail looking, really.

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However, the man was unable to be moved as he was so weak and frail, so the helicopter was then used to deliver vital oxygen.

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Juno Temple, doll-frail, allows Dottie to teeter between the ingenuous and the knowing, while Church shows us a big man rendered pliable and powerless.

NEWYORKER: Home Turf

It was during that visit that the world saw how frail Benedict had become in the three weeks since his emotional departure from the Apostolic Palace: Always a man with a purposeful walk, he shuffled tentatively that day, using his cane.

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He said that the policemen had splashed soapy water on the floor and walls of the cell, as they usually did, and that the old man, who had not bathed in a week, had yanked his shirt off and rubbed his frail back against the wet floor.

NEWYORKER: Cell One