decrepitude

• “The most apropos description of this cycle of inherent decrepitude is perhaps the Yiddish word schlock, meaning something "cheap, shoddy, or inferior.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “Alas, no one understands that the world is sinking on the ocean of Time that is so very deep and that is infested with those huge crocodiles called decrepitude and death.”

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

• “The last two stages, old age — up to seventy years — and the remaining years of very old age or "decrepitude," are the periods in life in which people "have very weak natural heat [and] the superfluities increase.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “Here, "decrepitude" means that things are torn away from "world," from a richer network of meaningfulness, and are instead substitutable, indifferent items in the technological ordering of reality.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home.”

  The Imperialist

• “As life in the retirement community unfolds, Herb grumbles about his "decrepitude" and wants to get an office to start working part-time again.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “Old, expensive rugs and drapes in some late stage of decrepitude, their worn, exhausted fibers a molecular stage above disintegration.”

  Fictionaut: "The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)

• “Sometimes I think that if Juni knew women in more wholesome circumstances than in their own decrepitude that she would be all right.”

  Fictionaut: Rule Out Euthymia

• “One may rationally fear illness and pain and increasing decrepitude or the dreaded dementia; but one should not fear death.”

  The Guardian: Notes and queries: How can I allay my fear of death? Why did my email sit in cyberspace for five years? What's the point of skirting boards?

• “The Pontiac Silverdome, burdened with debts and decrepitude, had been budgeted for sale at $7 million; a previous EFM sold it off for $583,000.”

  The Huffington Post: Rev. Jesse Jackson: Michigan's Governor Tramples Democracy

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