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  • "Yes, of course, I'm not senile," Uncle Max muttered.†   (source)
  • And I said it was also Uncle Terry, but he was in Sunderland and he was Father's brother, and it was my grandparents, too, but three of them were dead and Grandma Burton was in a home because she had senile dementia and thought that I was someone on television.†   (source)
  • This has got to be senility talking, or Alzheimer's or something.†   (source)
  • "I knew you was getting senile," she say.†   (source)
  • This was a further indication to my grandmother that Lydia's senility was in advance of her own.†   (source)
  • Conservative Catholics declared the Pope "senile," while scientific purists accused him of trying to spread the church's influence where it did not belong.†   (source)
  • Why don't they call him a senile old goat!†   (source)
  • DRACO: Don't play the senility card with us, old man.†   (source)
  • Senile dementia.†   (source)
  • Her grandmother is in her eighties, bedridden, all but senile, unable to eat or talk.†   (source)
  • Thousands of years ago, Ra got senile and retreated into the heavens, leaving Osiris in charge.†   (source)
  • She procured a good supply of antibiotic drugs from our granddad Dr. Bud Wharton, who has senile dementia and loves to walk outdoors naked but still can do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.†   (source)
  • A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind's a bit senile or silly?†   (source)
  • He grew harder and harder ever since Colonel Gerineldo Marquez refused to back him up in a senile war.†   (source)
  • One day you'll discover for yourself how strength seeps away, but I'm neither morbid nor senile.†   (source)
  • Four, Vivian is ancient, but she doesn't appear to be senile.†   (source)
  • When he brandished his statistics and the results of the last elections in front of them, his own party members suspected they were just the senile rantings of an old man.†   (source)
  • He was never popular, what with his hunting fetish and leaving the country to kind of rot once his old man got senile, but the way he foiled the kidnapping made everybody realize that this was some brave fella and they were lucky to have him next in line to lead them.†   (source)
  • "Had us," the lieutenant was chanting to himself Senile-sounding.†   (source)
  • Look at him now, glowing in the dark, showing a senile grin.†   (source)
  • For in moments like these she saw how the world looked at him and saw an old man, senile and forgetful, rather than the universe that had been, that was still, Leo March.†   (source)
  • You are a senile old fool," said Galbatorix, and his voice acquired a harsh, angry cast.†   (source)
  • Well, I hope don't nobody let me roam around like that when I get senile.†   (source)
  • Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day.†   (source)
  • Mattie thought the woman appeared a bit senile, and she had three cats.†   (source)
  • We keep him on his toes, keep him sharp, keep him from dropping into complete senility, Elliot says.†   (source)
  • I might be senile.†   (source)
  • General Dreedle had the unco-operative fighter-plane commander transferred to the Solomon Islands to dig graves and replaced him with a senile colonel with bursitis and a craving for litchi nuts who introduced Milo to the B-17 general on the mainland with a yearning for Polish sausage.†   (source)
  • So I'm not senile after all.†   (source)
  • I've been telling you the old fool's gone senile.†   (source)
  • I'm not senile.†   (source)
  • And wasn't that old slave a scientist-or at least called one, recognized as one-even when he stood with hat in hand, bowing and scraping in senile and obscene servility?†   (source)
  • Senility setting in.†   (source)
  • This seemed impossible, but glancing closer Dagny saw that her dust-colored hair was not gray and that there were few wrinkles on her face; it was only the vacant eyes, the stooped shoulders, the shuffling movements that gave her the stamp of senility.†   (source)
  • Out came Prof, cackled senilely (looked even worse than earlier!)†   (source)
  • Just because he...me...the other me...isn't here, doesn't mean I'm deaf, dumb, and blind and you have to act like I'm some senile old man.†   (source)
  • The day I need advice on women from a twelve-year-old, I'll be too senile to use it!†   (source)
  • We try to teach our children to avoid touching alien things, but every day they see you do it, you senile old man.†   (source)
  • Fred was right when he said she was starting to get senile.†   (source)
  • But when it conies to dealing with Revenuers you shall accept that I am neither stupid nor senile.†   (source)
  • And it is only when she is out of sight and I've regained myself and am retracing my steps to the store in a tentative gait in order, I must oddly hope, to persuade the assistant manager Kari of my senility and madness, that I realize how merciful and lucky it is to have avoided such a meeting with all those difficult, murky remembrances.†   (source)
  • In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.†   (source)
  • Laying his ears back until they were flush with his broad skull, he began to wiggle like a pup while at the same time wrinkling his lips in a frightful grimace which may have been intended to register infatuation, but which looked to me more like a symptom of senile decay.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, Stingo, I am sorry about this since it puts you in financial straits and I am in no position to be of much help, beset as I am already by the seemingly endless troubles and debts of your two aunts down in N.C. who I fear are prematurely senile and in a pathetic way.†   (source)
  • But I think some of it also comes from a kind of inner senility, a historical centuries-long weariness.†   (source)
  • At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.   (source)
    senility = mental weakness caused by old age
  • Faces still fresh and unwithered (for senility galloped so hard that it had no time to age the cheeks–only the heart and brain) turned as they passed.   (source)
  • At the lift gates the presiding porter gave him the information he required, and he dropped down to Ward 81 (a Galloping Senility ward, the porter explained) on the seventeenth floor.   (source)
  • It is worthy of note that, in spite of his m–––'s senility and the extreme repulsiveness of her appearance, the Savage frequently goes to see her and appears to be much attached to her–an interesting example of the way in which early conditioning can be made to modify and even run counter to natural impulses (in this case, the impulse to recoil from an unpleasant object).   (source)
  • It's the mouthpiece of a senile Titan queen.†   (source)
  • No renewing sunlight had helped the senile gods.†   (source)
  • Our greatest enemy rises, and you have dethroned my son and made a senile god our leader.†   (source)
  • And how could an immortal being get senile in the first place?†   (source)
  • I will entertain the Lord of Chaos himself with a senile sun god!†   (source)
  • Besides, to call off my protection so swiftly might generate rumors of senility.†   (source)
  • I take note: artist instead of painter, the foreboding still, sign-pointing the way to senility.†   (source)
  • I might be older, but that doesn't mean I'm senile.†   (source)
  • How many other old men in Paris in their senile delusions may mention Le Coeur du Soldat-and you?†   (source)
  • Suppose it were Miss Octave's senile joke, and Esther sat facing an empty chair, or a china statue?†   (source)
  • Worse yet, senility stretches in proportion.†   (source)
  • Aunt Evvie was nowhere near as senile as Arnie Heebert had been, and nowhere near as old, but at ninety-three she was old enough, and, as she was fond of bawling at a resigned (and often hung-over) George Meara when he delivered the mail, she hadn't been stupid enough to lose her home the way Heebert had done.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she panted like a dog on a hot day, and when she died of a heart attack at sixty-six, senile to the point of idiocy even at that early age, Carrie had not even been a year old.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's going a bit senile.†   (source)
  • At first Fernanda interpreted that bustle as an attack of senile madness and it was difficult for her to suppress her exasperation.†   (source)
  • Lydia's nodding was the most detectable manifestation of how her senility was in advance of my grandmother's senility—or so my grandmother had observed, privately, to me.†   (source)
  • I wanted him to feel remorse and know what he did and what he is, but when you see him around town and they talk about him, he's just senile.†   (source)
  • Vanger spoke in a steady voice, and Blomkvist had already decided that the old man was neither senile nor irrational.†   (source)
  • As the oldest resident of Castle Rock, Aunt Evvie had held the Boston Post cane for the last two years, ever since Arnold Heebert, who had been one hundred and one and so far gone in senility that talking to him held all the intellectual challenge of talking to an empty catfood can, had doddered off the back patio of the Castle Acres Nursing Home and broken his neck exactly twenty-five minutes after whizzing in his pants for the last time.†   (source)
  • Grandmother was extremely—almost clinically—interested in Lydia's senility, because she took Lydia's behavior as a barometer regarding what she could soon expect of herself.†   (source)
  • So I served up his food silently and told myself that he wasn't senile—it would be insulting to treat him like a child and make him account for his time and his money.†   (source)
  • During the crushing insomnia brought on by his asthma he would measure and remeasure the depth of his misfortune as he went through the shadowy house where the senile fussing of Ursula had instilled a fear of the world in him.†   (source)
  • Germaine was superstitious and probably heard screaming, of one kind or another, every night; and Lydia—it was now clearly proven—was suffering from a senility much in advance of my grandmother's.†   (source)
  • But she had to tolerate that one loose piece in the family machinery because she was sure that the old colonel was an animal who had been tamed by the years and by disappointment and who, in a burst of senile rebellion, was quite capable of uprooting the foundations of the house.†   (source)
  • Lydia said; this was a pet phrase of my grandmother's, and Grandmother eyed Lydia as if this thievery of her favorite language were another manifestation of Lydia's senility being in advance of her own.†   (source)
  • It was not only that she was old and exhausted, but overnight the house had plunged into a crisis of senility.†   (source)
  • "But if he retired because he was senile," Walt said, "wouldn't that mean he's really, really senile now?"†   (source)
  • From that time on the parish priest began to show the signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.†   (source)
  • As we descended over the enemy, old Ra (yes, he was still just as senile and withered as ever) leaned over the side and waved at everyone with his crook.†   (source)
  • We retrieved a senile god.†   (source)
  • A courier is sent to Sheng, preferably a half-senile old man who's been paid by a blind and fed the information over the phone.†   (source)
  • But now the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritic hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.†   (source)
  • Was she going senile?†   (source)
  • That was why she did not treat him like a difficult old man but as a senile baby, and that deception was providential for the two of them because it put them beyond the reach of pity.†   (source)
  • She's getting, I don't know, not senile, just a little shaky, Laura, but I think she'd rather live alone.†   (source)
  • Senile dementia.†   (source)
  • Senile, however.†   (source)
  • Either I'm finally going senile, or else it's my mind's way of coping with being entirely unchallenged in the present.†   (source)
  • THIRD PRIEST: Senility.†   (source)
  • She behaved like what she was, a girl ready to learn about life under the guidance of a venerable old man who was not shocked by anything, and he chose to behave like what he had most feared being in his life: a senile lover.†   (source)
  • of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed nothing beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; the younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream-the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah's Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell her that Mr. Chatham is practically senile, the butt of a thousand boyish and not-so-boyish pranks and jokes, and that he didn't remember my father at all.†   (source)
  • The orchestration of the moment was this: Barbara was only twenty-one years old, but she thought her father was senile, even though he was only forty-six-senile because of damage to his brain in the airplane crash.†   (source)
  • You are not senile.†   (source)
  • Harald yelled back, "Edrick, you senile, effeminate dog, Thor himself could not blow the wind that could speed your filthy wreck of a ship faster than the Dragonshield."†   (source)
  • And Billy, meanwhile, was trying to hang onto his dignity, to persuade Barbara and everybody else that he was far from senile, that, on the contrary, he was devoting himself to a calling much higher than mere business.†   (source)
  • Well, then: Dr. Urbino Daza wanted to thank Florentino Ariza for the good companionship he gave his mother in the solitude of her widowhood, he begged him to continue doing so for the good of them both and the convenience of all, and to have patience with her senile whims.†   (source)
  • When Authority Earthside demanded a report from Warden on this wild rumor, Mike had consulted Prof, then had accepted call and given a convincing imitation of senility, managing to deny, confirm, and confuse every detail.†   (source)
  • He considered it a stroke of good fortune that among so many hazardous encounters, the only woman who had made him taste a drop of bitterness was the sinuous Sara Noriega, who ended her days in the Divine Shepherdess Asylum, reciting senile verses of such outrageous obscenity that they were forced to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy.†   (source)
  • I am not senile.†   (source)
  • Only later would he realize that he was afraid, that moment, that he was seeing his father's first lapse into real senility.†   (source)
  • Nathan and Larry's parents had been Orthodox Jews, but the mother was dead and the father, now in his eighties, was in precarious health and quite senile.†   (source)
  • And it's not my fault that the Chief of Police is a half-senile old coot who's got no more business in his job than a scarecrow's got in church.†   (source)
  • We look up at them out of our yellow-eyed, senile ignorance, reduced to wrinkled, toothless elders, smiling, waving at their brassy youth with pleasure like a kid's: Hi hi.†   (source)
  • Perhaps simply this: sitting in Clumly's office, soberly reasoning with a half-senile country cop on a case that would never have come up in a city like Buffalo, he had felt a burst of pleasure in his having escaped all that, having fled that cave of miscalculation and inevitable embarrassment that had once been his prison—the discomfiture summed up for him in his partnership with a small-town, old-fashioned attorney, Will Hodge Sr. It was almost frightening, when you thought about it.†   (source)
  • You begin to shrink back from thought-life has bombed you, and you flee forward to the unconsciousness of senility.†   (source)
  • An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him.†   (source)
  • At twenty-two, the age of thirty seems to be the verge of senility.†   (source)
  • His wild bombast was tempered now by senile petulance.†   (source)
  • The ship stewards, on his return trip, had felt certain that the old gentleman was senile.†   (source)
  • Grandma had laid most of her strength on Mama as boss-woman, governing hand, queen mother, empress, and even her banishment of George and near-senile kitchen scandals couldn't shake the respect and liege feeling so long established.†   (source)
  • He grows senile!†   (source)
  • Jones called him, but not now Now fogbound by his own private embattlement of personal morality: that picayune splitting of abstract hairs while (Grandfather said) Rome vanished and Jericho crumbled, that this would be right if or that would be wrong but of slowing blood and stiffening bones and arteries that Father says men resort to in senility who while young and supple and strong reacted to a single simple Yes and a single simple No as instantaneous and complete and unthinking as the snapping on and off of electricity, sitting there and talking and now Grandfather not knowing what he was talking about because now Grandfather said he did not believe that Sutpen himself knew because eve†   (source)
  • You just told me I was nearly senile,†   (source)
  • Only the old Spaniard whom Dr. Rieux was treating for asthma went on rubbing his hands and chuckling: "They're coming out, they're coming out," with senile glee.†   (source)
  • I'm being senile.†   (source)
  • And I cannot translate it to you so that its binding power ropes you in, and makes it clear to you that you are aimless; and the rhythm is cheap and worthless; and so remove that degradation which, if you are unaware of your aimlessness, pervades you, making you senile, even while you are young.†   (source)
  • One night I lay awake horrified hearing, as I imagined, an obscene old man gasping and croaking and muttering senile indecencies—it was a cat, I was told afterwards; a cat's anguished love making.†   (source)
  • And if the old man knows of the existence of this feeling, the effect is merely to increase his irritation: he would make children senile, if he could.†   (source)
  • The dry doctor had grown old; behind his dusty restraint, the prim authority of his manner, there was a deepening well of senile bawdry.†   (source)
  • There was something childish in those eyes, though it was not the childishness of senility.†   (source)
  • She was showing an inquisitiveness that really made it seem like she was going senile.†   (source)
  • Much upset, he sat silent for a moment, thinking over his mother and her senile intrusions.†   (source)
  • no!" croaked the old man without lifting his eyes, and the senile tremble of his head became almost fierce with determination.†   (source)
  • For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone — mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt — but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • Nor was it the dotage of senile love.†   (source)
  • He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility.†   (source)
  • She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.†   (source)
  • He was a universal genius—on that point I agreed with the old chap, who thereupon blew his nose noisily into a large cotton handkerchief and withdrew in senile agitation, bearing off some family letters and memoranda without importance.†   (source)
  • When he went from that place Max Gottlieb walked slowly, without purpose, and in his eyes were senile tears.†   (source)
  • I'm sure if I were a man I'd love the handling of money; it has become quite a senile passion with me.†   (source)
  • He took small steps and had a habit of letting the full weight of his great body, including the head, tilt toward the foot he had just put forward, which made him look more like a kindly, senile old man than a king.†   (source)
  • The doctors say it's senile dementia.†   (source)
  • It would have been more suitable as a way of passing the long days after he had retired and become senile.†   (source)
  • She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.†   (source)
  • When the story came to her uncle, a forgetful cavalier of a more hypocritical era, there was a scene, from which Eleanor emerged, subdued but rebellious and indignant, to seek haven with her grandfather who hovered in the country on the near side of senility.†   (source)
  • On the senile table was a pile of memoranda of debts which the Doc was always swearing he would "collect from those dead-beats right now," and which he would never, by any chance, at any time, collect from any of them.†   (source)
  • He becomes senile, and as he has come to know even the fleas in the doorkeeper's fur collar over the years that he has been studying him he even asks them to help him and change the doorkeeper's mind.†   (source)
  • In his cups, though he severely retained his moral and elegant vocabulary, Clif chronicled the jest of selling oil-wells unprovided with oil and of escaping before the law closed in; the cleverness of joining churches for the purpose of selling stock to the members; and the edifying experience of assisting Dr. Benoni Carr to capture a rich and senile widow for his sanitarium by promising to provide medical consultation from the spirit-world.†   (source)
  • He made the fruit to grow so well that man need not work—and then He laughed, and stuck in volcanoes and snakes and damp heat and early senility and the plague and malaria.†   (source)
  • These ideas, puerile, as we have just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on the imaginations of young girls.†   (source)
  • The central power, successively stripped of all its prerogatives, and reduced to impotence by tacit consent, would become incompetent to fulfil its purpose; and the second Union would perish, like the first, by a sort of senile inaptitude.†   (source)
  • He showed marked signs of senility by a tendency to fall asleep, forgetfulness of quite recent events, remembrance of remote ones, and the childish vanity with which he accepted the role of head of the Moscow opposition.†   (source)
  • Dobbin was not a little affected by the sight of this once kind old friend, crazed almost with misfortune and raving with senile anger.†   (source)
  • Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught.†   (source)
  • There existed in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled at being in France bu†   (source)
  • M. Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:— "Tell me all about it!"†   (source)
  • Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of the child—all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in fact, make a mistake.†   (source)
  • You're not getting senile and dull-witted.†   (source)
  • The doctors diagnosed a hopeless senility.†   (source)
  • It's old age—senility.†   (source)
  • —senility?†   (source)
  • From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.†   (source)
  • Every morning before I was out the main gate I had one last impression that was both ordinary and unforgettable: a pyramid of turtles; the iridescent snout of a mandrill; the stately silence of a giraffe; the obese, yellow open mouth of a hippo; the beak-and-claw climbing of a macaw parrot up a wire fence; the greeting claps of a shoebill's bill; the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.   (source)
    senile = caused by old age
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