Sentences with phrase «of failing eyesight»

Older drivers, because of failing eyesight and other age - related issues, also tend to have more accidents than middle - aged drivers and so will pay more for insurance.

Despite relapses of failing eyesight and crippling rheumatism, he continued to lecture on Spencer's behalf, dragging himself around the Midwest in unheated trains to proselytize in town after town where often, he would recall, he encountered «a protracted meeting in full blast at every church in town except the Episcopal, and a general feeling of pious rage at my appearance on the scene.»

An aging baseball scout (Clint Eastwood) on a recruiting trip is forced to accept the help of his daughter (Amy Adams) because of his failing eyesight.

Not exact matches

This time, suppose the widow, due to her failing eyesight, mistakenly gives the clerk nine pennies and one dime for the loaf of bread which costs only ten cents.

So it's too early to prescribe a dose of chocolate to help preserve failing eyesight, Fromer explained.

As the years pile up, we brace ourselves for brittle bones, expanding waistlines, failing eyesight — and a propensity for falling asleep in front of the T.V.

A few days later, Bobby sees an opportunity to purchase the coveted bike himself when the old man with failing eyesight offers to pay Bobby a dollar a day for reading the newspaper out loud and watching for «Low Men» — a debased pack of strangers Ted believes are hounding him.

It was a touching moment when a sprightly, 89 - year old former teacher with failing eyesight was recognized for 39 years of work as a volunteer reading tutor.

That and my failing health, advanced age, poor eyesight, lackluster prospects and creeping dread of imminent death.

Another feature of the improved typesetting will be of interest to those of us whose eyesight is failing, which, as I understand it, is everyone over the age of 40.

Though the initial stages of visual impairment may pose some inconveniences and adjustments, dogs have a far more superior sense of hearing and smell compared to humans that become more acute as their eyesight fails.

People and dogs with aging eyes or failing eyesight could benefit from daily servings of kale.

The Museum's collection of over 3,000 works comprises 1,149 O'Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculptures that date from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight forced O'Keeffe into retirement.

The Museum's collections of over 3,000 works comprises 140 O'Keeffe oil paintings, nearly 700 drawings, and hundreds of additional works dating from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight forced O'Keeffe into retirement.

The exhibition builds on the museum's own collection of O'Keeffe work and features 35 O'Keeffe works that span her career including iconic works, Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 and Radiator Building — Night, New York, as well as lesser known works such as the 1972 painting, The Beyond, which was one of the last works she was able to complete unassisted as her eyesight began to fail.

At a time when the so - called New Image Painters — Baselitz, Schnabel and co — were reviving interest in neo-expressionist painting, the existential cruelty of Titian's painting, in which a satyr is skinned alive, seemed like a message from the past, telling us that the truly great artist can not so much transcend the infirmities of old age — failing eyesight and diminished muscular control — as turn them into an aspect of genius, in works that strip back to the essence of things, and which can communicate to any age.

It was Monet, however, who adhered most closely to the practice of plein - air methods, continuing to refine his painterly techniques (even when plagued with failing eyesight) in his monumental series of water lily paintings completed in his garden at Giverny, until in death in 1926.

When her eyesight started failing in her nineties, rather than give up her reinvigorated printmaking production, she increased the size of the plates so she could see them better and concentrated on soft - ground etching, a technique that is easier on the hand.

Larry: I read that Piero della Francesca, when his eyesight was failing in the last ten years of his life, wrote a whole treatise on perspective and mathematics.

As an aging person with failing eyesight I do appreciate larger screens more often than I did in the past, but I really liked the portability the smaller size of the PlayBook gives you.