ageful

Example Sentences

• "Poor Hans, with watery eye, and ache at heart, / Glanced at the tambour; she is lost to him. / Hirschvogel sat crossed-legged, his glasses up, / And watched for what might hap, with ageful fire."
• "Of course, it also represents the courtesy of the old men of the country, with their eylids drooping into ageful insipidity and ageful sleep and their bodies leaning over the age-old sticks without which can they hardly stand."
• "In ST [Star Trek] the character of Spock was unique in bridging oppositions that usually remained separate. […] Spock, however, had both masculine intellect and feminine intuition, both youthful vigor and ageful wisdom, both terran humanness and extraterrestrial otherness. By scrambling traditional stereotypes, he implicitly called them into question."
• "These women realise the role of technogenarian as they reconstruct their naturally ageing bodies with age-erasing technology, replacing undesired ageful faces and bodies with youthful ageless ones."
• "[Molly] Andrews (2000) sees the self, not as ageless, but as ageful, and argues that, in the same way that difference is celebrated in axes such as race, gender, religion and nationality, we should not ignore the importance of age: […]"
• "In the New Testament, the substantive αιων, and αιωνιος the adjective derived from it, occur more than two hundred times. The adjective, which strictly might be rendered “full of ages” or “ageful,” is generally translated "eternal" or "everlasting," and I believe correctly; […]"