And while they still call to mind a walking tour of historic Britain as reimagined by a PlayStation designer, Dudley's CGI projections have at least been stabilized so they no longer provide the kind of nerve-jarring experience that would make the novel's
valetudinarian Mr.
In their fascinating and eloquent
valetudinarian correspondence, Adams and Jefferson had a great deal to say about religion.
For the
valetudinarian and, in daily life, quite impractical Lenin, having at hand his sisters and the highly efficient Nadezhda outweighed romantic love.
There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse, a
valetudinarian....
Browsing into its family of synonyms, we can find "sick or ill person, infirm person, hospital case, case; asylum inmate, convalescent, outpatient, shut-in,
valetudinarian; sufferer, victim." Other associations of the word "patient" or "patience" leads us to the sets enduring/stoical; serene/placid, and tenacious/unremitting [SF]).
His mother, Juliet, was early a
valetudinarian and on the fringe of his life; his father, Junius, was the dominant force, a man of rectitude, if sparing in warmth for a son of delicate health -- but also an erratic disposition that today would probably be diagnosed as manic-depressive.
Established in comfortable seclusion at Down, he tended his chronically precarious health, kept in touch with a large and far-flung circle of scientific colleagues, paced contemplatively around his beloved Sandwalk (a landscape garden equivalent to a monastery's cloisters), welcomed visitors, ventured forth to London exhibits and lectures or to
valetudinarian stints at hydropathic spas--and produced a staggering array of scientific studies.
There is something
valetudinarian about her, forever ailing, self-absorbed, given to reclusive periods, writing dramatic descriptions of her inner suffering.
Gissing's undoubtedly well-founded
valetudinarian tendencies continue in this volume with a truly Victorian tenaciousness.