palsy

My Left Foot told the true story of an Irish man named Christy Brown, played by Day-Lewis, who was born with cerebral palsy and could control only his left foot.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

He said his son has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, and relies on assistance to live with dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

My brother, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally disabled, is two years older than I am.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

Cerebral palsy is a group of conditions caused by a problem with the brain.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

“It takes time to accept the limitations of a beloved child. She has cerebral palsy, Mrs. Brooks.”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

That fall, a friend told the patient about a clinic at New York University that specialized in facial palsies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Sometimes the body's disease comes first, and dims our eyes and palsies our hands, before the fire of our mind and of our intellect is quenched.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

Are not those palsies and apoplexies more dangerous which commence many days before the syzygies of the moon, than those which happen at those times?

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

He struggled with palsied hands to shield his exposed body with a thin towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021

In front of a billion or so viewers, Witz was palsied with pleasure.

From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014

On the spot, they decide to liberate Claude from the company of the palsied, demented, and wheelchair bound.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2013

Clutching its credit card in hands palsied with anticipation, Lost in Showbiz catches its breath long enough to advise: don't all subscribe at once, you'll crash their server!

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011

An old priest, palsied, walking with a cane of ash.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

That’s never happened before—hunting is a favorite pastime—and he sees the change in himself as just one more sign of the times’ palsying effect on the simplicity of the old ways.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

Una, bringing home the palsying weariness of the day’s drudgery, would find a cheery welcome—and the work not done; no vegetables for dinner, no fresh boric-acid solution prepared for washing her stinging eyes.

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

Doubtless many a one has at times felt the stupendous truths of astronomy thus palsying him with a crushing sense of his own nothingness and burying him in fatalistic despair.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

In all the relations of private life he was too pure for the palsying touch of slander.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

But to such a one uncertainty is like a shock to the body, palsying the form and changing a strong arm into a nerveless, useless stick of bone and tissue.

From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees