31. An exuberant literature of swelling, excess, bodily effluvia, jovial fatness and exploding decrepitude grew up around gout images. 32. This was not to be read until he'd forgotten youthful truth in his decrepitude at the age of 25. 33. The only time she truly captures the essence of the great sex symbol is when West has sunk into her decrepitude . 34. How could the twin American institutions of the anchor and the evening news have fallen into such seeming decrepitude and peril? 35. Urban decay is the sociological process whereby a city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude . 36. There is a double melancholy the melancholy of fashion, and the melancholy of bodily change, from nubility to decrepitude . 37. Today, the Mariners have displaced their sorry predecessors, giving us Randy Johnson, his fastball aged to perfection not decrepitude . 38. On the table next to it were several bottles of fake pills covering every facet of human decrepitude from constipation to hemorrhoids. 39. The only way I could possibly think it would be interesting is if it showed us in an advanced state of decrepitude . 40. His father, 54, replies : " I can do it even at my advanced stage of decrepitude ."