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Despite its ironic detachment, the film draws you into its heroine's sickly state: Breathing oxygen from a canister inside a high-tech igloo, she dwindles to nearly nothing, the modern incarnation of the Incredible Shrinking Man.
They make you feel as if the click of your mouse has saved your neighbor's hard drive, healed sickly Jessica Mydek, and rescued poor little NPR.
"Fernanda Montenegro: 'Why is the sickly girl holding my Oscar?
In 1981, Reagan cut taxes to spur consumption and revive a sickly economy.
The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.