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Yet it gives the description a spin, as well as a subtlety, that it otherwise lacks, and it shows that the glasses are not part of the middle-agedness, but something else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not about the missiles or Nicaragua -- about middle-agedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tenderness crept into her eyes, and her freckles seemed to fade out, and even the small blunt nose of her take on middle-agedness and motherliness.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Donnell, Annie Hamilton

"But you may have found new sources of interest," suggested I, perhaps a little too tenderly, for I had some sympathy with her dread of that particular phase of existence, middle-agedness.

From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Abbot, Anne Wales