Sentences with phrase «in flimsy»

Having a possible dummy phone in a flimsy plastic shell may not convince everyone of LG's new design of the G5, but the evidence doesn't stop there.

The U.S. patent system has been broken for years: the country is awash in flimsy patents and, worse, a species of economic parasite known as patent trolls have been buying up those patents in order to extort startups and shake down productive businesses.

But, as we have seen before, Wegman et al deliberately excluded substantive consideration of the peer - reviewed literature in their analysis of M&M, even misrepresenting the work of Wahl and Ammann in a flimsy excuse to exclude it from substantive consideration.

«Details of the sham agreement are spreading far and wide and I am now being contacted by boat builders who fear Tasmania's wooden boat building industry will be ruined... Despite the fact that 90 per cent of two key iconic species, Celery Top Pine and King Bill Pine, are already in reserves the Greens are still not satisfied... More than 70 per cent of remaining sources of these timbers are in the 430,000 hectares rubber stamped by former Wilderness Society director Jonathan West in his flimsy advice accepted by the Prime Minister and the Premier last week... The wooden boat industry has an estimated annual value of $ 50 million but without a timber supply it has no future.»

But for the millions of Americans living involuntarily in flimsy housing in the tornado hot zone, the imperative is to learn the location of the nearest strong structure or shelter and to heed warnings when, as was the case last week, forecasters point to extraordinary danger.

We glimpse its encroaching reality beyond the artifice of Richard Avedon's seamless paper where Suzy Parker poses in Dior; with Irving Penn's famous makeshift converging walls that grip and shelter celebrated subjects like Elsa Schiaparelli and Truman Capote, and in the flimsy backgrounds of Lucas Samaras's Polaroid «Sittings» from 1978 and 1980.

There is also the possibility that your rabbit could chew a hole in the flimsy coverings and crawl inside and get stuck.

You don't want to live in a flimsy house, do you?

Stranded in the middle of it all in a flimsy love triangle are three actors who normally radiate charisma: Cooper, Stone and McAdams.

Waitress shown in flimsy transparent outfit (with black tape across breasts).

2 Stars PLAYING A PAIR OF ANTAGONISTIC one - term Presidents thrown together in a flimsy chase plot, Jack Lemmon and James Garner trade insults that aren't exactly in Lincoln's league.

Rotten: Periodic moments of good special effects are separated by reels of dramatic banality as players flounder in flimsy dialog and under sluggish direction.

What drives a man to hang in a flimsy tent off a sheer cliff face, 20,000 - odd feet above sea level with avalanches audibly rushing down around him?

Periodic moments of good special effects are separated by reels of dramatic banality as players flounder in flimsy dialog and under sluggish direction.

There's the easy, lazy trafficking in broad ethnic caricature — Mike Epps as a black drug dealer, Ken Jeong as a prancing, lisping Asian gangster known as Mr. Chow — which is decked out in flimsy air quotes to make it seem as if the movie is making fun of racism.

The product is housed in a flimsy black palette.

Because it's COLD out there and I'm not one of those people who are brave enough (or foolhardy, depending on your viewpoint) to suffer through bone - chilling weather clad in flimsy, seasonally inappropriate layers.

I can never understand why in December women walk around in flimsy dresses with little straps and often with bare legs in peeptoe shoes as well.

Forecasters said as much as a metre of rain could fall on some isolated areas of Haiti, raising fears of deadly mudslides and floods in the heavily deforested country where many families live in flimsy houses with corrugated metal roofs.

You're not interested in flimsy, breakable models that won't deliver awesome results.

I start all of my seeds in a flimsy greenhouse as early as January to take advantage of our brief «rainy season.»

He loves it when it's cold — runs around in flimsy shirts.

At evening, in the flimsy khan in the desert, they opened their sacks to give grain to the animals.

Most live in flimsy, breakable homes, homes incapable of withstanding an earthquake of this magnitude.

But if the nice, thick - walled building would take about 15 minutes travel time, it's better to hole up in the flimsy shelter for awhile — but you should probably leave for a better shelter after roughly an hour (and maybe pick up some beers and sodas on the way: A study in the»50s found they taste fine after a blast).

In real life, human beings are packaged in the flimsiest of packages, threatened by real and sometimes horrifying dangers, events like Columbine.

Written by Katie Dippold (The Heat, last year's Ghostbusters) and directed by Jonathan Levine (The Night Before), Snatched is a movie in the flimsiest sense; in terms of craftsmanship, the best that can be said is that it clears the very low bar set by the typo in the expository opening crawl.

Not exact matches

In business (not to mention in life), all sorts of invisible mental ropes — flimsy and easily broken — may well be holding us bacIn business (not to mention in life), all sorts of invisible mental ropes — flimsy and easily broken — may well be holding us bacin life), all sorts of invisible mental ropes — flimsy and easily broken — may well be holding us back.

Others questioned whether the company was really in the dark: «Most «fleet» sales were just a flimsy cover for sales to resellers,» concluded Bertel Schmitt of Dailykanban.com, an auto industry site.

But you'll also see her post photos of her first gig, on just a small fold - out stage in a park with a flimsy banner that just says «Taylor Swift» in red font.

Customers offered vague, flimsy reasons for needing more oxycodone supply — «increase in foot traffic»; «more business» — and they'd get it.

On the other hand, more spending cuts could certainly stifle the economic rebound everyone expects to see in the second half of the year after the flimsy performance of this just - ended second quarter.

More than 5,000 migrants, many escaping civil war in Syria, have died over the past 18 months while trying to cross from North Africa, often on flimsy rubber dinghies or crowded fishing boats.

It makes it easier to keep track of the flimsy boarding pass and I always keep it in the outside pocket of my carry - on.

Developed in the secretive X lab that came up with a driverless car and web - surfing eyeglasses, the flimsy helium - filled inflatables beam the Internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind.

In the mid-2000s, however, sales began to take off with growing consumer acceptance of recycled plastic as a highly durable, and maintenance free, alternative to both vintage wooden furniture and the flimsy but ubiquitous injection molding plastic armchairs.

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

To be clear: most luggage in this price range is made of a flimsier ABS - polycarbonate blend.

The sudden craze for such financially flimsy new - media stocks seemed to confirm everything Wired magazine had been proselytizing in its pages: that the digital revolution was fast upon us, sweeping away all rules and preconceptions before it.

They also come in a charging case, but it feels flimsy, like a takeout container.

I think the causal link between working hard and being successful is a very flimsy one — there's very little in the way of empirical evidence to back it up, even Buffet himself talks of winning the «ovarian lottery».

Where Trump's narrative has always been flimsy and inconsistent, Comey's has been careful, consistent, and in keeping with everything we know about the president, which only bolsters his credibility.

It does not feel flimsy in my hand and although I like heavier safety razors, this razor did a lot of the work for me.

However, I've also seen far too many people attempt to ground their identity in doubt - free theology making it all too easy for comedians such as Bill Maher, George Carlin or Ricky Gervais to come along and thoroughly dismantle flimsy beliefs about the creation narrative, the historical Jesus or how seemingly misogynistic and oppressive the Bible sounds.

If there is a perfect being that created the universe and believes in interfering with our world (through Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha... whatever you believe), then why are all religious texts so flawed and flimsy?

Hoffman said it also may fall apart because of what they think is flimsy evidence: «The evidence is basically non-existent so there is a chance the court will acquit him as well — but you never know in Turkey.»

She's a blogger who fell in love with a Catholic guy and adopted his religion while still denouncing half all based on the flimsy idea that she had a predetermination that «morality» is «external» to man based on essentially nothing other than she believes it.

flimsy promises to stop child s.ex abuse in the church.

Some United Methodist bishops spoke up when two of its sons, George Bush and Dick Cheney, led the nation into war in Iraq on flimsy evidence and for questionable motives.

You do not accept such flimsy evidence in any other area of your life; you wouldn't make investments solely on the word of the salesperson.