Sentences with phrase «offer feeble»

I can offer feeble excuses: my group kept pulling...

I can offer feeble excuses: my group kept pulling me forward, the museum was closing, the long - haired attendant in the cheap suit kept propelling me to the exit, there was too much to see in such short time.

This is one of the only books I've ever read that addressed the conquest of Canaan without either glossing over the genocide or offering feeble, inadequate defenses of it.

On its website, the World Bank division offered this feeble justification for this transaction: «IFC is supporting thermal power projects which have better GHG (greenhouse gas) and environmental performance than the average plants in India, given the country's large needs for incremental electricity supply.»

Not exact matches

Tristram Hunt offers instead his feeble version of identity politics.

But it seems a feeble defense to argue that its acceptable to be unclear in ones book as long as the point is clear in a reference (which readers may or not be able to readily find and which, if they do, may or may not actually offer the promised clarity).

Ana occasionally offers meek resistance to his demands, but these moments seem feeble and gratuitous.

The weaknesses of his latest offering shouldn't surprise anyone that knows about his track record; his last two films released this decade were Garfield, the feeble - minded version of the long - running comic strip, and Thunderpants, about a young boy with astounding abilities to produce flatulence.

It's hard to think of a Pixar production, even among the feebler ones, that doesn't offer at least one significant breakthrough or refinement in terms of a specific visual challenge: water in Finding Nemo, the organic - metallic sheen of insect wings in A Bug's Life, fur in Monsters, Inc., the color red in The Incredibles...

However, in addition to our possibly feeble efforts to help engage students in feeling powerful, we can certainly emphasize offering choices — the kinds of homework they have to do, the types of presentations they can organize, the essay topics they can respond to, and so on.

Each visit, I vow to change my wicked ways, and offer a few feeble excuses as to how I managed to fall off the wagon once again.

Unintelligible and vaguely threatening graffiti seems to originate from some brutish intellect, far removed from the sophisticated organising intelligence behind the painting; meanwhile the landscape itself offers meaningless signs and portents - a skull materialising amongst the leaves, a feeble arc of light which fails to illuminate.

Unfortunately I'm crippled and can't argue anymore, and all I can do is offer some rather feeble words of encouragement to those who do.

We're also offering the paperback as part of a special deal with our Steyn vs the Stick Big Climate Special, and with my latest book in our Undocumented and Unsettled special - part of my somewhat feeble efforts to ensure I can continue propping up my end of the Mann vs Steyn lawsuit for the three, four, seven years it's got left to run.