Allow one honest sentence to emerge from all this feeble, formulaic footling. |
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What a feeble excuse for a song that is, a classic non-quorate affair covering three notes throughout. |
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They show how puny the supposed threat can seem, how feeble strutting columns of third world soldiery can abruptly become. |
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If you forget that you are ambassadors, your work will be feeble, listless and inefficient, because nerveless and sinewless. |
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A small pale brown and maroon-chestnut coloured duck, the whistling teals appear feeble. |
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Russ waddled in a feeble stride as the daughter strutted with a youthful arrogance. |
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Since my feeble attempt at fiction is so unfruitful and unliked, I guess I shall not continue the story to bore you guys. |
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Since my feeble attempt at fiction is so unfruitful and unliked, I shall not continue the story to bore you guys. |
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They took advantage of their large estates, and the feeble position of emancipated serfs, to supply urban markets in western Europe. |
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The visual style, intellectually a bit feeble, was, historically, surprisingly robust. |
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We are like hordes of nomads constantly changing places in a feeble attempt to make our work lives better. |
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When this horizon paled, far-torn from light, with feeble hope of dawn your gaze alone could wake the morn. |
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His fingers closed around one slender wrist, groping, and discovered a feeble, fluttering pulse. |
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Bobby peered into those pale, penetrating eyes, sort of shrugged and gave her a feeble chipmunk smile. |
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These are fundamental defects, and are usually associated with a relatively feeble digestion, weak heart and incapacious lungs. |
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She tried to pull it open even though she knew that there was no way it was going to come open by her feeble strength. |
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Weak and feeble, their gray feathers were sprinkled with fine grains of white salt. |
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Today this peerless coach lies feeble and weak wanting assistance to meet his illness. |
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Lacking any access to the strenuous life of the outdoors, they would be physically feeble. |
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Eighty-year-old Lucy is a small feeble woman, but what she lacks in physical strength, she makes up for in character. |
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It's too easy to choose the weakest, most feeble opponent and it's usually more about your own insecurities than a real challenge to combat. |
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Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless. |
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She looks so weak and feeble from all her depression, but there's a strength in her now that was never there before. |
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Occasionally she would have a fit of coughing, her body's very feeble last attempts at expelling her illness. |
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But I'm convinced that what it releases is just my feeble reservoir of strength. |
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With a feeble squeak, his knees buckled, and he tumbled into a wall, eyes wide with shock. |
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There was a distinct amount of light filtering around the blinds and, through the window, the first feeble sounds of the dawn chorus. |
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With a feeble murmur her head drooped backward from a sudden spell of dizziness. |
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Jackson took one look at her afflicted walk, and scooped her up in his arms, ignoring her feeble cry of protest. |
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Worse than the comedy, however, are the director's feeble attempts at character building. |
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Janes's budget was obviously restricted, but this is no excuse for a feeble script. |
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To do so is a common but intellectually feeble move, itself a defence against uncomfortable reality. |
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A Nietzschean may see it as a lie with which the feeble and timid console themselves for their inability to seize life as it should be seized. |
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And on it goes, each lame joke greeted with feeble, self-regarding applause and laughter that comes like a slow belch. |
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For a representative of a party caricatured for being rather feeble and spineless, he has been strikingly resolute throughout the crisis. |
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The independent counsel's unprecedented challenge to the presidency evoked the most feeble and cowardly response from these quarters. |
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I don't care if it's part of underground culture or whatever other feeble excuse you've got, it's just plain rude. |
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I didn't want to ask to sleep next to her because the words sounded feeble in my head, like a child was saying them. |
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It always sounds so pathetic when you refer to it, like some sort of feeble attempt to impress. |
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These sound pretty feeble reasons for Tony Blair to flunk the great test of his leadership. |
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When I re-read it in later years I realized that the plot was unrealistic, the dialogue feeble and the characterization nil. |
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I could tell you that I only cry when I'm very sad or hurt, but those are feeble excuses, inadequate reasons for condoning my shameful crime. |
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You'd end up writing a very pale and feeble imitation of a novel if you did that. |
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However, those campaigns were no more than the feeble shouting of the weak, and did not impact the security and interests of other countries. |
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On the contrary, the arguments are vague, slippery, feeble, circular or false. |
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But was there any reason besides political correctness to produce such a feeble, boring piece in the first place? |
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But of course, we all know that this feeble rubbish is only a weak-kneed attempt to be amusing. |
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Later, when the screenplay makes a feeble attempt to give them individual traits, it's too late. |
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She balled her fists and struck out at him, her efforts feeble and ineffectual. |
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He stuck unswervingly to his opinion that the West was too feeble, too worn out, and too decadent to begin the war seriously. |
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This should have triggered a warning to my feeble little mind, yet the emptiness remained unnoticed. |
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Or is it that any bond with a nonspeaking creature is proof of congenital feeble mindedness? |
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Sure enough, about 15 minutes later the tap sputtered and a feeble flow of water began. |
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My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed. |
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The Liberal Democrats cower behind a feeble pledge to establish a Royal Commission on cannabis. |
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Imagination, then plays upon our fears when there is feeble light, making us see ghouls and hobgoblins in every shadow that moves. |
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The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others. |
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But by game's end, all you've managed to do is hit four feeble infield dribblers and bounce three throws to first base. |
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Isn't my sputtering rather feeble compared to the inspired apocalyptic rants being posted by some world class ranters? |
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So come on you apathetic lot, let's hear your feeble excuses for staying away. |
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Margaret turned round to walk alongside of the girl in her feeble progress homeward. |
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Each and every further utterance of these feeble claims, simply illustrates the ignorance and contempt in which these people view the military. |
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He tried to find his voice, but it was difficult for him to manage anything but a feeble sounding grunt. |
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Some appeared to be very sick and feeble while there were also young men and women in best of health and vigour. |
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All the helpless pipi could do, was spurt a feeble squirt of water and die between your teeth. |
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I'm not going to say you're so feeble that you let the tabloid press walk over you. |
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What political party has ever gone to the country with such a feeble platform? |
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Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble. |
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In the latter stages they attempted a frantic counter-attack but the ball play was feeble. |
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It consisted of one mostly empty dumpster with feeble flames contesting with the northwestern drizzle. |
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The music was obvious and predictable, and the lyrics were about as feeble as I've ever heard. |
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And yet, 40 percent of us will die after a period of protracted debility and feeble dementia stretching on average for some seven to 10 years. |
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This is the current king of the hybrids, although its feeble performance limits its appeal to card-carrying enviros. |
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Your users are so feeble minded you're lucky they can manage a keyboard without filling it with dribble. |
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He says that wit always has truth for its object, and is the father of acute sayings, whereas feeble fancy is the mother of argute sayings. |
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Flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely. |
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I am excused from heavy duty by the Surgeon for ten days on account of my feeble condition. |
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The civil liberties case against ID cards is a feeble one that belongs to a more innocent age. |
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It was evident that this now feeble woman was once influential and helped shape her past. |
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Cut out the feeble wisecracks, stop showing cynical disrespect for ordinary decent folks! |
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The only conceivable outcome of this feeble wetness will be some free publicity. |
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In a feeble attempt to not be noticed, she averted her eyes from the building and began to draw. |
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Heavy, overbearing guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns. |
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With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail. |
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Excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last. |
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My most feeble Harvest Festival gift was a few apples harvested from our manky back garden tree and a nearly unopened jar of raspberry jam. |
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He rolled a feeble shot 10 yards wide of goal and then misplaced a pass to Cole. |
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As a proportion of the electorate, they have a mandate so feeble it would make many a local councillor blush. |
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Suddenly, the feeble figure on the bed leapt up with a balletic movement, and, clutching its stomach, sprinted towards the toilet. |
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Is it just his feeble attempt to ensure that I know he is the boss and the one who wears the trousers? |
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Although this must rank as one of the most feeble Welsh sides ever to cross the Severn, Scotland had enough to see them off in the end. |
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And you can do it backside too so that you end up ollieing over into a regular switch feeble. |
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England should not have stood by and seen a feeble people robbed without raising a note of remonstrance. |
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He considers himself feeble, unable to keep afloat on the troubled waters of his times. |
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In a feeble gesture toward appeasing cardiologists everywhere, I sopped some of the fat off the top with more paper towels. |
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The general unbearableness of one-leggedness combined with sock uncertainty soon warped Wilf's feeble mind. |
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The feeble point of light to the right of the star is the newly found cold companion. |
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It was a pointed but ultimately feeble attempt to rouse more ire against the chief executive. |
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Through dry, cracked lips, I began a feeble attempt at reassurance, but was immediately interrupted. |
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The reaction so far has been a sweeping condemnation of the team's hitters, who are described as inept and puny and feeble. |
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Everyone adores money, why not the doctors, I asked, in a feeble attempt to defend my colleagues and take the easy way out of a pointless argument. |
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She saw the feeble rays of the sun barely peeping out into the sky. |
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As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow. |
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I tried to explain my doubtless feeble joke, but my critic was having none of it, delivering her rebuke and, having had her stern say, ringing off. |
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Upon seeing the seemingly weak and feeble counterpart behind him, he merely turned his attention back to blocking the other two and trying to escape. |
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That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether. |
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So far, the Bank of England's attempts to slow the consumer boom here look to have been as feeble as placing matchsticks in the path of an oncoming train. |
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It may have been too early to celebrate a nascent political vitality that remains, for now, too feeble and limited to convince that democracy is finally within our grasp. |
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Some of your ideas might sound feeble, even to your own ears. |
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There in the kitchen, they made a feeble breakfast of cereal and milk. |
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The specimen before me has the same part of a dull testaceous color, being not at all conspicuous and in feeble contrast with the black ground color. |
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After dinner was finished, Audrey retired to the drawing room, where she began reading in a feeble attempt to divert her mind from the day's activities. |
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During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems. |
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Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase. |
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But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid. |
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Legal scholars have concluded that half of the last 10 retirees have been too feeble or inattentive to fully participate in the work of the court. |
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Later, despite his feeble protestations, she petulantly chucks him out. |
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We were always agreed, in good Augustinian fashion, that in a fallen world our best is but a faint intimation of, a feeble gesture toward, what ought to be. |
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It makes you wonder if they buy a bag of balloons, sit blowing them up then stick a pin in them just to get their buzz and to satisfy their feeble minds. |
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You know sometimes when the pitcher sees the guy on first inching his way towards second and pegs the ball to the first baseman, in a feeble attempt to get the fella out? |
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And there always seems to be some feeble excuse or other in an attempt to defend their illicit actions, rather than admitting that most of them are just downright bad. |
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It's no wonder that so much of the church is feeble today when so much of the church denies the centrality and cruciality and efficacy of the cross. |
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However, Plato and Aristotle each called for the exposure of feeble infants. |
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Our feeble attempts to push back the Grim Reaper only sharpen its cruel bite, not dull it. |
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There were electric lamps in the ceiling, but the light was feeble and the power intermittent. |
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They have already cast an evil spell over the weak and feeble King Henry. |
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A small feeble middle aged man, wearing a white coat and glasses. |
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Truth be told, it's great and, weak and feeble as I can be, I love it. |
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Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one? |
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Just to test it, they'll go on the computer or meet with friends even when they know they're grounded, counting on our feeble recollective abilities to get away with it. |
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The grumblings, however, may be less an indication of an impending military revolt than the last feeble lashing out of those weaned on the old ways. |
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It's a prank by an employee or a feeble joke by the management. |
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Her voice was the volume of a hamster's adorable, feeble squeak. |
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It's a word which shows a feeble mind and a tendency to brutishness. |
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He cries weakly, the effort clearly straining his feeble body. |
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Note the tautology in the first sentence, the feeble attempt at punnery. |
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A little head peeped out of the broken egg, making a feeble sound. |
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Morientes shoots, but his feeble effort is no match for Carlo Cudicini. |
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Now they will be ever more resolute not to repeat such a feeble feat. |
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A feeble star nearby looks the same as a very bright star far away, since stars, in general, cannot be resolved even by the most powerful telescopes. |
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A galvanoscope is an instrument or apparatus, such as a magnetic needle, for detecting the presence and direction of electric currents, specially those of feeble intensity. |
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He didn't realize how much it hurt until I gave out a feeble cry. |
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There are toddlers, feeble octogenarians walking while reading a prayer book, and even a pilgrim with a brass trumpet who is eager to serenade the company. |
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We pollute, but our feeble efforts at cleanup have been largely unsuccessful. |
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However, a feeble turn-out will give the anti-hunting majority within Labour ranks the opportunity to close in for the kill and force through an outright ban. |
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The limp untheatricality and stale visual aesthetic of the production are feeble responses to the elemental power and ecstatic lyricism of Wagner's score. |
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In this kind of world, the weak and feeble minded are cast to the side to die an unambiguous death, while the strong and wise go on to live a fruitful, long life. |
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It has been known for years that the test is illogical and is a joke, but they have enough clout to be able to persuade a weak government and feeble ministers. |
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Other performers, again, are remarkable for vivacity of action and elocution, who nevertheless are felt to be feeble and ineffective in rousing an audience to emotion. |
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A feeble card table covered in a plastic table cloth struggled to support a cheesy punch bowl surrounded by untouched cups and overflowing snack baskets. |
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In this time of war and destruction, a fearful thought, a threatening glance, were common and yet they still played with a weak mind or a feeble soul. |
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Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal. |
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But if he was prepared to pay o the invaders with Danegeld, his people were not so feeble, as was shown by the men of Essex. |
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Cute ickle monsters take on evil Dr Strangeglove in a feeble kiddie animation derived from a website gaming franchise fad. |
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This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows. |
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In old age, Mungo became very feeble and his chin had to be set in place with a bandage. |
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It was a bird, a small hawkling. A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings. |
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Let's start with the current Gaffa, why doesn't Cameron drop the feeble Everyman act and just toff it up big time. |
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Immeasurably perturbed by the possibility of Angelica's loss, Orlando continues to deceive himself with feeble ratiocinations. |
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Our great hive minds can instantly read their feeble mental projections from even this distance. |
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Glocalisation syndrome is slowly sweeping in and the effect is still found to be feeble. |
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There, the Abbasids still maintained a feeble show of authority, confined to religious matters, under the Mamluks. |
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A show based on relentless misery, with feeble plots and fewer big characters by the w eek. |
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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. |
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Paul Anderson swung in a corner and Loach made a feeble attempt to keep out a header from skipper Luke Chambers. |
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Strontium works as well as Forteo, a parathyroid-like hormone, on feeble bone and works better than biphosphate on bone density. |
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No longer do we have to justify the existence of humid tropical forests on the feeble grounds that they might carry plants with drugs that cure human disease. |
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Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball. |
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I also understand that many sheeple have no concept of a combat mindset and therefore fear the unknown and make feeble attempts to strike out at those who do. |
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The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. |
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The postembryos of most species exhibit long periods of immobility interrupted at lengthy intervals by feeble contractions of the legs and rudimentary mouthparts. |
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His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm. |
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His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. He was feeble, and his hands were tremulous with a perpetual nervous motion. |
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The effect was devastating, the shocked Incas offered such feeble resistance that the battle has often been labeled a massacre, with the Inca losing 2,000 dead. |
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In its original form, some of this work was relatively feeble. |
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