| 单词 | feeble |
| 例句 | Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “It was early in the morning,” the sheriff explained, knowing that for Milagro there could not be a more feeble excuse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He smacked his lips and forced a feeble smile. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z With each feeble pulse I felt a corresponding stitch of pain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I fear that Therese’s mind is made feeble by her suffering. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the feeble column. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As she threw the lily back into the coffin, her feeble aim would send it flying directly into my whitened face. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last! Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But then Sticky, catching his eye, nodded as usual and gave a feeble thumbs-up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He grumbles, making feeble attempts to shake them off. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “An old woman’s hand, I am thinking, wrinkled and feeble. I pray Daenerys returns to us soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His lip was trembling, and in the absence of his usually toothy grin, he looked weak-chinned and feeble. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Meggie wanted to put her hands over her ears so as not to hear the feeble tinkling sounds the fairy was making. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The afternoon’s last feeble light filtered down from the windows above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dimly I saw a hearth fire casting its feeble light upon the uneven plaster walls of a small cottage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Caution had become, to her, feeble and faithless. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From here, the giant peak looks terribly far away, something small and feeble and half hidden by clouds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a feeble attempt to squelch the idea of inviting her, I put the onus back on them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Deprecate used to mean “ward off by prayer,” meticulous once meant “timid,” and silly went from “blessed” to “pious” to “innocent” to “pitiable” to “feeble” to today’s “foolish.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When informed of this, he stopped and said Tally-ho, what?” in a feeble voice, then relapsed into silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is your ‘Society for Humanity’ which is strong in the North, but naturally fails to find many recruits in tired, old Europe, which is quite willing to let feeble Humanity alone for a while. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Will tried to pull away, and his feeble tug woke a response from the man, whose hand hadn’t loosened. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison—and about to run out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was something in the way the old woman carried herself, strong despite her feeble body, unbothered by the jungle’s danger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly I began to scream, getting up in the darkness and plunging wildly about, bumping against walls, scattering coal, and in my anger extinguishing my feeble light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pow,” he echoed softly, tentatively doubling up his fist and giving a feeble swing. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Even the nightfire shrank and grew feeble, to the dismay of the queen’s men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was black inside and the feeble glow of the flashlight did not help much. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But John was staring at the door that held back the music; towards which, with an insistence at once furious and feeble, his hands were still outstretched. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z This smarted a little, and Amarante croaked a string of feeble curses as he limped around in the road, amazed by what a flabby uncoordinated old geezer he had become. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira sighed, and with a feeble gesture she inserted the needle into the cloth as he held the frame for her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A bus crash, a feeble hand reaching for help…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As if a feeble hand had reached up from the coffin depths in one last desperate attempt to live before the dirt was shoveled in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The streets were covered with ice and soot-flecked snow and from above a feeble sun filtered through the haze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanley made a feeble attempt to punch Zigzag, then he felt a flurry of fists against his head and neck. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z A lard an his cushioned chair might be crippled—the Walders said their grandfatfacr was so feeble he had to be carried everywhere in a litter—but not a knight on his destrier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m sorry,” said Will, “but that sounds feeble to me. If you had any confidence in your secret, you wouldn’t need an excuse to see Lord Asriel.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But eventually I accept that the poison must have finally worked its way out of my system, leaving my body wracked and feeble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Arcady—he had called his new country after his old—was a feeble state, he said, and could do little to help the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They chose to ignore our calls for discipline and thought our advice feeble and unassertive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, incredibly, they all suddenly looked almost senile, feeble beyond belief. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort was supposed to be far away, in some distant country, in hiding, alone . . . feeble and powerless. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sometime near daybreak the feeble light from the electric bulb that had helped them through the night flickered out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z You take a feeble swipe at the dark and think, Christ, what’s the point? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a bright flame, only a feeble, orange light, fussing and spitting in the damp air. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Errol opened one bleary eye, gave a feeble hoot of thanks, and began to gulp some water. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a feeble sort of evasion, a sad rag wrapped around his wounded word. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few feet above him, pale yellow sunlight shone through a grating; the feeble beam ended abruptly on a wall of rough, damp stone. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z His single attempt to get hold of the memory suddenly seemed embarrassingly feeble. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “You must stop,” he said as she set him on an upturned oil drum, in the feeble light of one of those anbaric bulbs that swung on its cable overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Their master was too feeble to climb ladders; the middle-aged mistress too stout. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Only at the farthest end was there some feeble light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Now and then the womenfolk called on him to throw fear into someone, but I knew that he was feeble and was not frightened of him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an old man in the front yard, very old and thin and weak; he hobbled forward, glaring with feeble, toothless rage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The feeble attempt at magic was too much for Harry’s wand, which split into two again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But after the feeble attempts of Cletus and me to deal with this house empty of its Small Medium at Large, he turned back. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was lying on my bed, watching the shadows my feeble lamp cast on the ceiling, when I heard my father’s voice at the door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Renewing then my courage, and gathering my feeble remains of strength, I pushed on. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s a feeble excuse, but she nods, anyway, and then heads toward the back without another word. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The pot was soot-black and the feeble flames that licked its sides showed pale pink and bordered with black, like flames in mourning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The clouds were low, but the half moon was lower still and shone a gray, feeble light on their quilted undersides. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The flaw in this plan was that there were really no feeble players in the tournament; they were all, if not world class, then at least of national or international renown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sumac stirred with these feeble signs of the dawn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A feeble light burned above the entrance, sparkling the snow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be better to enter alone; he must not appear feeble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The feeble shouts of the men on the Docker were lost in the pounding of the waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z How feeble our Voices, but how glorious is our Praise of the ALMIGHTY! The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘It was only a feeble blow and the cap turned it,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She holds her hands to the feeble flame that burns on one end of a charred log. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The Sun will become a red giant star, its visible surface so far from its interior that the gravity at its surface grows feeble, its atmosphere expanding into space in a kind of stellar gale. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He entered almost on tiptoe, suggesting to me that someone else was in the set of chambers, and, within, lit a tallow candle which shed but a very feeble light. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Behind them came the feeble old Committee member and the executioner, Macnair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He tries to resist, but his hand is too feeble. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But he judged, from the dull and muffled sound, that the walls were too thick for his feeble tapping to penetrate. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father’s arms. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was so feeble I could hardly see to write. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I tried to fake a smile, but all I could manage was a feeble upturning of the corners of my mouth—my stomach was turning at the sight of my father bonding with Assef. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The fire Nathan had started to cook dinner shone brighter than the feeble glow of the setting sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Benjamin Rush emerged from the epidemic emaciated, feeble, and haunted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z His feeble hand resting lightly atop the mammoth gun lying on the bar, Amarante said, “Sometimes it’s necessary to carry a gun.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Fate, of course, which had costumed him—Fate, and a feeble will to survive. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What feeble objection of mine could carry the weight of ten pounds of currency? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a feeble movement of his arms, and I knelt beside him and clasped them round my neck, holding them there, for he was too weak. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It lay on its back and waved its feeble legs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nay, nay, my lord,” said Sir Ector, with some very feeble old tears. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I cross my arms over my chest in a feeble attempt to keep myself warm. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Its arms and legs were thin and feeble, and its face — no child alive ever had a face like that — flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z With only his feeble flashlight for illumination, he fought through the piled-up garbage, climbing over wedged chairs, crates, and broken partitions. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But after she had been with them, she could feel the truth in their fists and in their greedy feeble love-making; but it was a truth which she had no English words for. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I would wake up full of rage, a feeble shaky rage that turned into feeble tears. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They prevented people with feeble eyes from learning to see the world on their own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The sea breeze cooled the sun, too, which shone whiter and feebler against aging clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z When I saw her in the light— After the darkness, the feeble light of the paraffin lamp had seemed very bright. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Off to one side rose a feeble column of smoke—a thin, wavering distortion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She was struggling against me with all her feeble strength. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Love her as in childhood Though feeble, old and grey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I could have tracked her down—I was, after all, a reporter—but after a couple of feeble attempts I gave up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A feeble pounding came from the other boxcar. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Spurge said, “Thank you for the opportunity to explain, my lord. I was worried my feeble transmissions could not convey the whole complexity of the energy-making process.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They become feeble and tremble, they want warmth and life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The ribbons were speckled with dead flies and a few that made feeble attempts to pull loose. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, when it was so dark they could hardly see the path, Robin pointed out a feeble light. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He waved a hand, a feeble gesture of haste from a man no longer capable of hastening. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I started with my high-school diploma, applying one precious match with a feeling of remote irony, even smiling as I saw the swift but feeble light push back the gloom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That said, the established U.S. methods of keeping guns away from the people who do cause crime are, at best, feeble. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly her idea seemed too feeble for words. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When Ira was nearing six, my mother was afflicted with consumption, and was soon so feeble that she could not rise from her bed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The vegetation, feeble as it was, died, and the earth cracked open. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She found herself in a spacious room with black walls and thick black curtains on the windows, through which not even a feeble ray of sunlight filtered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A feeble gray paw emerged from the pile behind them, struggling to evade their grasp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I know that you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My bonnet was a feeble shield against this sun. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We wish to make God subordinate to our human understanding with its vain and feeble probabilities; yet it is he who has made both us and all we know. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I laughed, and Nana offered me a feeble smile in return. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “It would be merciful if there were no breath,” he muttered, and then he heard the feeble cry—how feeble a cry!—hang for an instant upon the stillness. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The gauges, this time, registered almost nothing: only a feeble and momentary tremor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Hitler now understood with absolute clarity the feeble resolve of the powers to his west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His voice had grown feeble, as if he were losing hope. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Let her noble husband make the speeches and laugh at the feeble Yunkish japes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I also wait through the long Advent nights that are lit by a feeble white moon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As he left the cornfield, Nathan looked at the feeble fence. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I stumbled over an obstacle: my head was still dizzy, my sight was dim, and my limbs were feeble. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ve heard him say, to one of the hovering women who was making feeble attempts to corral some of the moldier clutter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then the giant tail makes a feeble slap, but the strength is fading and pretty soon that tail will stop moving forever. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And he would hunt small stones and throw them with his feeble arm into the little pool to scare the fish, and in the mean ways of a mischievous child he expressed his anger. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Southside shops were featuring feeble wreaths and lights, made more feeble by the tacky Yuletide streamers and bells the city had strung up on the lampposts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully, very carefully, I climbed from the tent and put on the flashlight, which cast a distressingly feeble beam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z What if my mother had held the mirror wrong and had missed Lynn’s feeble breath? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I meant to speak urgently, but my voice was feeble. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Daylight was creeping around the cracks of the world when Janie heard a feeble rap on the door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I told them the feeble plan I’d half-baked inside of the gas station. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Natural Selection...is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My protest seemed a feeble one now, and Hamlet ignored it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After a few feeble attempts to free themselves, the Ridgefolk crumpled to the floor, paralyzed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Granny was too feeble to walk across the block three times a day, especially during heavy weather, so May brought food to her in the barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z His sister, conscious of having been robbed of something, had set up a feeble wail. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “What say”—Dad’s jolliness was forced and feeble—“we get ourselves that bacon sandwich?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Lyra looked down at her, anguished; but then she stepped over her mother’s body and loosened Mrs. Coulter’s feeble clutch from her ankle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At first, Taran could make out only indistinct shapes, touched with a feeble green glow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Heavy rains washed the outside mud plaster off their house, and he was too feeble now to mix up fresh plaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you must have lied when you told me all those things ... you must have, because I can’t believe your love is really that feeble.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His feeble mind sensed that these questioners wanted something of him and, being a friendly creature, he tried to give it to them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She did not answer, but merely crossed out a few of his feebler sentences in a weary sort of way. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At some places, an anbaric cable looped down from a bracket and provided enough feeble current to power a naked lightbulb or two, strung out over the nearby huts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Their candles made only a feeble glow, but they could tell that the path was quite wide. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He indicated his abdomen with a feeble hand wave. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She had a warrior’s heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her magic felt feeble, as though some river within herself were dry. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t want any souls!” he said in a feeble, apologetic way. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They are all rather feeble, for they only get enough nourishment to keep them from starving. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On and on she coughed, her feeble body shaking as I tried to hold on to her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She would slowly grow old, without family or children, until she was too feeble to climb the tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved slowly off, toward the darker blackness, lighting my way by these feeble torches. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even by the feeble light of the two wands, Harry could see that a great change had come over Bagman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Used her imminent arrival and feeble attempt at murder as an exercise of his will against hers— an ultimatum to the universe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there, he became so feeble and frail that he could barely leave the villa they had rented. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes a feeble attempt to get me to talk again but, seeing it’s pointless, sends me to a bath someone has drawn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Frightful heard the feeble cry of her chick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He lies in a large room and receives us with feeble expressions of joy and helpless agitation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently, under her gentle stroking, she felt a throaty vibration, then heard a rusty, feeble purring. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That light weight in the car, those feeble hands clutching the reins, had told them their own driver was not there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Virginian rebels knew this: Their rifles’ range and accuracy extended far beyond the feeble throw of our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z After a few feeble attempts to interrogate her, he handed her a lollipop and sent the family home. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She could not stand; he had to hold her up, aware of some feeble movement or intention in her limbs until he realised that she was trying to sit on the bottom step. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lemoncello waved a feeble wave and disappeared into his private suite on the third floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z They felt so feeble in his iron strength. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I do the same—exit the car, I mean—but my grip on reality is feeble at best. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I rub my hands together for the feeble warmth as I pass by the door of the refectory, where the nuns eat in silence, their heads bent in a row over their food. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large, watchful eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As rickety and feeble as I felt, it was obvious that everyone else except Stuart Hutchison was faring even worse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Poor Errol, who was elderly and feeble, had needed a full five days to recover from the journey. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a moment before his eyes, blinded by the feeble lantern-flame, could make any form of the darkness. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have torn the metal cover off with my bare hands, the lock was so feeble, but I wanted to do things in a calm, orderly way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She looked more feeble than powerful, and hardly dangerous. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Others—the old, the young, the feeble—could scarce move at all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sam stared at the last of his pork pie and gave a feeble shake of his head, too scared even to talk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry’s brain, each more feeble than the last. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He pursued every feeble tremor in the dying body with his mace, hammering at it until it was stilled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking back, Omakayas could even remember him, sitting by the fire as close as he could without scorching, a tired-looking man, thin and scraggly braids, coughing and feeble. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “What d’you think I was doing?” asked Harry with feeble bravado. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When the bus stopped, in a feeble attempt to postpone the inevitable, I pretended to be looking for something. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother was the court of last resort on household matters; there was no appeal, but I laid out my next suggestion anyway, feeble as it was. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "Wrong, it was wrong, I . . . only a girl . . . Varys, Littlefinger, even my brother . . . worthless ... no one to tell me no but you, Ned . . . only you . . ." He lifted his hand, the gesture pained and feeble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z May it serve its purpose well, my feeble effort, and preserve my Child from the pitfalls of this world and bring her safe to her father’s arms in Heaven.’ The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z When old King Edrick Stark had grown too feeble to defend his realm, the Wolf’s Den was captured by slavers from the Stepstones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She thought he was feeble and helpless, but she would learn otherwise before the night was done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The man’s hand reached out and opened the door; a feeble red glare lit the man’s face as he stooped and looked inside at the bed of smoldering coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She was growing feeble as hunger weakened her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it: Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I will stab my enemy an unnecessary number of times, making some of the blows feeble and ineffective, and I will drop this handkerchief where no one can miss it.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she has to look in on Mr. Sliney he’s so old and feeble he forgets to call for the chamber pot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z ‘I declare,’ she said one day, ‘no business can be run with just a feeble old man and three of the most worthless boys in Boston—eating their heads off.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not ‘dreadful’, but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Precisely,” said the Fat Lady in a feeble voice, and swung forward to reveal the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The sun was feeble, wrapped in ragged gray clouds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It was merciful to give these parents a few details about the garden, a sweet feeble grandmother, food. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought again, harder, and shook my head with a look of feeble apology. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “A feeble protest, too little and too late.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Off to the east was a football game, and from the same direction came the feeble sound of a hymn being sung in unison, then fading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His absence was a stark reminder of just how conservative the Grammys remain, and how feeble they truly are as an engine for social change. The Grammys Want Us to Know That They’re Trying 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z And its soft power is feeble for a country of its size. The end is not nigh 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Even the feeble houseplant, symbolically undernourished in the light-deprived apartment, is promised a new life. Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z However rude a nation was in physical health, if its people were intellectually feeble, they would never become anything other than cannon fodder or gawping spectators . Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Occasionally he mustered feeble attempts to be receptive. ArtsBeat: Morley Safer Launches a Halfhearted Salvo in his War on the Art World 2012-04-02T16:30:26Z The great literature drummed into him by rote failed to truly penetrate his feeble mind. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z In America, folks protested against Trump's feeble efforts to control and contain the spread of the virus, claiming the government was disseminating lies. Nanfu Wang took "great risk" shooting HBO's damning COVID doc "In the Same Breath" in China 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z It is clearly lovingly made, with careful attention paid to its dairy inspiration; it puts up the same feeble resistance as my incisors cleave through. To brie or not to brie: can vegan 'cheese' taste as good as dairy? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z For a book about a man who claimed that “anybody can act, but the only one who can do what I do is me,” it’s an awfully feeble curtain-closer. What silenced the laughs for Mort Sahl, the once towering American comic? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Anna chimed in with "Kitty Come Home," beckoning her sister back to their native Canada to escape her husband's "feeble love." The Wainwright-McGarrigles: The Dysfunctional First Family of Folk-Pop 2011-05-10T19:55:00Z But then the play’s attempts to provide him with depth are feeble: He listens to jazz. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She’s exactly the sort of person I used to try to transform myself into every January, until I accepted I’m simply too psychologically feeble. 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z There’s nothing left for this once vivacious, insidiously confident force but to crawl miserably into bed like the feeble old woman she really is. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Asked if he wanted people to like the work he presented, he replied, with a smile: “Liking is such a feeble thing.” Empac Shrugs Popularity to Promote Creative Liberty in Troy, N.Y. 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Until his death nearly 14 years later, Zinaida would be unsympathetic to Pasternak’s feeble efforts to divorce her and marry Olga. Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The judges deemed it “better than last week,” which is pretty feeble praise. 'Dancing With the Stars' Watch: The First Cut Is the Deepest 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “I like to watch,” she told him at the time, her final and somewhat feeble plea before being whisked to hair and makeup and gussied up for her star turn. Model Mom 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Dotty is the marquee attraction, a once-beloved television star now reduced to headlining this shabby tour of a feeble play. Review: Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ Returns to Broadway 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The next day, I watched him pose for photos for more than an hour with fans, including a feeble old woman who waited until the very end to speak to him. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z This was a feeble attempt at humour right? The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Directed by Jessica M. Thompson, “The Invitation” makes feeble gestures at issues of class and race, but its efforts are as diffuse as the whooshing specters haunting Walter’s estate. ‘The Invitation’ Review: Bringing Down the Haunted House 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Images of Weinstein’s feeble entrances into court rocketed around social media: a dishevelled man slouched over a walker, trailed by his lead defence lawyer, a woman. Highlights from Harvey Weinstein's rape trial 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Banks cultivated plausible deniability, their internal oversight systems too feeble to pin responsibility on any individual; Goldman executives used the abbreviation LDL — “let’s discuss live” — to hide their traces. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “Future Home of the Living God” — the title comes from a roadside church sign — is a feverish and somewhat feeble novel. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Musically, the weekend turned out to be as feeble as anyone could have expected. The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z “Women are feeble, narrow, frivolous at present, ignorant of their own capacities,” she complained. Two Sisters Who Changed the Medical Profession 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z For one, don’t be put off by its feeble cover, a sentimental photograph of a cute and smiling Middle Eastern girl sitting beside a pile of cut pink flowers. Books of The Times: Culinary Comfort in a Tumultuous Middle East 2011-02-06T18:07:19Z Then, in a rather feeble exchange, Benedict Cumberbatch appears as a hostage negotiator contacting Waj in a London cafe he's occupied. Four Lions 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z There is no more dramatically imaginative choreographer today, and yet sometimes that imagination looks feeble. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z Why had I made feeble attempts at small talk when his body language was clearly telling me he wanted nothing to do with me? When It's Okay to Walk Out of a Date 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z If they are overcrowded, they will be inherently weaker but also stretch more, and the result is something lofty but feeble. Giving plants the space they need: Why we thin veggies but crowd a hedge 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It refers to "a boring or unpopular person, a stupid or feeble person". When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z As for regaining paradise, suggestions here are relatively feeble. ‘Back to Eden,’ at the Museum of Biblical Art 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Though he has a Ph.D. from Harvard in East Asian studies, he’s working as a program manager at a feeble public radio station in Baltimore. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine,’ a Novel About Changing Race 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z That the feeble machinations of this breathless action thriller are based in a semblance of spy-trade truth does help its hurtling narrative seem slightly less preposterous. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z "I was very feeble back then, too weak to tie up a chicken," he said, using a Chinese phrase for a weakling. Body-building site: Shi the laborer swings to China online fame 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Do people still age, their bodies becoming weaker, and just carry on in a feeble state? ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival I lack skills in all of those arenas to a truly hopeless degree, and the fact that there are people in the world who grasp those concepts is beyond my feeble comprehension. Hooray for “worthless” education! 2014-03-27T17:07:00Z But the men all look sort of feeble, staring down at their bowls, chewing away. “I tell myself I will quit bingeing when I get diabetes”: Tales of a sugar addict 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Secular rituals, particularly rituals whose point is co-operation itself, have proved too feeble to provide that support. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Sometimes the winter sky is gray and sunless, a feeble pewter glow so ably depicted in Dutch landscape paintings. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But the core of the show is more feeble. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z The series has had a troubled genesis: historians have questioned its veracity, members of the Kennedy family have called it a rightwing hatchet job, and it's now getting critical flak as feeble drama, too. Tom Wilkinson: down with the big boys 2011-04-05T20:30:00Z He plods from there to the ramp and back again, occasionally offering feeble waist-high waves to passing cars, greeting those who will hopefully dispense emergency funds to his cause. “Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Instead poor Lynda found herself banished to the loo as the crowds broke into somewhat feeble cheers. The Archers: Camilla takes the biscuit 2011-02-16T19:48:53Z He’s fearless, a quality that frequently manifests itself in the sound and effect of his voice: it cracks and spits, carries feeble melodies, bears the weight of rich stories. REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z What hope the entreaties of a feeble voice against the collective mind-set of legions of landscapers? It’s tree-pruning season. Here’s how to do it without resorting to ‘crape murder.’ 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z At one point, Garth pages through Benjamin’s journal and naïvely reads an entry aloud: “Thursday: Purchase feeble cable access show and exploit it. Whoa, I feel sorry for whoever that is.” ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In fact, I barely have a long weekend and now my agenda — scuba dive, relax and repeat — suddenly sounds feeble. In the Bahamas, Cat Island offers spectacular diving and solitude for miles 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z And until now, the effort to reach latin audiences has been feeble. Why are so many films for Latinos bad? 2011-01-28T15:01:00Z That was presumably the case with the entertaining but often baffling 2010 action-comedy Let the Bullets Fly, another former Chinese No 1, which grossed a feeble $69,000 in the States. Lost in Thailand: did China's comedy hit get lost in translation? 2013-02-13T16:50:12Z I go to the tip and bleed the radiators and indulge in a kind of feeble pantomime where I pretend to know what’s wrong with the car before taking it to the garage. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z But Boyle's material has very little context, apart from, in his TV series, being surrounded by feeble and wearisome sketches. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z Now at 64, she was feeble, nearly blind, the diabetes that would plague her until the end of her life some agonizing years later already crippling her ability to walk. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z "Singing is happening all the time when we're talking, but our brains are just too feeble to parse it as music," explains Michael Gregory. Youtube if you want to... 2011-02-16T02:52:54Z “The Greatest” allows the release of only a feeble trickle. Movie Review | 'The Greatest': Sarandon and Brosnan as Grieving Parents 2010-04-01T22:17:00Z And yet, even the feeblest nature lovers feel the sap rising, which is surely to the good. Of course this gardener is ‘getting ready for spring.’ He never stopped. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It’s the hurdle that trips up most stalwarts who are rhyming over outmoded dubstep or trap beats in a feeble effort to stay current. How does a 45-year-old rapper stay relevant in a genre that feeds off youth? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He calls the accusation "a feeble attempt to get publicity." 'Jersey Shore' cast member won't face Fla. charges 2010-06-16T19:26:00Z I cannot remember if I thought of my father as powerful, but I can remember being surprised at seeing him feeble, stubbly, and slow. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z “Roots” still ranks as one of the most viewed television series in history, but numbers are a feeble measure. ‘Roots,’ the Series That Had Everyone Talking 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Complicity and guilt, specifically survivor’s guilt, and feeble good intentions that might not even rate the name, yeah, that’s my turf, in this piece and elsewhere. Jonathan Lethem on Hollywood Collaborations 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “No matter how old or feeble I become,” the homeowner says, “it will be a place of comfort, an oasis amid the frenetic pace of the city.” Bruce Budd Redecorates Houston Mansion 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Rhythmically swaying her body, in imitation of her adored Shirley Bassey, the wig glowed and glinted under the feeble electric lightbulb, on that dreary day, adding just a touch of much-needed magic. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z These are judgment calls, issued on a case-by-case basis, and sometimes dictated by feeble and selfish rationales. Critic’s Notebook: Deciding How to Expose Children to Challenging Cultural Fare 2012-10-28T21:36:29Z What happened was, in the mid-1970s my old Royal typewriter was not delivering as it always had been – it was getting a little feeble. A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z He is cautious and feeble; she is wary and sharp, able to level him with a stare. A Novel of Infidelity in Dialogue with Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment” 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Its token effort to find hope, in an interview with one Louisiana resident who has installed solar panels in his house, is feeble compared with its anger. | 'The Big Fix': ?The Big Fix? and Big Oil ? Review 2011-12-02T00:31:58Z After the colossal, insane "No" flung at the modern world in Seven Days to Noon, these films offer the feeblest of protests. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z Don’t be put off by this book’s feeble title. Review: When the Digital World Is Judging Your Every Thought 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He was frail and wouldn’t want to live a feeble life, in a chair, unable to plunge into the lake and take his signature quick strokes out from the dock and back. Modern Love: Sad News Like a Warm Hug Goodbye 2012-08-09T20:31:28Z This morning – I cast him a feeble look, which he deflects with one of what you might call gracious pity – it took me longer than that to get of the house. Chesley Sullenberger: an old-fashioned kind of hero 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Used by anyone else, this would just have been a feeble pun, but when said by him it is side-splittingly funny. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-06-02T17:00:01Z But the industry is known for churning out slapdash films with feeble story lines, amateurish acting and sloppy production values. Nollywood Seeks a Hit With ‘Doctor Bello’ 2012-09-23T03:17:19Z “If you have a genuine love for a thing, you don’t see the lighthearted aspects as weak or feeble.” A Curator Unbound: First She Was Fired. Then She Found Freedom 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z It's an idea that may sound, on the face of it, feeble. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z Despite a feeble and aborted attempt to run away with the bread delivery guy, hacker chick is now part of the gang whether she likes it or not. 'The Strain' recap: 'Creatures of the Night' closes in, and a major death 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Often the music they made, particularly Mr. Nelson’s, felt feeble, embodying slow decline. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z It is a rather feeble liberal-humanist note to end on, but there is fascination in this story of an idealist, torn in two by history. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – review 2012-08-29T12:02:00Z The contrast between his shocked moral persistence and Greenberg's feeble apologies was telling: it left the same feeling as when MPs were caught out with their expenses. Rewind radio: Who provided the best phone-hacking coverage? 2011-07-09T23:06:06Z The similarities end there; the young men embody radically different visions of Dominican masculinity, one boldly self-assured and the other emphatically feeble. ‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “The thing that looms largest is making sure the budget to the most feeble among us is not cut,” said Williams. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Crimson Peak,” released by Universal Pictures, collected a feeble $12.8 million. Family-Friendly 'Goosebumps' Wins the Box Office 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Directed by Mr. Mamet, with a comic-strip flatness that does the script no favors, this hot-ticket production at the Garrick Theater is as feeble and facile as most of the reviews would have it. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It was kind of distressing to see Ms. Jackson looking and sounding so feeble, and a relief when she became her trenchant self again during breaks. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z A substandard comedy that received, let’s just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new production testing whether contemporary star power can override feeble playwriting. Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key lend star power to 'Meteor Shower,' but it's still space junk 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z At times the production seems to compound the fog of chaos to distract us from some feeble dramaturgy. Tyranny and resistance: Albert Camus' 1948 drama 'L’État de siège' carries new relevance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z There were moments where I was like, `Is this feeble now?' Thom Yorke readies tour with Atoms For Peace 2013-05-31T12:27:07Z Because that’s all it was and the best I could manage — my feeble attempt to evoke a realm beyond words or sense. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z But it's pretty feeble for McDonagh to lose his nerve about this and get Hans to start complaining about gender politics on his behalf. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-06T15:29:02Z So many times, I see films where the woman is too feeble and I don't believe it. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z With reindeer lichen as tinder, we eventually coaxed a feeble flame from a pile of damp twigs to grill our steaks. Explorer: Far, Maybe Too Far, Into the Yukon 2012-08-23T17:33:18Z This is the most feeble of all Bartók scores because it isn’t Bartók. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z They were complementary opposites, and Burne-Jones's mixed feelings of admiration, love and resentment were played out in the series of cartoons he drew of them, Burne-Jones always thin and feeble, Morris fat and energetic. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z No problem for the creators of this “liquid meal”, made from buckwheat, that allows you to nourish your feeble body in a manner that’s “easy to hide”. Foodfunding: Weird and wonderful culinary projects that need your money 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z They included political commentaries, feeble japes like “You are all under arrest” and crude cartoons. Art Review: Everyone?s 15 Minutes In a Culture of Celebrity 2011-01-13T22:44:50Z All in all this is a pretty feeble book, and its author is a bit of a drongo. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z But this time around I was saddened by their all-too-human eagerness to exaggerate their importance and brag about their feeble exploits. Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Indeed he is afraid of spiders, he tells us, and made a rather feeble groundskeeper on a golf course. Comedy gold: John Caparulo's Meet Cap 2013-04-18T12:07:20Z And the defiantly exultant concluding number, “Everyone Will Die,” suggests that a barricade of toys and blankets ultimately offers feeble protection from the big, wild world. Review: In ‘The Wildness,’ Defenses Against Adulthood 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z With no scenery to speak of except for one feeble little table, it looms as a black chasm that stretches far beyond the traditional barriers of walls and proscenium arches. Ivo van Hove Brings ‘Angels in America’ to BAM 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Logic, modesty and respect may protest in feeble voices that such co-option is questionable, but at present the idea is that everybody can – and should – know and tell everything about everybody. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z Your hawk follows you overhead by moving among the branches, its natural camouflage hiding it from feeble human eyes. Death from Above: Falconry in Scotland 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z Compare this moderate entertainment to, say, Monsters, Inc., and it really looks feeble. Rise of the Guardians – review 2012-11-29T21:45:01Z Less convincing is a new exhibition by the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who presents a rushed and feeble new suite of oil paintings that continues her project of fictionalized portraiture. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Sadly, there's far more woe than wah in this feeble attempt to create a British Bollywood musical, which seems to owe more to a dull episode of EastEnders than it does to rich traditions elsewhere. Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-01T11:50:47Z They are all diegetic — actual numbers performed by the characters — and are thus connected to the story, as in a jukebox musical, by only the feeblest of threads. Review: In ‘KPOP,’ Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Right now, we flail around, treating Eurovision as an excuse for another feeble reality show. Tom Ewing 2010-05-27T21:44:00Z The website PinkNews offered swift condemnation, calling the 79-year-old’s comments “a feeble attempt to prove that white men are the real victims”. Terry Gilliam faces backlash after labeling #MeToo a 'witch-hunt' 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z While that was an acceleration from the feeble growth rate of 1.8 percent in the summer, the latest GDP figure was below the 3 percent that most analysts were projecting. U.S. GDP growth quickens in Q4, but speed-bumps ahead 2012-01-27T13:42:00Z Schwartz also wrote a mass of inferior work and the tin-eared Atlas is forced to praise his feeble imitations of Eliot. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z In 1927, the American eugenics movement got a boost when the revered Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes endorsed the forced sterilization of a supposedly "feeble minded white woman" from Virginia named Carrie Buck. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Of course, each thinks they can easily out-pull feeble Hare, whom they regularly abuse and torment on account of his long floppy ears, twitching whiskers and inability to do anything but hop about. Picture book roundup - reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:07Z This is an emotional moment for me, and words seem so futile, so feeble. The 10 best film award acceptance speeches ? video 2011-01-16T00:05:28Z If dramatised by the Marquis de Sade, such scenarios would be proof of our determination to defy biology and to scandalise our feeble creator; for Baker they harmlessly add to the sum of human happiness. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble. Zoe Smith takes on everyone 2012-08-01T15:40:00Z A divorced 42-year-old mother of three adolescent girls, she is a volatile piece of work whose reaction to being fired is a feeble suicide attempt. | 'My Piece of the Pie': ?My Piece of the Pie? - Review 2011-12-09T02:19:48Z The scientists achieved this with fruit flies and other insects but did not succeed with mosquitoes, which were too feeble after sterilisation to compete in the wild. Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer? 2012-07-14T23:05:51Z The gags are stale and the sentimental ending feeble. Hall Pass ? review 2011-03-10T15:32:00Z There’s also an invigorating tension between feeling like the feeble mortal watching footage captured from Mt. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z For the rest of the movie, though, he plays the hapless hayseed and, with a feeble nod to Chaplin, a sad clown. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z Kate, no longer able to play the piano, is feeble and uses a wheelchair. ‘You’re Not You’ Stars Hilary Swank as a Pianist With A.L.S. 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z He argued, however, that Civilization later "loses sight of its themes", and mocked its "bizarre" view that the east will overtake the west partly because of our feeble history teaching. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-03-26T00:05:39Z The Dying Earth series included four books set far in the future, when “the sun is feeble and red” and “in the place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live.” Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z The scowl, the voice of gloomy fatalism, is much bigger in the new Alien episodes: films about the rise of robots in which the humans are usually messy, fleshy, venal and feeble. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Two feeble novels were to follow, but after a quarter of a century as America’s leading novelist, his effective career was over. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But she also said that the film’s endeavor to view Bloom as a victim and put a feminist spin on the story is a feeble one. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Molly’s Game’ and ‘Annihilation’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Her English males tend to be conventional, complacent, even feeble creatures, whose wives abandon them either for Indian lovers or for an itinerant life of seeking in vain for spiritual enlightenment. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: a passage to India 2013-04-05T12:56:01Z "They sing with a new confidence," Köhler said, making a comparison with the feeble, anxious sound of the choir he remembered from the bleak 1950s. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z From there I watched yachts in the bay at Charlotte Amalie looking feeble and small. A City-Size Cruise, With 4,200 Friends 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But Mr. Fritta’s imprisoned laborer is handsome and muscular, defying Hitler’s stereotype of Jews as feeble. ‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z "My fans may tune in for a minute, but at the end of the day, no one cares about your feeble show without me," Sheen writes. Charlie Sheen: There's no 'Men' without me 2011-04-29T23:43:00Z She tries to convey a mix of hopefulness and pathos, but she comes off as desperate and feeble. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Add on the aimless voice-over, flashbacks overdone to the point of diluting their meaning and a couple of feeble fight scenes, and “Snakehead” tumbles all too quietly under the weight of its ambition. ‘Snakehead’ Review: Nightmares on the Way to the American Dream 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Even the feeble attempts at humor don't work because the solemnity surrounding those moments stifles the capacity for joy, like a tiny match struck in an oppressively damp basement. Alita is a fascinating badass. "Alita: Battle Angel" fails her at every turn 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z "Last year the whole Oxford poetry professorship was brought down to the level of feeble gossip and intrigue which was all rather sad, and reflected badly on really everyone concerned," he said. Oxford poetry 2010-04-29T14:09:00Z “I greeted him with a feeble joke: ‘Welcome back! Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z These feeble gags have left me here with this sad look upon my face. Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z There was a dim light seeping in from somewhere, feeble rays for enough vision to discern that they were youths of no more than 20 years old. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z The reader’s feeble flashes of understanding are no match for Horowitz’s brand of three-dimensional chess, and the answers will be uncovered only through Susan’s expert textual analysis. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z This is the sort of feeble attempt to be edgy that an oafish wannabe provocateur like Morrison would surely produce. Oliver Stone's The Doors: a flash in the pan that won't light anyone's fire 2011-02-17T12:07:12Z These music videos are the heart of the MoMA show, compared to which everything else seems slightly feeble or undeveloped. Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In a requisite scene of one-on-one with Conners, he forgets to go easy and innocently bullies his feeble opponent all over the court. The Greatest Movie Performance by an Active Professional Basketball Player 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Bridget Jones is a prime example of someone who carries the flag for New Year's resolutions, but her willpower is almost as feeble as my jogging. Open Thread: New year's resolutions in fiction 2012-12-31T09:00:00Z “It emits the feeblest of light and needs a vast darkness around it to attract its prey.” Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, his body is turning gross and feeble. Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z So wondering what has happened in their careers that has led them to a play this feeble is probably the best in-flight entertainment “One November Yankee” can provide. ‘One November Yankee’ Review: TV Stars on a Bumpy Flight 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But the film finally fizzles into feeble melodrama, with all the power of an old episode of Grange Hill. Chatroom ? review 2010-12-23T23:01:00Z We resented their monopoly on cultural space, realizing that “boom” also described what their collective voice would always be, compared with our demographically feeble squeak. Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z Some aspects are undercooked: it's never quite clear why the sap is so feeble. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Supposedly feeble nerds launched a movement for libel reform and made it the most dynamic free speech campaign since the battle to overturn the ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson – review 2012-05-25T10:00:01Z As Mr. Indiana grew feeble, Mr. Thomas was given power of attorney, a position that included the ability to authorize what art was produced under the Indiana brand. The Artist’s Caretaker: Once He Controlled Everything. No More. 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The embarrassing spat is so feeble and poorly written, it doesn’t even qualify as camp. | 'Joyful Noise': ?Joyful Noise,? With Latifah and Parton - Review 2012-01-12T22:27:16Z The present government has shown every intention of weakening rather than strengthening the country's already feeble provisions for good design and planning. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z He is really hopeless, disastrous, feeble at telling the American story. Hay festival diary: Simon Schama's advice for Barack Obama 2010-05-31T17:13:00Z Bolstered by his performance metrics and his outside donors, Gladwell is determined to eradicate the feeble English department that persists like some tenacious mold in the basement of the Econ building. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Before that, efforts to introduce it were stymied by a soap-operatic cacophony of budget cuts, transit strikes, shoddy production and feeble management. Design: New York Subway's Long Dance With a Typeface 2011-04-03T15:00:06Z From any other designer that might sound like a rather feeble beginning. Fashion Review: Anne Valerie Hash Works Her Inspiration 2011-09-30T18:22:05Z I followed other diners to congregate under a feeble tent until it passed — but what was the point? Zanzibar in the Rain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It used to be a kind of feeble grey. Brian Eno On Art, Music And Inspiration 2013-05-09T16:26:57Z Jesus’ people are collectively known as the Hilltop Colony, a relatively feeble bunch led by a pompous prig in a pretty old house on a hill. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 11: The Hilltop Colony 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It hurt to see his child, his little girl, so feeble, so exposed, and to know that he could do nothing. Motherlode: Becoming a Father 2011-06-17T21:03:14Z It takes a while to really flow, though, even with Wallace amiably playing a feeble, aged Armstrong who slowly changes in his drab dressing room and gulps oxygen from a tank between anecdotes. Louis Armstrong play ‘Satchmo’ blasts into hot racial turf at Atlas in D.C. 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Yes, Mr. Wuorinen could be a sharp-tongued critic, but he never said an unkind word about another classmate’s work, no matter how feeble it might have been, and for that I am eternally grateful. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z All she wants is for her life “to continue in its precious routine. And so it has. However. Order tends toward disorder. Chaos stalks our feeble efforts. One has ever to be on guard.” A New Novel by Louise Erdrich Haunted by Covid and George Floyd’s Death 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The work, and others like it, caused Turner to be mocked as feeble. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z His thriller and his books for children are equally feeble, and even the historical novel The Enlightened is closer to the Cookson-axis than the Tolstoy-axis of the genre. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 2010-06-26T23:06:00Z One can be an unbeliever and find this a bit feeble. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z The novel was tedious, the plot feeble, the characters unconvincing, their fate uninteresting, the point lost; the essay was flimsy, lacking in substance, poorly argued, poorly written. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z France is grappling with feeble growth and 10 percent unemployment, a gaping trade deficit and high state spending that is straining public finances and was a factor in Standard & Poor's removing its triple-A credit rating. Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy in France 2012-05-06T18:33:00Z He regarded the response of left-wing intellectuals to Mr. Rushdie’s predicament as feeble, and he soon began to question many of his cherished political assumptions. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z And neither is Beauregard’s feeble insistence that the universe possesses quantum consciousness, that psychic powers represent quantum phenomena, or that there is an infinitely loving Cosmic Intelligence. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z As I wandered around, doing my feeble best to be sociable, I noticed one gentleman standing alone, looking a bit overwhelmed but also vaguely familiar. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z How terrible, observed a young man paying off a €250,000 mortgage on a jerry-built Dublin flat in which he can't live because it's a fire hazard, that Ireland's building regulations are feebler than Namibia's. TV review: Coming Here Soon; Imagine: Paul Simon's Graceland 2012-07-03T23:04:01Z Yet that spawned multiple, at times disjointed, efforts, turning the Haitian government into a feeble partner in the reconstruction effort. A journalist at the epicenter of Haiti’s ordeal 2013-01-10T00:50:11Z Even liberal nonprofit organizations like MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club “are feeble appendages to a corporatized Democratic Party.” A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The only thing that saved our feeble, developing brains was the Sesame Workshop. A Guide to Determining the Quality of Your Kid’s Screen Time 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Their weapons of choice were feeble jokes, verbal and visual puns, satiric publications and instructions for absurd performances. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z Anyone in the realm would know there’s only one way that goes, even if the king is too feeble to handle the dispatching himself. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Even though the "Chicago" star's intentionally rigid performance of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is good for a laugh, the whole story thread seems like a feeble attempt at injecting tension. Review: `Rock of Ages' revels in big-haired kitsch 2012-06-12T23:30:13Z Universal's "The Mummy" looked its age, selling a relatively feeble $32.2 million in tickets in its debut weekend. 'Wonder Woman' Crushes Box Office Again 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The curse in question is on Sophie, a shy young hatmaker turned into a feeble, elderly woman. Now That Studio Ghibli Is Streaming on HBO Max, Where Do You Start? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z There’s something vaguely feeble about this cautious approach to what is ostensibly an unapologetic gore fest. ‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Finally, a textbook that teaches women the manly pursuit of science in terms that our feeble, submissive lady brains will understand. “Parks and Rec” writer Megan Amram: Rape apologists are like internet trolls 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z With wonderful music by Alex Glasgow, the show was a cult hit in Newcastle but a feeble flop in London. Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-25T13:29:00Z This would be a feeble thing in the grand palace gardens of France, but in my lowly vegetable garden, it appears automatically from the warming earth and grows quickly. The sudden heat and humidity of summer has gardeners dancing a seasonal salsa 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The parade is earnest but insufficient, a community’s feeble attempt to cope with forces beyond its grasp. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Trying to Explain What Cannot Be Explained 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z My one feeble reservation is that even such fabulous virtuosity, viewed over 40 minutes, becomes ordinary. Step-by-step guide to dance: Grupo Corpo 2010-08-20T13:43:00Z Rather, it was driven by the ancient ‘Spirit of Amalek,’ which has always targeted Jewish women and children, and the old and weak and feeble of Israel.” Bibi Netanyahu's Bible lessons: How he pushes Gaza war to Jewish and Christian far right 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Celtic restored their eight-point lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership as they thumped six goals past a feeble Aberdeen. Leaders Celtic hit feeble Aberdeen for six 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Given Google’s position, they say, “a monopolist could enter into any contract — no matter its effects on competition — so long as one rival existed and made some feeble attempt to secure the business.” Column: Google's dominance affects us all. Why is its trial being held in secret? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Starbucks beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly comparable sales on Thursday, as steady demand for its pricey coffees and cold drinks in North America offset a feeble recovery in China. Real estate, tech drive European shares higher on bets of Fed rate-hike cycle end 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z China's feeble post-pandemic recovery has exposed growing structural constraints and raised a sense of urgency around reforms to put growth on a more sustainable footing. Analysis: China to choose fiscal muscle over big reforms to revive economy 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z He went on to describe the government as "weak... feeble... and gutless". GB News: Ofcom rules breached over Richard Tice interview 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z With 13 misses in 16 swings at Javier’s slider, the Twins flailed through the late afternoon shadows in a feeble response to the early explosion by the Astros. Astros hit 4 homers, with a pair by Abreu, to rout Twins 9-1 and take 2-1 ALDS lead 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The senator had been increasingly feeble, confused and using a wheelchair. Legislators for life: Congress was never meant to be a career 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z After a decade of arresting critics, gagging the media and smothering protests, Mr. el-Sisi has more than a few ways to make up for feeble support. As Egypt’s Presidential Vote Nears, Dissent Flickers Around el-Sisi 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “It is going to be difficult for my Republican friends to keep calling President Biden feeble, while he continues to take Speaker McCarthy’s lunch money, and every negotiation,” Mr. Gaetz said. Congress buckles up for McCarthy-Gaetz showdown, lawmakers exchange jabs about deals with Dems 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z He said, “It is going to be difficult for my Republican friends to keep calling President Biden feeble, while he continues to take Speaker McCarthy’s lunch money, and every negotiation.” Gaetz says he’s in contact with Trump amid effort to oust McCarthy from speakership 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal.” Biden tells striking UAW workers on picket line, ‘you deserve a hell of a lot’ 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z That's a big part of the reason why Biden's accomplishments have been ignored: He sabotages his own work with obsequious rants that make him seem feeble or out of touch. Is Joe Biden in big trouble? It looks that way — and he's got nobody else to blame 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z North Korea has a feeble auto industry with a handful of home-grown brands that build sedans and passenger buses. North Korea's Kim Jong Un checks out Putin's ride at Russia summit 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Greenpeace called the changes “feeble tweaks” and “just more hot air from the government.” UK government lifts de facto ban on onshore wind farms 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z "I think that needs to be something that happens at a national level… At the moment, with our feeble prime minister, there's absolutely no sign of that happening, sadly." David Harewood: Actor says the government should apologise for slavery 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Due to the need for developing and producing defense equipment at home, the ministry seeks to strengthen Japan’s feeble defense industry and is adding 540 new staff for equipment development. Japan’s defense ministry requests nearly 12% budget increase to bolster military’s strike capability 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Kim has said such irresponsibility and lack of discipline from officials were "mainly attributable to the feeble work attitude and wrong viewpoint of the premier of the cabinet," raising speculation over a personnel reshuffle. North Korea to convene rubber-stamp parliament in Sept 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z People had had enough of feeble leadership, corruption, economic hardship and chronic insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency. Salif Keïta: 'Golden Voice of Africa' supports Mali's coup leaders 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Higher U.S. interest rates crimp demand, including for products from China, where the economy is stuttering amid feeble domestic consumption, real estate woes, high debts and industrial overcapacity. U.S., China set for talks as they bring trade closer to shores 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Such irresponsibility and lack of discipline from officials is "mainly attributable to the feeble work attitude and wrong viewpoint of the premier of the cabinet," Kim said. North Korea's Kim blasts 'irresponsible' top officials for flood damage 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z But his makeshift levee was feeble, the little rivers were growing and the storm was expected to get much worse. A tropical storm came to the desert, and migrant farmers faced a new danger 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Behind the glass screen of the dock she cut a feeble figure, flanked by prison officers and clutching a pink scarf like a comforter. What I learned about Lucy Letby after 10 months in court 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z If the decline begins to accelerate, it will feed back on weaker consumer confidence and weigh on already feeble retail sales growth. Asia stocks fall as weak China data weigh 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z In an embarrassingly feeble effort, they recently voted to require those investing in China’s military-industrial complex to notify the federal government. Biden outflanks Republicans on China 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z As a feeble Brown, in the final months of his life, slowly approached the Hall of Fame linebacker, Lewis braced himself. Jim Brown remembered as “man among men” during tribute to Browns late Hall of Fame running back 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Crude prices slid as the downgrade of U.S. government credit weighed on sentiment, while copper prices eased on a dim demand outlook from top metals consumer China after feeble economic data. TSX futures shed as commodity prices slip on risk off mood 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The gorgeous spiral galaxy M81 has been reliably seen by very keen-eyed observers, and it shines at a feeble magnitude of 6.8, less than half as bright as the faintest star most folks can spot. What’s the Faintest Star You Can See in the Sky? 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Hunter Renfroe followed with a feeble strikeout that prompted a slapped bat and washed away a drop-in-the-bucket opportunity to break a scoreless game. Angels crumble in critical moments vs. Pirates as winning streak ends 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Soon after that he scrapped parliament, which has since been replaced by a feebler version, largely stripped of powers to oppose the president. Tunisia's El General: The rapper who helped bring down Ben Ali 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z New orders from overseas customers decreased in June at the fastest rate in four months reflecting feeble demand from China, the Japan PMI survey showed. Asia's factory output slumps as weak China demand weighs 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z New orders from overseas customers decreased at the fastest rate in four months, notably reflecting feeble demand from China, Japan's biggest trade partner. Japan factory activity slips back into contraction in June on soft orders 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z But they weakened their endorsement after several members had questions about how well it works in the feeblest of patients, whether boosters will be needed and be effective, and the cost. Older Americans can get RSV vaccine this fall after speaking with their doctor, CDC says 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The feeble oversight allows unlabeled synthetic content to do “irreversible damage” before it is addressed, he said. A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Although shrimp and jellies abound, Casey is most struck by what she doesn't find, chiefly those elements that we feeble surface dwellers consider intrinsic to life. Today’s Deep-Sea Explorers Are Mineral Miners and Ultrawealthy Hobbyists 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Our feeble attempts to deny the existence of God actually prove the opposite. Ask Dr. E: How to argue the knowability of something that, by definition, can’t be known 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z And that proved to be an insurmountable lead against a Seattle offense that was again relentlessly feeble in the final eight innings. Mariners do OK vs. Shohei Ohtani the pitcher, but struggle with him at the plate 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z That’s not what lawmakers intended, Republican state Sen. Max Wise said Wednesday, calling it an “absurd” interpretation and a “feeble attempt to undermine” the measure. Dispute erupts over a section of Kentucky’s transgender law that hinges on one word 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Kriv ultimately wasn't disciplined for his behavior that night, once again benefiting from the Police Department's feeble accountability system, which has long been marked by delays, red tape and lax punishment. This cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The feeble rollout wouldn’t much matter if the Florida governor were otherwise dominating the Republican primary race or even holding steady. The Chris Christie scenario | Michelle Cottle 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Then he walked out, despite the guard’s feeble pleas that he have some self-respect. Column: A Black guard shot a Black man for shoplifting. Blame San Francisco's legacy of racism 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z I am still in a weak and feeble condition, which induces me to halt here two or three days in hopes of recovering a little strength, to enable me to proceed homewards; . World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z “Voting can seem like a feeble and insufficient exercise. It’s dispiriting,” he said. Black voting rights under threat in GOP supermajority states, lawmakers say 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In subtle and direct ways, Republicans have tried to capitalize on the issue by presenting Biden as feeble and highlighting his verbal or physical missteps. Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z To Miller, “Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.” 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z A 2017 walkout by hundreds of reality writers in New York was dismissed by Leftfield Pictures, a prolific producer of unscripted content, as “a feeble attempt to leverage publicity.” In past strikes, networks turned to reality TV. Now it's more complicated. 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z But don’t confuse their feeble nature with a lack of stature; they’re the most common kind of star in the galaxy, outnumbering all other stars by more than two to one. Most Planets in the Galaxy Orbit Stars You Can’t Even See 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Trump tried to counter this feeble display later, giving a Mar-a-Lago speech backgrounded by glitter and flags. The MAGA movement is having its worst week 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z As for the other planets orbiting the small, feeble Trappist star, “I would have been more optimistic about the others” having atmospheres if this one had, Greene said in an email. No atmosphere found at faraway Earth-sized world, study says 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z By season’s end, she began volleyball games benched, too feeble to start. Surge in eating disorders spurs state legislative action 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z America’s moms and dads are a pretty feeble bunch, to hear House Republicans talk. Opinion | The GOP treats parents like victims. They should meet these PTA moms. 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The prior generation’s oddball styling, quirky interior and feeble powertrain are now in the rearview mirror. Edmunds Compares: 2023 Toyota Prius vs. 2023 Kia Niro 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Young people cite high childcare and education costs, low incomes, a feeble social safety net and gender inequalities, as discouraging factors. Time and money for love: China brainstorms ways to boost birth rate 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Given the feeble nature of England's defeat to France, there is little to suggest this championship will end in anything other than huge celebrations in Dublin. Ireland one win from Grand Slam after beating Scots 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z But the script is barely functional, and several key developments are remarkably feeble. Review | ‘Champions’: This comedy’s supporting cast outshines its stars 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But regardless of the feeble gestures of revolt the network is throwing up now, we all know how this story ends. Trump is already winning the "war" with Fox News 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The feeble nominal growth in wages in January was well short of the 5.1% consumer inflation rate used to calculate pay in real terms. Japan's real wages drop at fastest pace since 2014 as hot inflation takes toll 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The objective, then, isn’t to sacrifice more of the future to make a feeble attempt at reaching the playoffs again if there’s no realistic chance of succeeding once there. Perspective | For Ovechkin in winter, a deadline sell-off makes sense this spring 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Carter came off looking feeble in the public eye after a military rescue mission he ordered in 1980 ended in failure with eight U.S. troops dying in an aircraft mishap. Factbox: Jimmy Carter's biggest challenges while president 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Evolution's ability to solve problems is, according to Charles Darwin himself, “immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts.” Here’s What Scientists Are Learning about Women’s Health from Other Female Animals 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The excuse of efficiency is a feeble rationale. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z "Art has always been in the frame and it's always been a feeble excuse to visit some of the world's great art galleries," he said. Horace Panter art exhibition inspired by The Specials' USA tour 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Japan also wants to strengthen its feeble arms industry. Japan shows tough new security moves during Philippines trip 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Dawood said this was "another feeble attempt to malign and ridicule" and was "simply not true". ECB racism process 'failed everybody' - Hoggard 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Conservatives have tried to grab at anything in a feeble attempt to get people arguing about the pandemic again. The end of COVID emergencies means meltdown for anti-vaxxers 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Many called the gesture — at this moment of violence and radicalism — feeble, even farcical. Blinken visit deepens Israeli and Palestinian skepticism about U.S. role 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Japan also hopes to further ease restrictions on arms export to strengthen the country’s feeble defense industry. NATO chief wants firmer ties with Japan to defend democracy 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Restrictions on the features and capabilities of the guns themselves, the ages of their users and, notably, feeble efforts to identify those having a potential to inflict harm, have all been unsuccessful. Opinion | Guns are the result; the Second Amendment is the problem 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Wade decision and were tired of the feeble response to attacks by the GOP. Biden arrives in California to survey storm damage 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The feeble pass, which Tom Brady intended to throw out of bounds, landed softly in the hands of Dallas Cowboys safety Jayron Kearse. Perspective | Tom Brady is messing with the clock, and it’s about to get awkward 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z And while states such as Britain have deep commercial and diplomatic links in the region, the military component of London’s “Tilt to Indo-Pacific” is feeble compared to that of the U.S. China threat sparks a web of new relationships for U.S. military in region 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The world's second-largest economy was sluggish for most of last year due to China's tough anti-virus measures, a prolonged slump in its property sector and feeble global growth. China Dec industrial output up 1.3%, retail sales down 1.8% 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z And we accept that this means we must frantically try to keep adult content out of kids’ feeds, armed only with feeble tools offered by social media companies and other services. Opinion | No, millennials, it’s not inevitable your kids will see porn online 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In this context, the supposed weakness of Ukraine’s prewar polity — its corrupt politicians and feeble central state — are recast as strengths. Review | A new book on the war in Ukraine tries to tell a story in progress 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “What is this, if not a gesture of feeble outrage by Washington?” the embassy said in a statement. Russia ridicules the latest round of U.S.-backed sanctions as ‘insane’ and ‘feeble’ 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The knowledge of shared interests and concerns grows feeble, and communities grow less connected. News deserts spread across Washington 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The survey results back separate data released on Wednesday showing shrinking factory production and feeble business conditions in October. Japan's factory activity shrinks for first time nearly 2 years -PMI 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He was atop the gate again during last year’s 70th anniversary celebrations, looking much feebler as he was helped to his feet beside Xi. Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The feeble business activity highlights challenges for the world's third-largest economy, which has been lagging behind peers in recovering from the pandemic. Japan's Oct factory output extends decline with larger-than-expected dip 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z But the “L” Seattle suffered Sunday stemmed primarily from a “D” that was feeble at best and nonexistent at worst. Seahawks’ loss to Raiders indefensible, and that’s the problem 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z She noticed and, with her technical team, confirmed that in at least two ads, recordings of McCain had been slowed down to make him sound mentally feeble. Biden at 80: A ‘respecter of fate’ mulls 2nd White House bid 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The legal arguments in Trump's Nov. 11 lawsuit to avoid testifying are feeble. Trump's lawsuit against Jan. 6 committee is a sideshow — they've already nailed him 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z China stocks have had a turbulent few weeks - sliding on outbreaks of COVID-19, the ensuing lockdowns as well as feeble economic data, but also surging sporadically on hopes of an eventual economic reopening. Asia stocks surge as cooling inflation feeds hopes Fed will ease up 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z It said a feeble operating performance in the third quarter showed Credit Suisse's banking franchise had weakened, and the positioning of investment bank CS First Boston was unclear, noting uncertainty regarding future funding and ownership. S&P cuts Credit Suisse Group rating to one step above junk status 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z A weirdly feeble joint response from Vanity Fair and ProPublica sent me by Rachel Janc, a Vanity Fair publicist, says the Chinese postings “are often opaque and open to varying interpretations.” Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z I felt feeble, contemplating retirement when a guy 30 years my senior was still going strong. Time to retire? Absolutely, said some. Never, said others. After a year of research, I had my answer 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z That growth rate slowed the following quarter to 2.3 percent, which was still nearly double the feeble productivity rate increases the nation experienced in the decade after the 2007-2008 financial crisis. U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Words are a feeble description of what occurs in this picture. Netflix remade 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' Here's how to watch the 1930 original 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mars has a feeble atmosphere, and when a meteoroid comes flying in from space, it’s unlikely to burn up before smacking into the surface. Big rocks slam into Mars, gouge craters, reveal subsurface features 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Even in its feeble state, household consumption of goods and services accounted for more than half of gross domestic product growth in the third quarter, underlining its outsized weighting in the economy. China's Q4 GDP hits early speed bump as COVID stifles economy 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The naturalist, who often loathed sea voyages, at one point wrote about himself as “not unlike a newly hatched bird, tottering on feeble legs.” Audubon’s writings on ocean voyages and seabirds complicate his legacy 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Despite his feeble health, Trippi managed to blow them all out. Pro Football Hall of Famer Charley Trippi dies at 100 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z And they provide political ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for re-election in two years. Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns that Often Unravel 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z But when you have multiple smoke detectors and you hear a feeble beep that issues forth approximately every 137 seconds and you don’t know which one it is, you’re likely to be driven mad. Perspective | A computer glitch told D.C. residents about years-old pothole repairs 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z But new luxury homes are still popular with buyers, who see them as "hard currency" in a feeble property market, the newspaper cited industry insiders as saying. Chinese buyers snap up luxury homes as 'hard currency' in soft property market 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Most lawyers who are following this case closely believe that it is going to be very difficult for the appeals court to uphold her feeble reasoning. Trump's MAGA judge can't save him: Legal woes continue to pile up 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which supports Oz, stuck with the line of attack Wednesday, calling Fetterman “a whiny coward” who is “too weak and feeble” to debate. Fetterman campaign says stroke recovery factors into fall debate plans 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z A feeble coup attempt against Gorbachev by the KGB in August 1991 quickly failed, but it weakened his hold on power, and by the end of the year Boris Yeltsin had elbowed him brutally aside. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The feeble light of the planet is simply swamped by the “big light” in the neighborhood. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z In the background other passengers are seen awkwardly ignoring her, although a single hand is placed on her in a feeble attempt to offer comfort. Someone is having a mental breakdown in public. What is the compassionate way to respond? 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Taking a feeble slap at the ball, Norton mimics the way Newman had attempted to force a turnover. If it seems like old times at UCLA, then Ken Norton Jr. will have succeeded in return 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Despite this impressive record, though, Biden’s poll numbers are feeble, and his support among many Democratic voters is tepid. President Biden’s high-wire act 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Instead, they offered to have him appear via videoconference, and argued that he was too feeble to travel by air after having a pair of cardiac stents inserted in early July. Giuliani Scheduled to Face Atlanta Grand Jury Investigating Trump 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Beyond the quasars and the most distant visible galaxies, we have detected the feeble glow of the explosion itself, filling the universe and thus coming to us from all directions in space. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The caretaker Cabinet — unable to pass laws or issue a budget — grows more feeble by the day, while the public lashes out in protest against poor services, including power cuts during the scorching summer heat. Despite public anger, no progress in Iraq political deadlock 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z The Cubs claimed OF Franmil Reyes off waivers from the Guardians with the hope he can regain his power stroke and help a feeble offense. Thompson, Velazquez, Morel power Cubs past Nationals 6-3 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In the darkness, he wandered among the men, shining a feeble flashlight on each. AP PHOTOS: Afghan despair, poverty fuel addiction scourge 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z |
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