| 单词 | flimsily |
| 例句 | As often as she could she caught her son’s eye, nodded at him and simulated a smile which, though flimsily constructed, affirmed her loyalty. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The motel is the kind we’re used to: a row of cottages, flimsily built, strung together with Christmas tree lights, yellow or blue or green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But Jabrielle, in keeping with most of the movie’s satellite characters, is written so flimsily that she operates mainly as a mirror for David’s unacknowledged issues. Review: In ‘Guidance,’ a High School Counselor as a Rotten Role Model 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Miller taunted any retrograde fanboys in the audience with a shot of flimsily dressed women hosing themselves down in the desert. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The unspoken laws of media clusters flimsily dictate that three makes a trend, but the premieres of two thematically disparate but culturally related shows that debuted within weeks of each other make a person wonder. "The Ashley Madison Affair" is another doc where the audience is an accessory to the true crime 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z It is flimsily shored up with his very personal journal-like narration of the adventure. '180 Degrees South': Trekking ? and surfing and climbing ? to Patagonia 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z But in Dostoevsky's masterpiece, the firewall between the passions of the characters and whatever the author himself might think is as absolute as it is in this novel flimsily permeable. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z You can’t blame millions of us for riding to a raft like that for 124 minutes, even if it’s flimsily constructed one and barely floats. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The main performance event of this year’s Tap City: The New York City Tap Festival, “Tap Treasures” was a tribute show, nine or 10 numbers flimsily organized around New York sites important to tap history. Review: An Anemic Tribute to Tap Dance History 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z I kept expecting those walls to fall away, revealing something wondrous, but they remain flimsily upright. Review: A ‘Peter Pan’ That Never Takes Flight 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Patti Smith is a person for whom the material world veils—flimsily—a set of more lasting, luminous truths. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s apologies were only the latest expressions of regret, especially concerning workout facilities that were flimsily stocked for the women’s tournament in Texas and well-supplied for the men’s event in Indiana. Women’s Basketball Coaches Challenge N.C.A.A. Leaders Over Gender Inequity 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Abdelghaly also worried that the upcoming rainy season, which often sees violent, windy storms in this part of Sudan, would result in the destruction of much of the flimsily built camp. In Sudan’s sweltering camps, refugees from Tigray dream of independence from Ethiopia 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z However, "The Beat" managing editor Tiffany Cross expressed concern when she heard that "the descendants of colonizers" are flimsily considering "taking land from indigenous people." MSNBC guest mocks Trump voters: 'Can anybody at the MAGA rally point out Greenland on a map?' 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z In one large homeless encampment in Oakland, hidden under the interstate, makeshift tents cluster together beneath flimsily tied tarps. Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The flimsily constructed “civil war” narrative is built out of discrete episodes that have in common only the calendar. Opinion | There’s no Republican civil war 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The gang of about seven attackers, armed with semi-automatic rifles and improvised grenades, stormed past the flimsily guarded gates and fought off an initial attempt by security forces to storm the restaurant. The new terrorism in Bangladesh 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z However, the Review said: "That assertion was so flimsily corroborated as to resemble fiction but, regrettably, the biographers displayed insufficient literary brio to merit serious consideration." Morrissey frontrunner to win Bad Sex in Fiction Award - BBC News 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Scramble a few hundred yards up the hillside and the dwellings are just as densely packed, but even more flimsily built. In Peru water is a high price for Lima's poor - BBC News 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The latter is particularly ridiculous, flimsily based on the fact that a Tennessee attorney general, whom the state supreme court selects, declined to join in a lawsuit against the health-care law. Get politics out of judicial selections These are not flimsily constructed caricatures of users based on surveys and spreadsheets. User Persona Gives A Human Face To Big Data 2014-04-16T21:49:00Z It becomes a series of random events, strung together flimsily, signifying nothing. Wall Street needs an MFA 2013-09-12T15:51:00Z A mother and her two children, carrying suitcases, walked away from the square, toward entrances once flimsily barricaded and now fortified with walls. 6 Die in Egypt as Morsi Supporters Continue Protests 2013-07-23T13:23:17Z But these explanations are presented flimsily, summarily, and we are soon back inside the world of Apple, with the blinds drawn. The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counter Culture, and How the Crazy Ones Took Over the World by Luke Dormehl – review 2012-08-10T10:00:01Z He drew up an armchair to the fire, and the girl sank into it luxuriously, extending her flimsily shod feet to the blaze. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Its American cousin makes a poor apology for a nest, it is true, merely a loose bundle or platform of sticks, as flimsily put together as a dove's nest. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Houses do not last long in Turkey; they are but flimsily built and fires are very frequent. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z In the current locker-room climate, there is too often a blurred distinction between the flimsily dressed cheerleaders, hostesses and female journalists. Sports of The Times: Sis, Boom, Bah (Humbug): Cheer Squads Have No Place in the N.F.L. 2010-10-16T22:09:00Z Everywhere they stretch away, the dim arcades, flimsily roofed with glass and matting and bark, fading into vague Oriental vistas of flitting figures and magic outlines. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise But those positions had been but flimsily held, but indifferently fortified, when compared with the main defensive positions arranged by our allies. With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front The church, storehouse, and living quarters were flimsily built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 There was no keel to any one of these boats, and the ribs were flimsily put together. Young Alaskans in the Far North She saw her flimsily constructed love world shattered by the girl before her. Rose O'Paradise And as for "society," it rustled flimsily, like tissue-paper; bright, in a way, but still thin and crackling. On the Stairs The Zerlina, though a beautiful model, as are most of her class, was flimsily built, and far from a good sea-boat, speed only having been cared for in her construction. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman There was a smile at this, for the valiant junior was small for his age, and flimsily built. A Dog with a Bad Name But I certainly looked very flimsily at all. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II There was something so sordidly repellent in the flimsily furnished rooms of the hotel where they went first, that she shed a few tears of pure homesickness. One Woman's Life She is not a criminal or malignant creature, but her light malice is capable of playing flimsily with any atrocity. Robin In the meantime she pushed on towards the houses, that because of her sickness and her fear rocked and wavered towards her flimsily like a breaking wave. The Judge Faster and faster buildings were rising; the higher and more flimsily built, the better it seemed, for it is easier to demolish walls that have been lightly erected. One Man in His Time I use the shelves for my old china and porcelains, and the drawers for pamphlets and the thousand and one things that are too flimsily bound for bookshelves. The House in Good Taste There was her own case; had she for an instant suspected how flimsily based was her own idea of herself and of her place in the world?—the "world" meaning, of course, "the set." The Second Generation Many of the smaller industries and business establishments were also housed in wooden buildings or flimsily built masonry buildings. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I had no idea your sentiments were so flimsily formed as to be perturbed by a few remnants of mortality; but stay out, if you are so afraid, by all means.' A Pair of Blue Eyes Neither the antiquated junks nor the flimsily constructed forts of the enemy were any match for our men-of-war. Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 These new houses are flimsily built; they might hear you upstairs. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time The product of a mushroom town, which merely existed by grace of the temporary railway terminus, it had been hastily and flimsily constructed, so it could be transported elsewhere at a moment's notice. Keith of the Border Although flimsily built, the structure was abundantly strong to support the combined weight of the eight female blians who at times performed therein. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 The Raimbeau house, originally intended for a factory, was very flimsily built. The Flood Amabel had seen him first and in the Darrel household there was a sort of unwritten, not always observed code flimsily founded on "First come first served." The Head of the House of Coombe So flimsily was the place constructed that he made even the walls to tremble. The Beetle I clasped her flimsily garmented form, kissed her again and again, let her kiss and bite me; and still it all seemed legitimate, or nearly so. The Rise of David Levinsky Emperor had brought his wonderful strength to bear on his flimsily constructed prison with disastrous results to the latter. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life It was a flimsily beautiful and costly thing; whose ivory handle was deftly carven and set with several uncut stones; and whose deep fringe of lace was true Venetian Point. Further Adventures of Lad |
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