| 单词 | footle |
| 例句 | Race and gender are weighty issues, but there is another, more footling, prejudice that Strong Island will have to overcome if it is to take the Oscar on Sunday. 'I was terrified I was going to be a flash in the pan': three people who made Hollywood history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A play which attacks footling excess has by then capsized under the weight of its own adornments. La B?te; One-on-One festival; You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z This is in the grand scheme of things a footling detail, and there are many thousands more lines, and two more realms, to get through. The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Clive James – review 2013-07-22T07:00:04Z The problem is, almost certainly, with the script itself – its footling dialogue about what to wear and rationing, its flurries of melodrama. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z About two hours later, it was recognised Arthur was "an unanticipated footling breech", the Record of Inquest states. Burgess Hill family campaigns to prevent breech home birth deaths 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z That left Jonathan with lifelong feelings of guilt, which led him on several occasions to announce that he was abandoning what he once called “this footling flibbertigibbet world of theater.” Jonathan Miller, Acclaimed Theater Director and Writer, Dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Using violence to enforce footling laws is also a common theme. Don’t shoot 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Seems as if everything were too small and footling to matter. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Now, really, Settee, do try not to footle like this! Voces Populi 2011-10-04T02:00:20.280Z But he must do this, his very first job, absolutely correctly, and without any bungling and footling. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z I despair of such footling, meddling, high-minded interference by people who hold sway over our lives. Barbecue ban in parks is revoked 2011-05-29T10:23:51Z I think it's the most footle business I ever heard of! In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Still, he was expected to risk body and bone in a footling contest. The Ashes 2010 countdown: 2 days to go 2010-11-23T09:52:00Z Still, the overriding feeling – and hope – is that this is a non-issue, a footling amuse-bouche born of pre-tournament tension and an unblinking media focus, restlessly mob-handed and already ravenous for titbits and clues and prompts. World Cup 2010: How to keep Wayne Rooney calm ? pass the ball better 2010-06-08T13:19:00Z Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America’s high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling. 2010-01-28T06:50:00Z Sometimes he made what George Edmund regarded as quite footling comments. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman All this footling squabble between workmen and employers about a farthing an hour more or a farthing an hour less ... isn't decent ... it isn't gentlemanly. Changing Winds A Novel And really, your objections, if you won't mind my saying so, are absolutely footling. In Brief Authority You took me against my will to that footling hospital ball last night, and I only got three hours’ sleep instead of six, and you’re angry with me because I yawned after you kissed me. When Winter Comes to Main Street Say, Barry, I want to be placed, if possible, where I can do good work without getting popped off by some footling little arrow before the big game arrives. Gold Out of Celebes He talked about Lapland, and some footling researches he had made into the magic of the north. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The men plainly admired Diana's nerve, while wondering with their eyebrows what on earth she could see in those three footling fellows. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa It all arose from a most "footling" source. The Loom of Youth "I suppose you'll just footle, then," his friend had summed it up, and left him, because it was half-past six, and they had dinner at that strange hour. The Lee Shore They would be higher than the angels were it not for the fact that, in art, they are exquisitely and perfectly footling. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 "I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters." Captivity The one really footling, futile, fool thing to do, was what he was doing now—lamenting his old way of life and making no effort to recapture it! The Real Adventure He's a boy still; he can see our side of the question, and he knows what footling idiots half of the common room are. The Loom of Youth Of course, he would just footle; he always had. The Lee Shore Any other generation at your age would be footling around, living a shallow existence in the valleys, or just beginning to climb a slope to higher things. Tell England A Study in a Generation Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it? Acton's Feud A Public School Story And you refuse your footling little insignificant self. Jaffery Their music is soon drowned in catcalls: What the dickens do we Romans want with such footling tootlings? The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Albeit to young Mr Benny pure literature made no appeal, and had even been summarised by him as "footle," in the business of advertising he developed a curious literary twist. Hocken and Hunken SETTEE, do try not to footle like this! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 3, 1891 Think of the people to whom your bottles of footle go! Tono Bungay For the little footling services I rendered her on the journey, she's idiotically grateful—out of all proportion. Jaffery "If you're as keen about all this, are you game to give up this footling old shop, and devote your time to carrying out my plans, when I've licked 'em into shape?" The Market-Place It would hurt horribly to do so, but would a man sacrifice everything on account of some footling argument about a street? The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Looking at me through the footle, distorted little microscope of their own silly scrubby little souls! Ptomaine Street Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling. Right Ho, Jeeves We have run down a lot of footling spies, too stupid to give us a minute's anxiety, but this man who cut the Antinous's wires is of a different calibre altogether. The Lost Naval Papers I ought to tell you that since we left England he has taken up painting footling little pictures, and has got the artistic temperament badly. Uneasy Money The Hindus called it Anjan, and formed it by applying lamp-black, made of a certain root, and mixed with oil to the palm of a footling child, male or female. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 He said that all them footling little beasts were a-listening to 'em, and they told him all about it. The Fortunate Youth Are you sure that would be worse than living with a man she did love, if he was a footling person? Heartbreak House It was her footling old uncle's work; he ought never to have taken those two round the world together and shut himself up in his cabin for the greater part of the time. The Good Soldier It sounded footling even to myself, but I had been reading a novel of the realistic school that had been greatly praised for its actuality. They and I She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it. All Roads Lead to Calvary |
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