| 单词 | meager |
| 例句 | His meager hair was plastered to his forehead and the back of his neck, with small pieces flopping this way and that as he floundered in the shallows. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z One day word came that there was a vacant shack on Thirteenth Avenue, and finally, after months of anxiety, we packed our meager belongings and left for our new home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That meager allowance was the most she’d ever had to call her own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’d be sent to an adult prison, where the choice of programs was meager. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I thought of the meager Inti Raymi meal the people back home would be scrambling to put together. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z My feet felt like clumps of ice at my ankles; two pairs of woolen socks provided a meager shield against this Montana cold. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Meals were meager and repetitive: salt pork, stale biscuits, and whatever fish could be caught by the crew. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Other campfires were dousing out, and there was an increasing scurry of activity as the beach residents started tying down meager belongings in preparation for changing weather. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dae Hyun was thirteen and still living in South Korea, his father began grooming him to take over the family’s meager crab fishing business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence countered that Chicago’s experience with large-scale nuclear research was meager compared with that of the Rad Lab, which had support facilities to spare. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the far side, Taran distinguished meager clumps of wasted trees. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z After school he had worked in a factory, but the wages were too meager for him to live on his own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As his food supply grew meager, McCunn deeply regretted tossing all but a dozen of his shotgun shells into the lake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth crept ahead, staying low, using the bushes for cover, gradually making his way toward the meager line of smoke. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I watched as he put my backpack and one meager garbage sack in the trunk. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “They broke the tie,” Otto said, his gaze flicking to their meager pair of keys; they somehow seemed duller in this morning’s light. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Actually, it’s far, far worse than that because AT maps—for reasons that bewilder me beyond speculation—provide less detail than even their meager scale allows. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mary Lou picked up a dried frond and added it to the meager pile in her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meager body, with the varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Out of these meager salaries, they had to buy their own uniforms. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I take it you already possess great caches of treasure. It surprises me that such a meager financial offering as I could supply would entice you to trade.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After a heated whispered discussion the driver finally pocketed the money and opened the trunk so that Habib could pull out their meager belongings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As she passed the meager trail branching from the road, Kendra skidded to a halt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was wearing a long coat, rather than just the meager shirt and pants he had worn when he’d attacked them yesterday. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And yet I am bestowed only with the meager effect of his hard-fought riches, that troubling awe and contempt and piety I still hold for his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We did have a meager emergency reserve, a secret stash of ten gold coins my grandmother had given my mother before we left Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As Pauli Murray points out in her book of family history, Proud Shoes: “Even slavery had its bitter rivalries for meager advantage...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Biff stored this meager information neatly in his mind to be thought over later when he was alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A dim light glowed and his body was thankful for the meager warmth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Even by the end of the second summer after spraying, only meager quantities of aquatic insects had reestablished themselves, and on one stream — formerly rich in bottom fauna — scarcely any could be found. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For each NPC my avatar defeated, I would earn a few meager experience points and, usually, a handful of copper or silver coins dropped by my slain foes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And his crimes had been meager things, the actions of a naive boy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Typically, we received even less than the meager amounts stipulated in the regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazelle strokes his hair and whispers something while my mother and Prim go through their meager store of painkillers, the kind usually accessible only to doctors. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He poured his meager salary into presents for me and art supplies and charities and clothes and wine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The meager products of her kitchen could not begin to satisfy the appetites of two dozen tall, strapping boys and a handful of coaches and coxswains. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He surveyed his meager possessions with wonder over the unexpected course of his life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He was already signed up for tesserae, which entitled them to a meager supply of grain and oil in exchange for his entering his name extra times in the drawing to become a tribute. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They finished the meager store of potatoes and carrots they had saved from the last agricultural area, and now they were always hungry. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Now Martin hoped his meager soldiers’ pay would help him save up to buy freedom for his family. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the meal, my father, turning to me as though peace had brought with it some great change to our meager fortunes, said, “Well, Louise, what will you do now?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband’s bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, nearly a week since we got to Summerland, we collect our meager pay. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Inside, along with the rest of our meager possessions, were the Tales. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But her face looked pale in the meager firelight. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She maneuvered the quiver to a good position, where she could reach her meager handful of arrows easily. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was called sharecropping, and it involved black families raising and harvesting crops for white landowners in exchange for a humble place to live and a meager share of the crops. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Matthias stood respectfully to one side as the King rummaged through his meager possessions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I manage to take cover under a stone outcropping just as the vomiting begins, and I lose my meager supper and whatever water has remained in my stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But the narrow bed had clean sheets, and there was a trunk with a lock where I could keep my meager possessions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bobby’s funds were meager, but the good doctor would often give him a discount price, a policy he shared with absolutely no one else. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They knew, however, that today’s event had the potential to make their success so far seem meager. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That was especially true of the Rad Lab’s work with heavier elements, which required bombardments at energies well beyond the relatively meager powers of the Cavendish’s Cockcroft-Walton apparatus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And the Maya indeed had stretched the meager productive capacity of their homeland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Over the meager meal, we took turns repeating the lessons Mom had taught us over the years at this very table. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of my teammates fared even worse than I in the meager air and unhygenic environment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was as I sat on my rush mat, eating the meager evening meal with my family, that I gathered the courage to place my questions into the air for others to hear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Farmer knew that meager incomes didn’t guarantee disease and early death, but the two usually went together. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the last of her meager salary she had bought her daughter small presents wrapped in brown paper with colored paper hearts pasted on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The meager light from the arena spilled around them, barely lighting the room enough to make out shapes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z My eyes had adjusted to the meager light and I could see details now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The embroidery on the hem of the doorman’s rubakha flashed in the meager light of the hallway. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Living alone on such a meager income, he would never have been able to live in such a nice neighborhood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The feast was a meager enough thing, a succession of fish stews, black bread, and spiceless goat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This meager display of dictatorial gratitude is telling. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The work was brutal, and the food too meager to sustain me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He put in their mother’s old skin trunk, which had carried her meager trousseau to this mountain and most of the food she’d managed to preserve before she gave up trying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I was already awake at 4:00 a.m. when the alarm on my wrist- watch began to beep; I’d been awake most of the night, struggling for breath in the meager air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Scheer had assembled a nice hors d’oeuvre platter from meager sources. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But when a law school classmate, Charles Bliss, moved to Atlanta for a job with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, we realized that if we pooled our meager salaries, we could afford a low-rent apartment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Eventually it's using more power to keep warm than it's getting from the meager daylight that makes it through the dust. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A meager colonization program had been underway before the war, but now that the sun had ceased to shine on Earth, the colonization entered an entirely new phase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I whipped around my house, checking on my meager possessions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They all lived in fear of Sister Marjorie Drummond, of the menacing meager smile and softening of manner that preceded her fury. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was the cost of buying slaves and their upkeep on one hand and paying white workers meager but livable wages on the other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Rations are meager, but we know how to survive on less than nothing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But the long hours and meager wages meant the need for additional income. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their meager meals left everyone still hungry and cranky. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Earlys’ meager congregation has collapsed in their pastor’s absence, and the Original Church is the best they can find in Forrestville to replace it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was hard to watch Dove swilling their meager food, but the way to his heart seemed to be through his stomach. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z From this meager beginning had sprung the ineffectual squadron commander who was now spending the better part of each working day in Pianosa forging Washington Irving’s name to official documents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He got out his tobacco sack with its meager jin- gle of silver and bought the men a drink to keep them talking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery—our mere existence is punishment enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But nevertheless, this was the spot—the very spot where he might hang his own few meager leaves to the Lyte tree. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Each tessera is worth a meager year's supply of grain and oil for one person. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At Chicago, the students hoarded their meager supplies of chemical reagents and worked behind closed doors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The officers were marveling over that circumstance as they sifted through his meager possessions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stable buck’s room a small electric globe threw a meager yellow light. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The clothes were a bit sniffy, but then, from my meager experience with Chase, it seemed that eight-year-old boys could be a bit sniffy themselves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was the middle of the week, and no one would have any money for food for a couple more days, when their meager wages were collected. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It did not take long to organize my meager possessions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He spotted Nhamo and trotted up, fur bristling, to demand the meager bunch of blackjack leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He used his meager savings to leave a message for his parents at the main post and left Corabel with Erastis that night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Toby could have his and Cady’s meager possessions packed and be out the door in no time, and then Cady would be safe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was from Granny’s conversations, year after year, that the meager details of Grandpa’s life came to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Listings in the Star Tribune are meager or nonexistent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like Miss Whitlaw to have saved half of her own meager dinner for her guests. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And the meager fare at Mother Palmer’s boardinghouse up on the bluff was proving downright starvation inducing this year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I tore into the food even before I hugged them, but forced myself to stop so that we could all share the meager morsels. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If the take was meager, they’d move on, hoping for greener fields. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And the cousin—doesn’t matter whose cousin—had the letter of invitation for the doctor of Isfahan, which he had promised to deliver in exchange for a meager fee. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the city, food rations have grown more meager. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z After the meager meals I managed on the bus ride, I delight in eating my fill. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no wars over the world's meager resources; soldiers are too cold and hungry to fight. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z For fifteen years, she and the others had survived in hiding, trapped in this citadel of murdered gods and scraping a meager existence from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The following day they pawned some of Granny’s meager belongings. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The PAC feared democratic elections because they knew such a vote would expose their meager popular support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The white families swarmed in a camp off the main street, inconsolable and abject, the meager possessions they were able to save piled around their feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was hungry, and his meager diet had pared his body down to a feral scrawn of gristle and bone, but he seemed to be in reasonably good health. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He eventually found meager income as an auto repairman. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a poor house, a meager house with the look of having been quickly abandoned. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The brass buttons on Sergeant Maples’s coat, the insignia on his collar, and the badges on his chest all caught the meager courtroom light and held it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Radium emitted alpha particles at a meager 7.6 million electron volts and beta rays—that is, electrons—at only 3 million volts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were all day on the long black road, stopping in the afternoon to eat sparingly from their meager supplies. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z With my meager seniority, the choice of steady posts was limited. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z John was surprised at the meager demand in Berkeley for the isotopes being discovered and manufactured by the cyclotron with the efficiency of an assembly line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every night she shrank from the moment when she and Judith must make the dread ascent to the upstairs chamber with only the meager comfort of a warming pan. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I certainly hope so; my meager budget can't stand much more of a diet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I wish,” said my father one night as we were eating our meager supper in the cabin, “I wish you could do a little studying of a night. You know, keep up your schooling.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One, two, three, four...Counting them over and over, as if that would replenish the empty water kegs and meager slabs of salted meat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It ought to have felt exhilarating, but the girl’s eyes had teared up and her face was drooping, and what satisfaction Mariam found from this outburst felt meager, somehow illicit. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Over the family’s meager supper, he and his father talked about the Durham Bulls’ latest victory and C.P. managed to wheedle a promise from his father to take him to the next ball game. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meager handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Seaborg was ten, his parents fled the meager opportunities of Ishpeming, relocating to a small community just south of Los Angeles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was supposed to be a moment to thank God for the nourishment before us, but through my cracked eyelids, the meager offering didn’t look like much to be thankful for. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night when Mama Killa was at her fullest, the entire village celebrated with a lavish communal meal, although no one spoke of how meager the feast would be this year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was an abundant contrast to the meager food rations in Nazi Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When the woman saw Seth, she dropped the rope immediately, wiping pink saliva from the corners of her meager lips. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We eat a mishmash of our remaining food—canned peaches, crackers, and snails—leaving one can of salmon for Tigris as meager thanks for all she’s done. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Their meager clothes, imposed on them by foreigners, clung to their thin chests and legs like a second skin finally ready to accept the shape of their bodies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, in contrast to the proteins, the solid chemical facts known about DNA were meager. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I spread the clothing out on my bed and found my wallet, which had contained my meager savings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Billy wanted to be friendly, to help, if he could, but his resources were meager. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gives thanks for the meager breakfast, for living to eat another morning meal. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Given this meager sports heritage, the Washington crews’ victories gave Seattleites something they hadn’t had in a long time—something, in fact, that they had never really had. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And the single-minded determination that had propelled him through twenty-five years of green- grocering in a famous ghetto of America would serve him a few last days, and through any of my meager execrations. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was an extraordinarily clever and gifted person, whose potential was limited because of her family’s meager resources. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than having the right blood, the son’s qualifications were meager. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He’d yell hi, then clack away for a few minutes, while I took out my notebook and strolled through the place, playing writer and cataloguing the apartment’s meager contents. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw his dad putting up posters with some dorky school picture of himself on the front and a meager reward offered underneath. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It was a poor thing indeed, and the meager throng that had gathered to watch filled but half the seats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was just finishing my meager meal when Uncle Moshe found me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Ma sighed a great deal, an impatient noise usually accompanied with a frown at their rough clothes, rundown house, or meager food. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She poured a meager portion of Lucky Charms into a plastic bowl, and then she rummaged in the refrigerator for a gallon of milk. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In spite of his meager graduate student wages he sets aside money to send every few months to his father to help put an extension on his parents’ house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, Bobby sent 10 percent of his meager chess earnings to the Church. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He went to bed thoroughly exhausted and woke at dawn, stopping just long enough to eat a meager breakfast in the kitchen before riding off to supervise the work in the fields. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the meager fluid bathed his tongue, he stopped, paused, and then swallowed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Through the open door the moonshine fell into the room in a cold radiance to rival our meager lamplight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was just a sliver, and after I breached the initial overgrowth, the trees became high enough to block out its meager light. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The price of a liter of rum keeps most of them, with their monthly coupons and meager earnings, stone-cold sober. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon we started seeing more and more people on the road, traveling with their meager belongings on their heads. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z For the moment he concentrated on a meager breakfast. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z But they had, in fact, come halfway across America on their own wits and meager resources. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked on other men’s boats as strenuously as his slowly healing body would let him, eking out a meager living for himself and his widowed mother. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be on my knees, scrubbing, sweating, pouring out what limited energy my body could wring from my meager diet, and I would hear feet approaching. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't hard to imagine the refugees, huddled together with their meager belongings. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And not because the feast had been so meager that the people could barely smile at one another. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I shout it again, as loud as my meager voice can. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The visit was the brainchild of Mrs. Marie Mattingly Meloney, a New York socialite and magazine entrepreneur who had been shocked to learn that Madame Curies research was hobbled by a meager supply of radium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When they exercise, they don’t break a sweat; at dinner, they eat enforced meager rations. ‘Paradise Hills’ Review: Caged Birds Singing, Maybe Escaping 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z At a time when a tiny percentage of high school graduates got university degrees, in a community of Italian and Jewish immigrants with meager means, most of Ostro’s players went to college. His players, in their 80s, bid fond farewell to their 100-year-old coach 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Then, as we approached a canyon, I saw a meager waterfall. On the rocks, with ice: Utah’s national parks just as spectacular in the offseason 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The band members and their one groupie have this nasty habit of turning into hairless wolf people and ripping apart their rhythm guitarists with as much brutality as the meager budget will allow. Straight to DVD: Beware "Neowolf"! 2010-04-24T13:01:00Z The play takes us into the stark world of the longshoremen, scrapping for work, finding meager pleasures in drink and gambling. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I’m confident that I’ve added to my meager French vocabulary the term “amas globulaire,” or globular cluster, after he shows us a shimmering collection of ancient stars on the edge of our galaxy. Quebec’s Mont-Mégantic National Park is one of the best places on the planet to stargaze 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Zombie Kill Report: A meager half dozen in the entire episode. The Walking Dead Watch: The Arrow in the Door 2013-03-11T15:18:46Z While most of us labored to make ourselves comfortable on the meager throw pillows, Fripp and his pupils sat in utter silence for what seemed like an eternity. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It lost points for meager pieces of "L" and "T" and ranks third on the "slider" scale. Bellevue's Lot No. 3 specializes in booze, beer and bacon 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z He grew up in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, as the middle child in a family of six children, living a life of meager means. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Book critic’s rule No. 117: When the late-summer doldrums hit, when the city is halitotic and iced minted tea is a meager defense, turn to literary Brits to cool your spine and crisp your produce. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Capitalizing on her surge in popularity, and pulling a B rating on Cinemascore — with an A-minus from those under 18 — House will shortly earn back its meager production budget of about $10 million. Who's No. 1: Clint? Jake? Jennifer? Guess. 2012-09-23T21:00:29Z That said, the pie will be just as festive with four or five different kinds of seafood, so don’t let a meager selection at your supermarket deter you. A Seafood Pie for the Feast 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z For many years, Mr. Hill had a meager output, publishing a scant 200 pages’ worth of verse from 1952 to 1994, when his first volume of collected poetry appeared. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Upon its arrival, though, the film's oppressive bleakness, grisly violence and elliptical script translated to poor reviews and a meager box-office gross. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The Museum of Modern Art, so rich in European innovation, almost invariably relegates its relatively meager American prewar holdings to the hallways, if not storage. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Facts and theories are often meager, as are particulars on the crew. Review: ‘Passage to Mars,’ an Otherworldly Voyage on Earth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z That stuff went first every morning by folks of meager means. Toast Ale, From Recycled Bread, Is Now Brewed in New York 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z There was Güljan, a young woman who aspired to become a civil servant, but lacking other opportunities, kept tabs on residents in Izgil’s apartment complex for meager pay. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox: Children from poor and working-class homes are now doubly disadvantaged by their parents’ economic meager resources and by the fact that their parents often break up. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z Aside from longing for better distribution, Cuban producers are anxious for regulations that would let them establish private production companies and seek permits without going through the film institute, whose bureaucracy eats into meager budgets. Digital Technology Is Making Its Mark in Cuba 2013-01-05T00:24:27Z Multiple prominent artists and consumers scolded Tidal's ostentatious news conference and mocked the idea of music's 1% complaining about meager royalty payments from streaming platforms. Spotify: 99 problems but Jay Z ain't one 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But the current meager financing picture diminishes that likelihood. Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We?ll All Be Dieting 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z One shows McKeller’s recognizably African American head in meager outline transformed on the same sheet of paper into a more worked-up head of Apollo, based on a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere. Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Ski slopes in Washington this winter were often empty due to snowfall levelssomewhere between meager and negligible. Low-snow year: Skiers’ loss is hikers’ gain 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The décor consisted of log and stone tables and chairs, meager mattresses and mournful skulls and hourglasses for contemplating the passage of time. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z The family was "dirt poor," scraping by on meager bread and milk rations available in what was then an underdeveloped country. AP Interview: Simmons blasts Israel boycotters 2011-03-22T22:46:04Z Though one gets the sense that the “investigation” proceeds despite the protagonist’s meager efforts. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The economy is recovering in much of the country, but hard times linger in the hills of Oregon, where people make a meager living from a grudging land. In Molly Gloss’s “Falling From Horses,” a cowboy goes to Hollywood to play one Mr. Richmond wrote, “I have a meager knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, but am aware of the all-important injunction to remember.” Theo Richmond, Who Revived the Past in a Polish Shtetl, Dies at 93 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z A tour guide takes you through all these for a meager $15-$20 before dropping you at the white-sand beach. What a Trip: Enlightenment in the caves of Indonesia 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z This is not meager praise, since Bulgakov’s book juggles a dizzying assortment of time frames, including the last days of Jesus, the subject of the Master’s play. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z Robinson’s bottled-up rage surfaces when he is suddenly relieved of his post-Navy job with an ocean salvage corporation and given a meager severance. ‘Black Sea’ Stars Jude Law as a Seething Adventurer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z As such, it’s a supersized version of the stories and images with which black audiences have nourished themselves, when Hollywood offered the most meager of portions. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z She lived off meager royalties, continuing to write and release music. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Zhao Liu, an attorney for the group of women who already have made their opposition known, described the proposed settlement as “pathetically meager” and said it was an attempt to “silence” Weinstein’s victims. Weinstein Co. bankruptcy plan headed to a vote by accusers 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z "Idol's" ratings are but a meager echo of what they once were, so the network will dramatically scale back the singing show's hours starting in January. Broadcasters think sports and live specials will be must-see TV 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Those are meager earnings, but also a low theater count. 'Annabelle: Creation' levitates to no. 1 with $35 million 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z They’re willing to do anything, take any risk, suffer any indignity for the most meager wage. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z "Runner Runner" was far less popular with critics, scoring a meager 8 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes on Saturday. Space thriller 'Gravity' lifts off with $55.6 million debut 2013-10-07T13:34:55Z The meager pleasures of this new world seem light years away from the chaos of their former life. ‘Mobile Homes’ Review: Imogen Poots Gives a Riveting Performance 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z And then over the course of the last month or so I started packing my meager belongings; I think I had four, five, six boxes of stuff. Son of a bigot 2012-09-25T00:00:00Z After a meager debut last weekend, the film took in $8.4 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $30 million. 'Maleficent' has wickedly good $70-million debut; 'West' goes south 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Similarly, more details on the performers’ backgrounds would be appreciated; even the playbill biographies are far too meager. Review: ‘Mother Africa: My Home’ Melds Acrobatics and Drumming 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Despite the fact that Freud himself made only meager references to stuttering in his research, an abundant proliferation of stuttering theories emerged from his followers. How "The King's Speech" gets stuttering wrong 2011-02-21T23:01:00Z "Whatever meager investment we're proposing here would be very valuable," she said. A new bill aims to fix food waste in schools 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Italian dressing comes in second, with a comparatively meager 10% citing it as their dressing of choice. The story of ranch, the "Cool American" condiment that has divided a nation (and taken over Etsy) 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Pooling their meager resources, the three live together as a family and dream of emigrating to America. 'Displaced Persons': Holocaust survivors learn to live again in America 2010-08-18T20:15:00Z Though the Newseum is listed as a popular attraction on TripAdvisor, attendance is still meager compared with other top museums in the area, many of which are federally funded. The Newseum Is Increasingly Relevant, but Can It Survive? 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z I try my best to shield the stew from the view of the three gators patrolling the boat channel, and as we pass them soon thereafter in our canoe I shrug a meager apology. From canopy walk to gator-filled waters, this Florida park offers wildlife aplenty 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Cheap, portable and deep-fried street foods were a solution to meager means and cramped housing. Heads Up: It?s Kosher in Rome?s Ghetto 2011-12-15T21:26:19Z They spring into terrified action, trying to make some kind of brilliant artwork out of the meager materials at hand before she arrives. ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z Unfortunately, the most powerful heater you can plug into a wall maxes out at 1500 watts–which makes it suitable for heating a meager 150 square feet. Great space heaters for your buck 2012-11-18T17:00:00Z But carnal enterprise fails to compensate for the disappointments of broken homes, previous demoralizing romances, artistic failure and a sense of meager privilege. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z A white author named Charles Silberman expressed frustration that the African-Americans were dissatisfied by the meager progress made. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The winter blizzards lasted seven long months, during which the railroads stopped running to their town, and her family was trapped inside their house, subsisting on a very meager diet of potatoes and brown bread. ArtsBeat Blog: Julianne Moore's Favorite Books from Childhood 2011-09-13T18:42:47Z One subject has a stance that is “erect, but not too erect” and a deep gold collar, but its meager mohawk foils its chances: “This peak kills it.” Parlor rollers, pouters and mookees: Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Woman sold a meager 62,000 copies this week, which is surprisingly enough to put her in first place. Jill Scott's New Album Debuts At Number One, Future Down To Second Place 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But that’s the interior; from outside, Paterson’s pallid brown home looks rather meager and suburban. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” finds beauty in humble New Jersey setting 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Police officers make peanuts, and some take bribes to supplement their meager income. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z On that same meager Christmas, Marmee leads her daughters in sharing their food with an impoverished family—a sacrifice that ends in satisfaction and merriment. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But as with many curiosities, its luster seems to have faded quickly, to judge from the meager audience for the first performance of a revival of Phelim McDermott’s production, on Wednesday evening. Opera Review: ‘The Enchanted Island’ Returns to Met Opera 2014-02-28T21:08:04Z "We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence." HBO's Swedish import "Beartown" is a chilling interrogation of the power we give young, athletic men 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z And the hospital and recovery scenes were meager and perfunctory. "Treme's" cheap, ugly showstopper 2011-05-09T03:09:00Z But funds and available units to move homeless people into permanent housing are meager. Apple’s desolate neighbor: Inside Silicon Valley’s largest shantytown 2013-12-17T13:15:00Z In interviews, he said he was tired of boring rehearsals, the punishing discipline and the physical stress of ballet, and dissatisfied with its meager financial rewards. Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Bad Boy, Has a Change of Heart 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Shakespeare actually acted in at least one of Jonson’s plays, while Jonson famously teased the “Hamlet” scribe for his meager command of classical language — “small Latin and less Greek,” in Johnson’s telling. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Youmans expanded Burning Cane from a short film he’d started making at only 16 by emptying his meager savings account and borrowing from family and friends. Teenage flicks: the youngest film-makers ever 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z I mean, it totally depends on where you are, but on the whole it’s pretty meager. ‘Books and brotherhood’: Her club aims to help prisoners start new chapters in their lives 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z At 42 Ms. Neuwirth is among Europe’s most vital and distinguished composers, not that you would guess it from her woefully meager representation in mainstream American concert life. Music Review: Looking Behind Curtains On a Gripping Journey 2011-05-26T21:42:30Z The Huffington Post reports that the soups will be sold at Target for a meager 75 cents each! Warhol soup cans at your supermarket! 2012-09-02T16:00:00Z Playing in bands there, he realized he could get just enough shows to pay his meager bills. How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Many people near me ate two of the individual fruit cobblers offered for dessert; I found them a little meager, but on the other hand I was full, a good sign. Dining With 'The Demons' 2010-07-12T19:47:00Z What home cook doesn’t appreciate a new and creative way to reimagine those few ounces of leftover roast chicken, a meager bowl of last night’s chickpeas, or the remaining blueberries languishing in the refrigerator? A lighter and prettier potato knish for your holiday table — and beyond 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A movie of meager ambitions sets the comforting bar of low expectations. Ride Along: Kevin Hart, Small Cop 2014-01-15T18:37:17Z They live in Compton, surrounded by neighborhood gangbangers and I.C.E. agents, of whom they live in fear; their parents drink too much or struggle to support their families on meager wages. The Future Looks Very Different on Opposite Sides of Los Angeles 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z It's his father, who owns the business and reaps the bulk of its meager reward, a fact of life for Tino but a constant source of exasperation for his wife, Ivonne. 'Circo': one of the greatest shows on a real bare-bones circus family 2011-04-21T21:49:04Z When I eat alone, I spend a lot of time, before I sit down to my meager meal, choosing what to read. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Every tyro director at film school must be handed this assignment: create suspense with the most meager means — a tiny budget, a few characters and, please, no gore. Paranormal Activity 3: Three?s a Shroud 2011-10-19T12:57:15Z Her meager voice is not necessarily, or always, the problem; perhaps it’s more that she’s incurious about making the best of a weakness. Music Review: Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at Prudential Center 2012-07-22T22:52:40Z They let their eldest daughter, 17-year-old Zhang Qin, postpone college and join them in the city to supplement the family's meager income. The most nightmarish holiday commute ever 2011-09-27T16:28:00Z From shortbreads to a twist on the traditional "blossom" cookie, there’s something here for anyone’s taste ... if you do plan on sharing whatever meager crumbs are left after you’ve snacked. 5 easy Christmas cookies to make, and then eat entirely on your own this holiday season 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z But so, too, are weirder weather patterns, meager shade and disruptions to streams and water sources. Heat, Water, Fire: How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But from such comparatively meager beginnings – in corporate terms, anyway – it's difficult to overstate its effect on popular culture at large. 40 Years of MTV: the channel that shaped popular culture as we know it 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z The amount of tears we shed while crying is so meager that evaporation is swift. ‘The Crying Book’ Follows the Many Tracks of Our Tears 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Will they offer their employees the meager respect Land fantasizes about? The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Crafty insta-celebrities and self-branding geniuses and social media gurus assert that submitting to the daily grind to pay the mortgage constitutes a meager existence. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z Much like Captain Kidd and Johanna, the quartet moves from place to place, navigating saloons, dance halls, public houses and other places trying to string together a meager wage. Paulette Jiles’s New Novel Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z France's unemployment rate is stuck at record highs above ten percent and economic growth data for the second-quarter, due to be unveiled on Aug. 14, is expected to show a meager expansion of 0.1 percent. France, despite woes, remained tourism world champion in 2013 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He was so green, he said, that he forgot to arrange for lighting to augment the club’s meager spotlights. Flouting the Mainstream, Forgoing a Corporate Stamp 2010-09-02T21:50:00Z Built in the 1770s atop a paupers' burial ground, it once was home to 500 unfortunate citizens who could not afford to feed themselves and had to rely upon the meager charity of the state. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z Such meager resources for heavily minority schools and districts are a major cause of stark disparities in qualifications, experience and other measures of teacher quality among educators of black versus non-black students. Black lives matter in school, too: Disparities in education begin at an early age — and that needs to change 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z He struggles to supplement his meager military pay by performing menial tasks for a sermonizing captain and offering himself as a subject for the experiments of a crackpot doctor. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z We see in “Young Rock” how with the wrestlers of your father’s era, their lives in the ring are glamorous and exciting, but their lives at home are more mundane, even a bit meager. Dwayne Johnson Finds Room to Grow in ‘Young Rock’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z So few of these metaphors satisfy — they’re heightened, meager, inappropriate — but there is something stirring in their awkwardness, in seeing a new phenomenon slip the net of ready-made language. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Despite its meager distribution, the book was banned at his alma mater. Pat Conroy, best-selling author of ‘Great Santini’ and ‘Prince of Tides,’ dies at 70 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The contract may have been meager, but it was only the beginning; his sales soared. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s a world of scarcity, all right, yet what’s truly meager, and often maudlin, is the movement vocabulary, which buckles without building. Review: Waging Battle With Scarcity and Borders at La MaMa Dance Festival 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z She lacks academic credentials, she’s branded with a “scarlet letter” for collaborating on the sex research, and her meager salary doesn’t cover expenses for a single mom with two kids. 'Masters of Sex' recap: Frustrations mount for Bill and Virginia 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z There’s a sober pace to this sometimes picturesque film: The dutifully arranged action building blocks and the meager story filler are ploddingly punctuated by landscape shots. Movie Review: Keanu Reeves Stars in ‘47 Ronin,’ an Old Samurai Tale 2013-12-24T19:17:07Z Last year, New York Times food columnist Gretchen Reynolds looked at scientific support for the importance of breakfast and found it “surprisingly meager.” Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Well, it depends 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The supposed recovery has been meager and reduced their chances to get experience post-college, and they graduated with staggering levels of student-loan debt. Reality still bites for Gen X — and our independent streak is making things worse 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Speak, Memory collects magazine pieces originally written for Harper’s and The New Yorker, when Nabokov needed cash to supplement his meager teaching income. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z She said she supported herself by taking jobs in retail, making a meager $10 an hour after growing accustomed to an $80,000 annual salary. For New York families in custody fights, a “black hole” of oversight 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z "Blair Witch" and "Bridget Jones's Baby," sequels to films that first hit theaters a generation ago, both stumbled in their debuts this weekend, earning a meager $9.7 million and $8.2 million, respectively. Box Office: 'Blair Witch,' 'Bridget Jones's Baby' fall flat as 'Sully' soars 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z I met Mr. Murphy, and we drove in his cranky Jeep through roadside villages of simple homes with tin roofs and meager yards. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z A friend uses his meager money to buy tuna and kibble for a cat he has adopted, even before he buys food for himself. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z So what events and institutions brought debt from its meager beginnings to its central role in American life? Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Before winding down into a disappointingly meager fall season, it was an excellent year for New York restaurants. Top New York Restaurants of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z And his meager salary as a parking lot attendant doesn’t allow him to offer much financial help to Stacey as she struggles to pay her bills. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy's dumpster diving strikes gold 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But it is best described as an action-thriller, centered around a group of people who use their wits and meager resources to risk their lives for freedom. John Legend and Aldis Hodge Discuss ‘Underground’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Everyone was welcome, even those of meager musical talent. Solstice Serenades in New York City for Make Music Winter 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z There are imperfections: too many “fish” lifts for Snow and Sugar Plum ballerinas; thin choreography for the Snowflake corps, and, after a superb start, a meager end for the Waltz of the Flowers. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: In the Land of Snow 2010-12-07T21:09:00Z He enlivened those meager ingredients with clever compositions and contrasts of hues and typefaces. Dutch Museum Director, Also an Artist, Gets a Show of His Own 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z A rabbi from Buenos Aires pounds the pavement to raise money for his community center in “Shalom Taiwan,” a film whose meager plot could use a bit of a boost itself. ‘Shalom Taiwan’ Review: Taking the Long Way Home 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z They couldn’t find what Turner calls the “just-right Goldilocks bar” of their dreams, and so they started searching New Orleans for “a space that wouldn’t drain the meager funds” they had. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z While a staffer tried to find Ms. Hoover lodging on the campaign team’s meager budget, she and Mr. Avlon went out to dinner and argued over the institution of marriage, among other things. Margaret Hoover and John Avlon on their Post-Partisan Marriage 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z His meager pay is insufficient to feed his large family of six children and two grandchildren. From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z In the 1970s, the league was in a slump, suffering from poor attendance, meager television viewership, and a general lack of enthusiasm. The Lakers-Celtics Rivalry 2010-06-15T23:10:00Z In spring it has a meager look, as if awakened from winter but too beaten by cold to emerge as yet. Favorite Place: In Taos, N.M., an Ordinary Field Evokes the Extraordinary 2012-04-06T20:05:28Z He had survived aircraft attacks, meager rations, bitter cold — and had managed to get discharged. A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s a lot to navigate, and Sunday’s two-hour performance felt both long and meager. Theater Review: ‘Adoration of the Old Woman’ at Intar 2014-03-24T23:20:45Z McDiarmid contends that endemic racism accounts for the meager rate of police investigations and arrests, as it does for so many ills in the First Nations communities of the region. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z On election day, JFK won the popular vote by a meager 0.2 percent. These Trump and Clinton debate tactics will make you a better public speaker 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z He spent a severe winter working a claim, nearly died of scurvy and returned home with a meager poke. 'Gold Diggers': Six lives drawn to glitter of Klondike gold rush 2010-10-14T20:46:00Z Alcott gives Jo the book’s opening line, in which she vents over the family’s meager holiday plans: “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.” Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Cheryl was a published author, making a living — meager — at writing. Nia Vardalos on Fame, That Greek Wedding and ‘Hamilton’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z For centuries, Shakespeare’s male biographers twisted these meager facts into a misogynistic scenario: An aging spinster entraps a callow youth and a loveless, mostly long-distance, marriage ensues. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Four curious characters eke out a meager existence in a metaphorical, metaphysical realm in Samuel Beckett's classic Absurdist drama. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z He eventually invited me over for a beer — nonalcoholic for me, he insisted, since I was driving — and to see the icons he paints and sells to supplement his meager pay. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z I told them what they meant to me, shared my favorite memories, and left instructions for what to do with my possessions and my meager bank account. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z An open house, welcome to all, with nourishment for all, no matter my grandfather's meager earnings. In my mother's kitchen, Diwali came early this year 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Others spend years in obscurity, carving off pounds of credibility for meager dollops of fame. T Magazine: The Enduring, Multigenerational Appeal of Justin Timberlake 2013-09-12T11:35:19Z To the meager extent that one can read the minds of these delphic siblings, True Grit seems to be an honest stab at transfering a beloved book as accurately as possible from page to screen. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z From meager backpacking in her youth to the most lavish of transport as she aged, Connie has traversed the world to beautiful, tucked-away places of unmatched beauty and amazing cuisine. This deliciously simple fish recipe has an unexpected secret ingredient 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z As March turned to April, my own life increasingly resembled a sitcom with a meager location budget, and I felt even closer to the Roses. "Schitt's Creek" was my saving grace in the early shutdown days 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Gi-hun doesn't only take the meager cash his mother offers him. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z I should clarify that I am not British, and that my interest in the party politics of the United Kingdom is almost as meager as my enthusiasm for its royal weddings. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z When he turned 10, Chang was put to work on the village “production team” to help maintain the family’s meager subsistence living. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Limited by meager athletic talent and “stupid feet,” he devoted himself to “the juju science of techno-surfing,” poring over bathymetric maps of the ocean floor and making a study of the patterns of wave sets. What’s Bad News for Coastlines Can Be Good News for Surfers 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z I was 24 when I lost my job as a financial journalist to the Great Recession and sunk my meager savings into a year-long culinary school program in the hopes of becoming a food writer. When you drink Chardonnay, the spaetzle get bigger 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z He said that he had asked Ms. Linet for a few “meager things” from the house, and that she had refused. Gail Levin, Hopper Expert, Questions Sanborn Holdings Source 2012-11-20T23:02:48Z Mohitram described being abandoned at sea as "the worst experience of my life," criticizing the lack of transparency and meager fare. Stranded cruise workers in Brazil finally going home; 300,000 others await repatriation 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Barely off the bus to visit his mother, he’s robbed of his meager belongings; soon thereafter he’s robbed of his soul, forced to sell his first song for just $20. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z A move to a meager Paris apartment only accelerates their diminishing circumstances. ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ Review: Growing Up, Far From Home 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z DO make sure your looks are more meager than your skills. Olympic women’s burden 2012-08-09T15:51:00Z Nadine’s cutting remarks about his partial baldness and presumably meager salary are intended to wound, but he brushes them off. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A meager arrangement of balloons dropped from the rafters during “One Kiss.” Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The cheesy visual effects accompanying the sequence are meager compared with the full-blown psychedelia in Julie Taymor’s movie “Across the Universe.” | 'Magic Trip': Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters 2011-08-04T19:00:07Z The supplies suddenly struck me as recklessly meager. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Those benefits, while meager compared to people's needs, provide low-income Americans with a critical economic and nutritional lifeline. Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z In the meantime, his meager resources are dwindling. Review: ‘I, Daniel Blake,’ Stuck on the Bureaucratic Hamster Wheel 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z That’s a lot of mouths to feed, and Ms. Ziegelman details not merely how the Jews from Russia stocked their meager kitchens, but also how immigrants from Italy, Germany and Ireland did so as well. Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman?s ?97 Orchard? Is a Culinary History 2010-07-27T18:33:00Z Some sparsely populated rural areas also make the list because their head count, while meager, grew dramatically since 2000 thanks to new residents. America's Growing Towns 2010-03-30T22:30:00Z Their shabby Washington State town is a grim dead end whose residents all seem to supplement their meager incomes through crime, be it dealing drugs or white-collar chicanery. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z A creeping paranoia becomes the film’s dominant mood as Hunter’s inquiry is thwarted through misdirection and violence; meager solace comes from a wistful affair with a colleague. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z With meager funding from studios and other private entities, filmmakers rely on public funds. Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouse 2012-01-27T12:14:20Z It’s important to mention that the elder boxer's record has been a meager 6-4 over the past seven years. Boxing and the Age of Denial 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z We see her bright and hopeful as she shops for a wedding dress with her mother and spends more than the meager family budget allows. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z I walked in with my meager wardrobe from Queens, and a few months later my shades were all black and gray too. | Q&A: Sitting Pretty on a Cult Classic 2012-11-07T23:51:47Z Men don’t feel they can support a family, and women don’t want to be tied to a man who may be a drag on her already meager income. How the American Family Has Changed Dramatically 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The Fowlers also decide to bet the last of their meager savings at a roulette table on the Canadian side of Niagara. The Odds': spinning the wheel of marriage 2012-01-26T21:09:03Z The Shades scene is the choreographic heart of “Bayadère”; most of the rest of what we’re shown is, in dance terms, showy, meager Soviet cliché. Review: American Ballet Theater Revives ‘La Bayadère’ Using Familiar Choreography 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Even though royalties from streaming services are often meager, the industry is finding new ways to make money. A Seattle musician’s Spotify Wrapped numbers shed light on how streaming services upended music’s business models 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z As a steady stream of undulating partnering unfolds — including a disturbing section in which Angelica Generosa is passed from one man to the next like a victim — “Memory” is meager in its sinuousness. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Two years later, he abruptly resigned, declaring he was bored with ballet, its punishing physical regimen and meager financial rewards. Anti-Gay and Sexist Posts Cost Sergei Polunin a Role in Paris 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z With rather more meager credentials, the comedian Steve Harvey published a book of romantic advice for women called Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Intimacy, and Commitment. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z His own semi-foreignness looks meager next to the profound alienation of the arriving refugees. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z While those numbers are meager by today's standards, at the time they were enough to hasten the demise of United Artists, and of Cimino's career. 'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z We had very little in the beginning, meager means, a meager budget ... 2010-01-21T17:20:00Z As an adult, she worked long hours as a waitress and hotel housekeeper, but those jobs lacked insurance, too, and the meager pay always ran out before the month did. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z He finances a meager military campaign against the powerful Spanish forces and ultimately is defeated. 'The Liberator' is a compelling primer on Simón Bolivar 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z They’re fed up not just with fighting but with the Confederacy’s greed—its henchmen regular swoop down on their farms to commandeer their already meager stockpiles food and grain. Review: 'Free State of Jones' Is Earnest and Sometimes Exhilarating, But Packs Too Much In 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But the rent on Ms. Koenig’s apartment was $1,200, and her meager income, when she finally had an income, in no way approached that figure. At Home With Emma Koenig: Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life 2012-07-25T23:06:08Z In the 15th century the Erzgebirge was the most important source of silver in Europe — but mining wages were so meager, many workers supplemented their incomes with farming or woodworking. Dreaming of an Artisanal Christmas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The meager comedy of the opening number arose mainly from the ineptitude of these put-upon flunkies, stumbling as Ms. Young used them as pillars so that she might rise on point. Dance Review: Ann Liv Young as Sleeping Beauty at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-13T23:31:08Z Younger men use the carts to scrape together a meager living collecting scrap metal. City tours for the socially conscious: A glimpse into the life of Barcelona’s homeless 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z His family eked by on his civil engineer father’s meager salary. Entrepreneur Naveen Jain Put Together his Top-Flight Meteorite Collection at Warp Speed 2013-06-04T14:00:00Z There’s pathos in how Will scrambles for his meager pay and also in his reluctance to feed the fugitives, whining that it isn’t his turn. Movie Review: ‘The Retrieval,’ a Civil War Drama 2014-04-01T22:46:50Z The kinds of trumped-up romance novels you see on the shelf at Barnes & Noble are meager things indeed to the savvy reader. Gay vampires and bisexual cowboys: why erotica has e-readers to thank 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Even on their best-paying days, their salaries were meager by today’s standards. ‘Battle of Versailles’: How African American models reshaped fashion 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Miriam is an archetypal scrounger in an echelon of cabaret peopled by outrageously self-important know-it-alls with voracious egos and meager talents. Review: Charles Busch in ‘That Girl/That Boy’ Shares Songs and Stories 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This semi-autobiographical family drama was hobbled by headlines about its meager box office take, but it’s hardly the only prestige drama to struggle in theaters this year. Will These Be the 10 Best Picture Oscar Nominees? 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Yet the show’s impact on the recording industry was also more meager than its footprint would suggest. 'American Idol' Was a Victim of Its Own Success 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Britain’s subsidized theaters used to hand their hits over to commercial producers for a meager royalty fee. ‘War Horse’ Closes in Britain, but Its Influence Gallops On 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z He knew that if he accepted it, the money would come out of his own meager wages. Perspective | A question at the heart of the Derek Chauvin trial: Whose fear matters? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Contemporary planners, stripped even further of power, have proposed only meager remedies for such inequality. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Here, Marny calls on his neighbors and his own meager skills to renovate one of the hundreds of the city’s deserted buildings as his new home. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z When hellebores first hit the scene, the varietal offerings were meager, and, in retrospect, the blooms were mediocre. The hellebore: Popular, early and now in a dazzling variety 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Mrs. Grey grew up in meager circumstances in spots that included, she said, a Quaker community in North Carolina and an Indian reservation in Oregon. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z Newspapers are stuffed into cracks in their walls, and snow dusts their meager furniture. They Carried Memorials and Monuments on Their Backs 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z But there was only one option, a meager 55 inches. The Amazon Warehouse Comes to SoHo 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z This miniscule morsel’s so meager and scant, it wouldn’t suffice as a snack for an ant. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z His father was later surprised that he had found the money, but discovered that he had sold off his meager collection of books, including his Bible, to get it. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z From what I could make out in the meager light, he was tall, balding and a little disheveled. In Roald Dahl’s Car 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z They hiked the rest of the way in with their bedrolls, backpacks, and meager supplies. Reliving Woodstock 1969, in photographs 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Paris is not for those of meager means. How to visit Paris on the cheap: dos and don’ts for budget-minded families 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Survivors from opposite sides of a war, who don’t even know “who won,” share their meager supplies, deciding they can be “free and easy” on the water. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z That figure seems meager when compared to such Oscar contenders as "Inception" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," whose budgets were in the $200 million range. Oscar foreign directors talk financing their films 2011-02-27T03:04:09Z The runaway hit “Guardians of the Galaxy” will repeat as the No. 1 movie in North America over a quiet Labor Day weekend, as two new wide-release films arrived with meager results. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Stays on Top 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Texas can claim it as its most financially fruitful movie, garnering loads more than its relatively meager production funds, despite much of the loot never entering the creators’ pockets. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": A metaphor for Nixon-era mayhem 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z These steep consequences are the meager leavings that you and your husband get to discuss and manage. Carolyn Hax: When eldercare devolves to sibling bullying The smallest companies, the ones accustomed to working with meager resources, may also be well designed for the innovative flexibility required of trying times. Perspective | The virus has arts groups hanging by a thread. Michael M. Kaiser has ideas about saving them. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The anecdotes we hear about the characters’ lives feel meager and cursory; they digress from the professional show-and-tell sequences without complementing them in a wholly revelatory way. A lesson in geography, typography and stenography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Van Peebles told People magazine in 1982 that he had supplemented this meager income by ingratiating himself with rich women. Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In elementary school, Tucker convinced him she was dead-set on a country career, and he put his meager means and fierce resourcefulness behind her. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It also agreed to offer a meager settlement to those who applied. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Vargas Llosa mentioned his wife and kids, but Balcells told him to forget about the money, that she would pay out his meager teaching salary herself. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z By following my rule and clinging to the generosity of family, I’m able to supplement the meager meals served at chow. The economics behind the prison strike: An inmate’s guide to earning 24 cents per hour 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The big room didn’t feel embarrassingly empty for this year’s headliners, but at other times the crowd felt meager. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z The judges, satiated only by meager bites of barely edible food, huddled and agreed who to eliminate. Those three dirty words: ‘You’ve been chopped’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I couldn’t live at home on my meager social security, and in France my rent and health care are subsidized by the state. The world of the widow: grappling with loneliness and misunderstanding 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z There are scenes suggesting cops take bribes to supplement their meager income. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z This lighthearted documentary intertwines the legacy of Andy Warhol’s “Brillo Box” with that of the family that bought one of the iconic sculptures for a meager $1,000. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Vera’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z They scraped by until Gerald came up with a scheme to supplement his sister’s meager income by cashing the disability checks of their missing mother. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Turns out they're, well, angels — members of the Adjustment Bureau, a sort of seraphic sanitation squad that oversees and controls the meager lives of humans. The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon's Battle of the Angels 2011-03-04T17:00:00Z Everyone is cold, wrapping themselves in meager shawls, the chill air slapping their flesh. Review | ‘The Western Wind’ brings medieval England back to life 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Child drinks a meager half cup of coffee, claiming to have had a whole pot at home. Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Open; they ignored the scare machines Shark Night 3D and Apollo 18 each cadged a meager $6.7 million. Summer Box Office Wrap: The Help Still Works on Labor Day 2011-09-05T09:55:00Z There’s pathos in how Will scrambles for his meager pay and also in his reluctance to feed the fugitives. ‘The Retrieval’: profits, losses of Civil War fugitive tracking 2014-04-10T20:48:37Z In 2015, the observation that radio had relegated women to a meager number of playlist slots based on supposed conclusions drawn from market research was amplified by now-notorious remarks from a country radio consultant. Bro Country Duets, but With Pop-Star Gals 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That meager fact is a spoiler for “Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man,” because there is virtually nothing else of value to be gained from watching this film. Movie Review: In ‘Neander-Jin,’ a Primitive Pops Up in Germany 2013-07-25T23:59:22Z It’s deluxe on the surface and cheap underneath, its songs carefully planned in gesture but meager in structure and development, hip as hell but determinedly uncool. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z It’s hard not to watch the reduction of her life to such meager pleasures and see in it the inevitable depredations of age that will assail us all. Review: ‘Happy Days,’ an Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, and even in the ’60s, the contemporary holdings were, as far as I was aware, pretty meager. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z Here, the books’ meager word count is a liability. ‘Assume the Worst’: This Isn’t Your Ordinary Graduation Speech 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Small distilleries commonly open tasting rooms and offer tours as a way of marketing on a meager budget. A New Wave of Spirits-Driven Travel 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Near the end of the film, the surviving and adopted members of the Wetherly family make their last, meager supper a testament to what they have already lost. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z I look at her room, all of her toys contained in one meager basket, and I feel an uncomfortable nagging feeling settle into the pit of my stomach. Why depriving your kids of toys is a great idea 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It was a curious admission coming from a guy whose underlings are protesting their working conditions and meager delivery salaries. Are You a Bezos? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z A meager 1 percent increase in digital sales last year created widespread panic that the format had already plateaued. Adele sells most albums in a year since 2004 2011-12-27T20:22:10Z Wade’s clan, the Rileys, traps animals for a living, a meager existence to begin with but one made more so because the McCluskeys are stealing from the snares. Review: ‘Echoes of War’ Follows a Confederate Soldier Home 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Despite relatively meager domestic ticket sales of $37.8 million, “Birdman” had been the favorite to win best picture, having swept the top prize at banquet after banquet leading up to the Oscars. Academy Awards: ‘Birdman’ Wins Best Picture Oscar 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Equally off-putting to some readers will be the meager roles that Hunter gives women to play in his story. Depression-era outlaws come shooting back to life in Stephen Hunter’s latest thriller 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Suddenly, everyone is on the move, Ahlo’s family included, hauling their meager worldly goods across the lush countryside, vividly shot by Andrew Commis. Blame it on the 10-year-old when bad things happen 2014-02-20T19:50:43Z At the meager end of the Live.ly economy, penniless teenagers toil to scrape together enough to buy the cheapest gifts. The Teenage Life, Streamed Live and for Profit 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z A meager cabbage costs thirty dollars one week, forty the next, and that’s when there’s still cabbage to buy. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z But the darkening shivers of his arrangement for string quartet, played by Brooklyn Rider, set up an emotional pivot: He’s still numb from a wrenching loss, and his daily routine provides only meager distraction. Review: In Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Fiction Issue,’ Timelessness and Sept. 11 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z And the promotional value is debatable: Last week’s episode of “The Franchise,” the season’s third, drew a meager 66,000 viewers, rising to a total of 203,000 with repeat broadcasts. Critic’s Notebook: On ‘The Franchise,’ Miami Marlins Flail but Deliver 2012-08-02T22:25:30Z In fact, the tune pierces through the museum on a video with interviews of English veterans who survived tropical diseases, meager rations and the brutality of their Japanese captors. Taking to the River in Thailand 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Bohemia is not a lucrative state, and mother and daughter survived on welfare, the largess of friends and family and the meager earnings from Viva’s freelance articles and occasional bit parts in films. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Even the meager promises are not kept, since further rule-making procedures must occur before key provisions can be implemented. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z Last week’s grosses for “Holler if Ya Hear Me” were actually down from the previous week, when its meager gross of just $170,652 fueled speculation that it would close on Sunday. A Very Quiet Opening Week for 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The apple that was going to be her meager lunch has slipped from her grasp and rolled away. ‘Burbank’ Review: When Disney’s Animators Went on Strike 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z In front of a meager audience of a few dozen people and eight judges, the contestants twirl through the preliminary competition in their swimwear. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It is hard to navigate and antiquated in design, and failing to meet comScore’s threshold of about 50,000 unique visitors a month, its web traffic is too meager to be measured. A Doctor Gives Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop a Pelvic Exam 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Still, in a quiet corner of his home, he slowly built a meager recording rig with a cheap eight-track and a little keyboard, shaping full-band arrangements of songs he never intended for anyone to hear. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Retailing the meager leftovers of Impressionist and Modern art after 50 years of intensive exploitation of limited supplies is proving more profitable than anyone ever hoped for. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z Keyshawn earned a meager 16, but may have earned some audience sympathy votes by talking about getting razzed by his football friends. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Latin Night Means Salsa, No Chips 2013-09-24T03:36:32Z The meager audience “took the edge off a bit.” Once a robust part of Washington’s social fabric, a men’s garden club meets its quiet end 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The only new picture in wide release, Playing for Keeps, stumbled into sixth place with a meager $6 million. Bond Holds, Butler Bombs on a Sleepy Weekend 2012-12-09T22:26:19Z After playing county fairs, arts centers and bars, and splitting earnings so meager their wives stared at them plaintively, Anderson and his bandmates appear poised for something bigger. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z With just their voices and a few meager props, they concoct a madcap variety show that includes a deliriously deranged assortment of music. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is the wisdom of grandparents, who lived in areas where wine was consumed daily but the selection was meager and decreed by custom. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Premiering in January 1981, Hill Street Blues challenged, even confounded the meager audience that sampled it. Steven Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, dies at 74 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Though the house runs on a meager staff, with one full-time and two part-time employees as well as volunteers, it will close unless funds are raised. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Farmhouse Faces Closure 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z More than sixty percent of women workers in 1870 were domestics; live-in help worked from dawn until late at night for meager pay. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z It’s also where we meet that heartbreaking family that is just struggling to get by on these incredibly meager wages. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z On other days that involve just a 15-minute walk to work, then sitting in front of a computer, it's much harder to meet my meager goal of two hours of activity. Taking My Measure 2011-04-06T22:00:00Z Few were willing to risk their livelihoods to tell their tales, because for them the flexibility and opportunity to care for their families while working was worth the meager pay and lack of protections. Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “But I think he surpassed my meager powers. I stopped trying to compete long ago.” In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The experiment, at $3.99 a rental, earned a disappointing $10,709.16, a meager sum that suggested new media might not be as promising for indie film as some predicted. Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z Those are meager earnings, but also a low theater count. 'Annabelle: Creation' levitates to no. 1 with $35 million 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z She never made it big, but she never gave up either, even though her main, meager source of income is a checkout job at a Whole Foods-like supermarket. Review: ‘Ricki and the Flash’ Puts Meryl Streep Behind a Telecaster 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But as a vegan, those temptations were very often removed due to the complete lack of vegan options available or a meager, unappealing offering. I ‘self-experimented’ to compare a vegan diet with eating meat — this is what I found out 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Stan, a runaway, spends his days filling out forms and waiting to meet with apathetic caseworkers to secure his meager subsistence. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The couple’s relative youth and meager earnings made them ineligible for government assistance. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In a fluid series of snippets, we see Jimmy greet his low-life clients, argue his long-shot cases, collect his meager paychecks and buy cup after cup of vending machine coffee. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Jimmy's Step Toward the Netherworld 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Sales are modest and sometimes close to nonexistent, but the bees are her only means of scraping together a meager living. ‘Hive’ Review: In the Aftermath of War, a Survivor Finds Herself 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He told me that his ex-girlfriend had recently drained his meager bank account and vanished, leaving her infant behind. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z Their parents—no longer in possession of the moral authority that war confers—have to prove themselves on the meager battlefields of their suburban homes instead, a generalized fear replacing any specific enemy. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He also looked back on his life as an artist and described it witheringly: “Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire.” Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Meanwhile, the Doves want to transform their meager camp into a utopia for abandoned women -- something that can't happen if an invasion alerts the superstitious villagers to Dendera's existence. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Giusti strides over to the offending cook’s station and confirms the meager supply. From Georgetown to Copenhagen, a chef takes charge The so-called “Hush Law” threatens the basis of their closeness, forcing them to water down their conversation to a meager daily quota. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z And before these women were lost, they were largely forgotten, estranged from their families, beyond the reach of whatever meager municipal services could have helped them. 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Even in the best vintages, it produces a relatively meager amount of wine. The Value of Burgundy, Regardless of the Price 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Disturbingly, Republicans originally sought to impose work requirements on all recipients up to age 65, forcing older poor people to toil for their meager food assistance. Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Theater directors bear heavy responsibility for a production’s failure yet enjoy only a meager portion of the glory that playwrights and actors receive when a show catches fire. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Apparently Noah’s somewhat meager roster of talents includes seeing the future. 'The Affair' Season 2 Premiere Recap: A Brewing Storm 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The cable news network’s meager coverage of the protests warranted two scathing segments from Jon Stewart on Monday’s “Daily Show.” Jon Stewart blasts CNN for skipping Baltimore coverage to focus on the “meaningless White House Correspondents’ Dinner circle jerk” 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature. ‘The Lie’ Review: A Child’s Crime, a Parental Conspiracy 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z One on one, they have serious intellectual assets; but as a group, their meager numbers in Middle-earth during this Second Age are no match for the fire-breathing horde in “House of the Dragon.” Fantasy Face-Off: ‘The Rings of Power’ vs. ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Now, local industry having died out, the population has thinned, and the House has trouble mustering even the most meager salaries for a skeletal staff. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z For all its ache and churning emotions, “Butter” winds up being little more than a meager “Afterschool Special.” ‘Butter’ Review: High-Stakes Popularity 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z That’s a meager number given the scale of the problems we’re talking about, mostly because philanthropic groups and governments still tend to be wary of this kind of investment. Architecture Review: Real-Life Design: Erecting Solutions to Social Problems 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z I, who've eked out a fulfilling, if meager, living these past dozen years as a food and drink journalist, on the whole find real joy and release in preparing a meal, despite the occasional rage-fail. Do not rage-cook mapo tofu, and other emotional kitchen lessons 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Grande’s mother returns to Mexico, bringing Grande a new little sister, but she finds few, meager opportunities for earning enough to create a home for them. Never stop crossing borders 2013-01-27T15:59:00Z Box office returns are expected to be meager. New York first-night moviegoers shrug off The Birth of a Nation controversy 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z He slumps over in meetings and can’t even bring himself to toss out a meager pitch on a major project when his boss calls upon him to do so. We love Paul Rudd, even in his unremarkable new Netflix show “Living With Yourself” 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Airbus had a meager showing on day one in Dubai, announcing just one order: Air Baltic ordered 30 small single-aisle A220-300s. Dubai Air Show opens with a huge boost for Boeing 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z No matter how meager a household’s earnings, no expense can be spared. Chapter 4: The Wedding 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z The allocations reminded many Nigerians of the economic inequality in a country where politicians earn huge salaries while essential workers like doctors and academics often go on strike to protest meager wages. Nigeria’s government budgets for SUVs and president’s wife while millions struggle to make ends meet 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The combined total of 34 trucks bringing desperately needed food, water and medical supplies amounted to just 3% of Gazans’ previous meager average daily commodities imports. Opinion: Why isn't more humanitarian aid reaching Gazans? 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Combined with previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, these crystals are judged to be shaped like the same pointy, hexagonal prisms as quartz is on Earth, but just a meager 10 nanometers in size. JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z And he struggled to move the ball down the field, finishing with a meager 199 yards, his lowest total since before that first Utah loss last season. Caleb Williams, USC hope first loss will be an emotional catalyst in Utah rematch 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z When water does trickle from pipes, the meager flow lasts no more than 30 minutes each day and is so contaminated with sewage and seawater that it’s undrinkable, residents said. Lack of water worsens misery in besieged Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z “The typical homeowners we see are retirees who have long since paid off their mortgage, but are maybe living on a pittance of Social Security and meager retirement funds,” she said. A new law allows homeowner to sell ADUs like condos, boosting homeownership. Here's how AB 1033 works 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Weeping families in bleak rural Thai villages told the Agence France-Presse news agency that their relatives went to Israel to pay off family debts or upgrade their meager existence. Thailand reels at high toll of deaths, hostages from Israel-Hamas clash 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet growth will likely slow to a meager 0.7% annual rate in the final three months of the year, Goldman estimates. Rising long-term interest rates are posing the latest threat to a US economic ‘soft landing’ 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z He made a meager salary on the Indian TV show “Fauji,” but landed his cinematic debut within a year in the commercial hit “Deewana,” playing a ruthless avenger. Meet Shah Rukh Khan: If you haven't heard of the Bollywood superstar, it's about time you did 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z "In the last four years, the average price of a new car is up 30%, meanwhile auto worker wages have risen a meager 6%," Fain said. Potential UAW strike could cut production, push up vehicle prices, analysts say 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back. The NRA's toxic fuel 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z A simultaneous doubling of meager public sector wages and pensions did little to cushion the blow, as it accelerated inflation and further weakened the Syrian pound, further piling the pressure on millions living in poverty. Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Her mother’s income from her unit funds her elderly care, but she can barely cover it with meager profits. L.A. tenants welcomed the rent freeze, but landlords are tired of restrictions 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z The euro zone also announces preliminary second quarter gross domestic product figures, which are estimated to show meager growth of 0.2% and a decline in industrial production. Asian stocks slip as China data continues to disappoint 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The euro zone also gets an economic data drop on Wednesday, with preliminary Q2 GDP figures estimated to show meager growth of 0.2% and industrial production data likely to be negative. Morning Bid: Stock markets tense as China gloom builds 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s rude mechanicals, the group of rustic laborers who pool their meager theatrical talents to present a play in honor of the royal nuptials, is for many the comic highlight of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Review: 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' is spectacularly clumsy. That's meant as a compliment 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z “Tory, like all other perceived liabilities to the football program, became expendable to UGA, and despite her loyalty and meager salary, has been steamrolled,” he said. Georgia fires football staffer who survived fatal crash, less than a month after lawsuit 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z A meager supply of homes for sale is squeezing Seattle-area home shoppers already contending with high prices and elevated mortgage rates. Another big challenge for Seattle-area homebuyers: Few homes for sale 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z There’s also the question of the team’s meager payroll. Soaring Orioles hovering atop the American League — and their future could be even brighter 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The whales feast on massive numbers of krill to make up for their meager serving size, but near-coast waters can’t support large populations of animals, even small ones. Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales) 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z But if a new government could rescind the pledge for new exploration, and recent drilling has produced meager results. British Government Signals Support for Oil and Gas Industry 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z But he aims to continue laboring at least five days a week so he can pool his meager earnings with one of his two children. Many immigrant workers face a grim future without retirement benefits. A California bill could help 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z But growth remains meager, and the fund’s economists warned that serious risks remained. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z At issue is the number of contracts the IDB awards to Chinese firms relative to its meager share of the bank, which hovers around 0.1%. Lawmakers press for more scrutiny over China’s ‘malign influence’ at development bank 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Global growth, however, remains meager by historical standards, and the fund’s economists warned that serious risks remained. Global Economy Shows Signs of Resilience Despite Lingering Threats 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z With the exception of the thriving southeast oil patch called “Little Texas,” most of the meager growth has been in and around its largest cities. Urbanization, Latinos and a far-right GOP. How New Mexico went from battleground to blue 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Allowing meager numbers of Black and brown students into elite historically white institutions never changed the role of such institutions in buttressing the systems of injustice that still dominate our nation. Historically Black Colleges and Universities Have Affirmative Action Solutions. But They Need Help 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The bone-dry air and meager plant coverage allows sunlight to heat up the desert surface. Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z He stopped beside a spit of grass near an interstate where six people were clumped in the meager shade of a mesquite tree. In Phoenix, Heat Becomes a Brutal Test of Endurance 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Seattle’s meager team success historically has created an environment where fans passionately latch on to individual stars of the franchise. J-Rod Show gets All-Star stage at home despite challenging second season in majors 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z He told my colleagues — in a rare conversation with a prisoner of war — that he was just told to dig trenches, working on meager rations. Your Thursday Briefing: Israel’s West Bank Raid Ends 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z With its meager natural resources in a region awash with oil and gas, Jordan seemed to have drawn a losing ticket. A troubled new power plant leaves Jordan in debt to China, raising concerns over Beijing’s influence 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z That is especially so since many of the papers generate meager advertising revenue. How Local Officials Seek Revenge on Their Hometown Newspapers 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Later, Mr. Trump sent out a clip from Mr. Christie’s remarks in which the former New Jersey governor explained ham-handedly about the current meager choices in the Republican primary cycle. Trump stars as Bluto in ‘Animal House’ presidential primary 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Republican political consultant Doug Heye said despite Mr. Christie’s meager poll numbers, he has the potential to inflict damage on any of the candidates, including Mr. Trump. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie takes aim at Trump in longshot White House bid 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s on a meager prison diet, restricted on how much time he can spend writing letters and forced at times to live with a cellmate with poor personal hygiene, making life even more miserable. Inside Russia’s penal colonies: A look at life for political prisoners caught in Putin’s crackdowns 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z With the disappointing Padres getting meager offensive production at catcher, they hope Sánchez can provide a boost. Sanchez catches, goes 1 for 4 in 1st game with Padres 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The meager school-transfer program continued to grow, but the volunteers were still mostly Black children, which didn’t achieve the goal of racially balancing the schools. Seattle schools chose integration. But then it fell apart 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The eurozone economy scraped out meager growth of 0.1% in the first quarter, according to initial estimates, with inflation eroding people’s willingness to spend as their pay fails to keep pace. Germany economy shrinks in first quarter, signaling one definition of recession 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Despite meager means, Jessica grew up surrounded by encouragement and love. A lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s more prevalent in Black Americans 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z |
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