Without any security guards to call and knowing that the police would not come soon, if at all, the white-haired dean, Habib Kazdaghli, could only sigh, retreat behind a flimsy locked door, and try to reassure his visitors that everything would be all right.
They built a flimsy makeshift ramp and tried to drive over a U.S. Border Patrol fence near the Imperial Sand Dunes in Southern California.
Because I've been beaten cursed at, cut, burnt, scratched, screaming into the night as I become a flimsy punching bag, I've learned to try and predict how others will react to what I say and or do.
Once in the tiny tailor's shop, equipped only with a flimsy, very public bamboo screen for changing, I tried to give Rhee some privacy.
Savage described the concert as a hugely ambitious, terrifyingly loud show, "spread over four acts and held together by a flimsy 'narrative' about Gaga and her dancer friends trying to get to a party".
Collecting CSF from some portions of the subarachnoid space may be a bit like trying to suck fluid through a flimsy straw.
Manning, recently cast as the team's biggest question and now one of its sturdiest answers, has been placed in the unenviable position of trying to outscore opponents who have been feasting off a flimsy defense.
"She should let him go in!" "She needs to let him out of that chair!" "She should — " An older woman (the grandmother?) was trying to control a husky elementary-school-age child in a flimsy stroller meant for a toddler.
Prince is more intense and sensual, if also more awkward, right down to the eternally embarrassing yet endearing moment when he tries to grab a lamppost that is revealed, via gravity, to be a flimsy prop.
Fattemah cries when she tries to explain what motivates a mother-to-be to cross the sea in a flimsy rubber boat, and then spend weeks walking and bussing to Scandinavia.
"We're going away on Tuesday [against Whyteleafe] with quite a flimsy squad and so, if you like an analogy, Tony will be building another jigsaw puzzle in trying to get us a result.
