Sentence examples for a poor figure from inspiring English sources

Vain, querulous, disputatious and stubborn, he often cuts a poor figure in that crowded company of geniuses, and his own countrymen responded accordingly.

The judge, Baron Huddleston, who makes a poor figure in this story, is now renowned for the ruling disallowing the defense of necessity, which is still the decisive precedent in murder cases.

Michael Noone, a skillful player, who had been in the Army for some time was afraid of cutting a poor figure on the hurling field, and it took a lot of persuasion to make him appear.

Made for roughly $40m, Aloha has grossed approximately $20m in the US since opening on 12 July; not a terrible number for a small-scaled romantic comedy, but a poor figure for one starring Stone, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams and Bill Murray, from the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, which grossed over $150m in 1996.

Many patients were impaired on the adult memory and information processing battery (AMIPB) test of delayed figure recall although, as suggested earlier, this was partly due to impaired visuospatial function, evident in a poor figure copy.

The wood is close grained and as such it is similar to that of A. saccharum, but its texture is softer, less dense, and has a poorer figure and machining qualities.

The 24 financial companies included in the report scored an average of 4.2, a relatively poor figure, TI said.

Borrowers who want to put the minimum down will now be required to have credit scores of at least 580, a relatively poor figure.

I'm not sure people realise that she saw the artist as a poor tormented figure.

This is a poor sales figure compared to the 51,726 copies of Shadow Hearts and 753,251 copies of Max Payne sold in the same period for the PS2.

At the recruitment stage, individuals inbred at f = 0.25 had a performance of 71% relative to outbred individuals in a good environment, but only 28% in a poor environment (Figure 1).