Sentence examples for a poor specimen from inspiring English sources

Sadly, this discovery of my beloved new genre was made in the dire midst of a poor specimen, Cowboys & Aliens, which lacks the "Versus" but broadly fits the mould.

In the play, as in real life, Darwin is moved to publish by Alfred Russel Wallace, a young man whom Parnell's Darwin dismisses as "a nobody, a collector, a poor specimen hunter," but who has independently come up with a theory just like the one Darwin has been chewing on for decades.

For its critics now, it is seen as Hirschi (1993) describes it: a poor specimen of research and thinking consistent with requirements of government bureaucrats.

So much for the dead & now for the living. there is a poor specimen of a bird, which to my unornithological eyes, appears to be a happy mixture of a lark pidgeon & snipe….

One other observation at Bahia Blanca is worth noting: Darwin records in his notes and in that same letter to Henslow a bird that is, to his eyes, a strange mixture of features: So much for the dead & now for the living. there is a poor specimen of a bird, which to my unornithological eyes, appears to be a happy mixture of a lark pidgeon & snipe….

All in all, he says, he's a pretty poor specimen of a man.

Both Kerouac and Burroughs wanted to join the Navy, but were turned down: Kerouac misbehaved, and Burroughs was "a poor physical specimen".

"Non-diagnostic" levels included any case where a cytology diagnosis could not be made due to a poor quality specimen per the cytology report.

However, the technique remains vulnerable to poor specimen quality and sampling error.

Delayed specimen collection, poor specimen collection techniques, specimen transport problems, and lab media contamination are but a few of the practical constraints often influencing the outcomes of the laboratory diagnosis of pertussis.

No definite neuronal component was evident by report, although this may have been difficult to discern due to poor specimen quality.