Sentence examples for a pretty flimsy from inspiring English sources

Foam is a pretty flimsy building material, yet frog nests are not slapdash affairs.

The novel is immensely entertaining, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, but it's also a pretty flimsy production, with an unsatisfying and jerry-built conclusion.

This is a pretty flimsy plot for a motion picture, but flimsy plots were a central feature in new wave films.

"Thus far it's a pretty flimsy showing -- lots of public relations and not much substance," said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, who has pushed for a law that would fine the airlines for breaking their own rules.

His main claim to fame is as a panellist on Mock The Week, a pretty flimsy premise for a full-length autobiography and his healthy contempt for television ("a shiny bauble used to distract morons while they're having their pockets picked") makes this a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars.

At the same time the European Union is investigating a pretty flimsy anti-trust complaint against Google, it's conspiciously ignoring a case in Italy where three Google executives have been found guilty on a ridiculous charge.

"It got to the point where it was feeling pretty flimsy as a concept.

But a lot of it is pretty flimsy, relying on tiny groups – say the AWL, which has 120 members, and would have to be working pretty damn hard to twist thousands of young arms.

This is the first time in our life we have ever been of the slightest service to a screen star, and it's pretty flimsy start, if you ask us.

In the real world this would be pretty flimsy proof of a cause-effect relationship.

Their explanations sound like pretty flimsy rationalizations, but usually when there's a rationalization, there's a fairly obvious motive behind it.