In Test match terms, Australia batsmen have become frail in thinking and flabby in technique; there are pace bowlers of considerable promise but physical fallibility, the result, many good judges think, not of too much bowling at an early age but not nearly enough.
H L Mencken, the sage of Baltimore and the scourge of all that was phoney and flabby in American culture in the first half of the 20th century, declared that any good critic was acting not from "the motive of the pedagogue, but the motive of the artist".
The warmer wine will probably taste more alcoholic and flabby in structure.
Most officials said yesterday that dismantling the office of the independent investigator would invite a return to the flabby in-house investigations of the past.
Many of us were brought up on TV, and many of us think we read too little, went outside too little, and got too flabby in mind and body as a result.
Mr. Williams is an old pro of the conversational barroom line, the rangy line — sometimes raw boned and sinewy, sometimes windy and flabby — that Walt Whitman and Robinson Jeffers used in trying to lasso and hogtie the whole of American experience.
SEX -- Desperate for drugs, Caroline has moderately graphic sex with her boyfriend, who procures for her early on, with a pimp and finally, as a nearly comatose object, with a flabby businessman in a hotel room.
A beef rib braised into pale, flabby submission in a mixture of ginger beer, chilies and tomatoes might have been made by your college roommate in a borrowed Crock-Pot one night over winter break, then discarded in favor of Greek pizza from that place out by the discount liquor store.
The men -- Jacques's friends and neighbors -- are a collection of rustic dingbats whose gnarled and flabby bodies and faces stand in marked contrast to David's smooth, epicene features.
A second big step was to force the regular armed forces to accept a sharp cut in the privileged and flabby ranks of the top brass.It is much less clear how, when or whether any of this will happen, and how the cuts will fall on the army, navy and air force.
