Sentence examples for as the weakling from inspiring English sources

FOR years continental Europe has been regarded as the weakling of the world economy, wheezing along behind healthy, trim America and young, gambolling Asia.

When Bosley Crowther, reviewing the movie in The New York Times, described Mr. Jacobi as "irksomely sluggish and pathetically lax as the weakling Van Daan," it was high praise.

Cooper started DC's (also referred to as The Weaklings) in 2006, after hackers broke his four-year-old "Dennis Cooper's Blog".

The picture's apparent reversal of gender norms — this Snow White wears armor, wields a sword and leads an army into battle — struck Parlato (who does not seem to have seen it) as emblematic of "a Hollywood agenda of glorifying degenerate power women and promoting as natural the weakling, hyena-like men, cum eunuchs".

In theatrical terms, the Freudian interpretation — which posited that Hamlet hesitated to kill Claudius because he identified with the man who shared his mother's bed — allowed the Prince to be shown as a strong, if tortured, man, rather than as the sensitive weakling that the Victorians had popularized, and that Gielgud still played to perfection.

Christie's dismissal of Obama as a "petulant child" may not have been as harsh as the "feckless weakling" charge he made during the last debate, but the overall point was just as clear: The New Jersey Governor is going to keep shouting and shoving to stay in this race.

Two years into his development as part of the group guided by Arnold at Bath University, the weakling is steadily gathering strength as an emerging force in high hurdles.

He is hardly the weakling he was portrayed as".

In the thrilling voice of Hermann Uhde, even the weakling Gunther comes off as a personage of quasi-mythic stature, elevating the tragedy remarkably.

Neither is willing to play the weakling.

My warlock is no longer the weakling she was before.