Her political future threatens to be as flimsy as her doctorate.
The governor and the mayor announced budget plans that are based on revenue assumptions that may be as flimsy as a striking screenwriter's bank account.
It suits our purposes to do so, and one of those purposes may be as flimsy as the desire to be excused from reading the books in question before telling the world what we think of them.
High fashion may be as flimsy as a wisp of chiffon - Givenchy and Christian Lacroix are loss-making parts of the LVMH empire, as is Thierry Mugler at Clarins - but the spin-off benefits for parent companies are enormous.
As she sits in those meetings, Nazneen first of all burns with silent admiration for Karim and his impressive certainty about his place in life, but gradually she comes to realise that her lover's dreams of Islamic renaissance may turn out to be as flimsy as Chanu's dreams of integration.
A novel on Alexander the Great or Joan of Arc can be as flimsy and superficial as any schoolgirl romance.
