Sentence examples for but paltry from inspiring English sources

It looked beautiful but paltry.

But don't mistake these managers for inveterate Chicken Littles whose defensiveness produces safe but paltry returns over the long term.

That would be better than now but paltry compared with the potential extent of bank misconduct and with the scale of the mortgage debacle.

That is not bad for a guy who will not be 27 for another seven months, but paltry by the standard of some of his contemporaries.

But paltry adjustments to grand works rarely yield vital theater, and if you're not going to go for dazzlingly mad deconstructions, in the manner of the Wooster Group, you might as well play it straight.

The laudable, but paltry, £2.4m set aside for the Portas Pilot schemes is a drop in the ocean compared to the tax that should be paid by big business.

Not actually thrown today, we hasten to add, but a video clip of a poultry (but not paltry) missile aimed at the then Liberal leader David Steel in 1987.

That is better than the 11% McKinsey reported last month, but still paltry.There remain millions of uninsured Americans who could buy coverage, but they seem unconvinced that Obamacare will help them.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

But how paltry it can seem as a medium of expression for all that fills our searching souls!

But the paltry Union Carbide payments and the fact that Mr. Anderson was able to find sanctuary in the United States fanned the always latent anti-multinational sentiment in India.