Skilful, intriguing, though not wholly convincing: characters take extreme actions for some fairly flimsy reasons.
That's fairly flimsy as thematic links go, but the program itself had ample attractions, thematic or not.
Until the events of 11 September 2001, most passenger aircraft had a fairly flimsy door between the cockpit and the cabin.
Still, there's a fairly flimsy social construct that redheadedness is a bit odd, and an even more flimsy one that it is unattractive.
But when Miliband challenged him on the fairly flimsy nature of the assurances given by Pfizer, and about the prospect of job cuts and the company being broken up if the takeover goes ahead, Cameron was forced onto the defensive.
Until the 9/11 attacks, most passenger aircraft had a fairly flimsy door between the cockpit and the cabin, because an attack on the pilots and a takeover of the aircraft was considered implausible.
The White House explained to me that it would be "unprecedented" for Mr. Obama to repeat a position that was already on the public record, but that strikes me as a fairly flimsy excuse.
The first half of the novel, which Mosley spends getting Bennet into his cell in Charles's basement, feels like a fairly flimsy pretense for the ensuing dialogues on evil.
