Why did humans become so different: bipedal, upright, hairless, with limited strength, feeble jaws, bad backs, embarrassingly large heads and brains with a cerebral cortex four times the size of a chimp's?
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Though he later describes this period as a failure — he is a "feeble anti-Semite, a bad racist" — his leanings toward neo-Nazism mingle with his proud Croatian mother's "nationalistic madness" as he enlists to fight first "for a free and independent Croatia, then for a free and independent Herzegovina and finally for a free and independent Croatian Bosnia".
Purchasing-manager indices of activity in the services and manufacturing sectors in the final three months of 2014, compiled by data-firm Markit, were the weakest since the third quarter of 2013, suggesting that growth remained feeble in late 2014.Deflation is bad, if it persists and people and businesses come to expect prices to fall.
This is the Thatcher I saw at a memorable meeting she convened to discuss German unification at Chequers in 1990, with her mental image of the continent in a 1940 timewarp (bad Germany, feeble France) and her smouldering resentment at being out-handbagged by Helmut Kohl.
Another explanation might be that productivity growth has ground to a halt, which is neither surprising, given its rather feeble performance to date, nor bad.
In a frequent feature on podcast Comedy Bang Bang, "Harris Phone Cornerr" (later "Foam Corner"), he imparted deliberately bad jokes and feeble plays on words to host Scott Aukerman and guests, their dumbfounded laughter and subsequent deconstructions serving as his audience.
Derivative plot, feeble characters, clunking dialogue, embarrassingly bad 3D special effects – M Night Shyamalan is at it again with his latest fantasy adventure When The Waterside Inn this year celebrated keeping three Michelin stars for 25 years, they threw a party.
In January 1862, he wrote, "McClellan is either feeble as a reed, or a bad man".
But it's not so feeble that a cogent case against a bad idea cuts no ice.
