Sentence examples for feeble lines from inspiring English sources

Jenkins, in the face of falling profits, abandoned his "pay for performance" mantra and instead spouted feeble lines about the risk of a "death spiral"– a tired old cliche, as Robert Pickering, successful former boss of Cazenove, said this week.

But the industry is known for churning out slapdash films with feeble story lines, amateurish acting and sloppy production values.

But the stewing by Gruden and Fassel over the 53-man hand they were dealt and the teams' feeble offensive lines helped push each club to chaos.

That is a feeble argument.

(The Ace actually had a feeble in-line 6).

Yet Brown keeps lapsing into a feeble technocratic line of attack instead, complaining "the Tories' sums don't add up".

The Gambling Commission, the industry's regulator, has so far issued only a feeble, one-line statement that it has "received a number of complaints about this matter" and is "making further enquiries".

Sanath Jayasuriya, who has been carrying Sri Lanka's en feebled batting line-up almost single-handed, is suffering from tonsillitis.

The voices often collide on the same page, as if "I love the admonitory and minatory tone of this poem, the way WS conceals his vulnerability, his great grief and disappointment, behind the dead baritone of this grim augur" wasn't profoundly at odds with the feeble joke eight lines later (riffing on a phrase of Vendler's): "I hope I never get invited to a nonce event.

He declined, telling her, "You permit feeble lines & feeble words".

Six of the 14 films which featured a leading or supporting senior included ageist comments, such as a character telling another to "just sit here and let Alzheimer's run its course"; another included the line: "mentally feeble, sick old ladies".