Sentence examples for feeble sense from inspiring English sources

Ordinary Chinese had previously had a feeble sense of national identity, and many Chinese thinkers and leaders despaired of mobilizing them in the task of restoring the country's greatness.

The arrests and tear-gassing of journalists on Wednesday night only highlighted a theme that's been on display in every aspect of this case since it began: a feeble sense of public accountability on the part of local law enforcement.

"It's true," the fictional Houellebecq says, "I derive only the feeblest sense of solidarity with the rest of the human species".

A few years after the Moynihan Report, Harvard urbanologist Edward C Banfield, who was to go on to serve as an advisor to Ronald Reagan, felt free to claim that: "The lower-class individual lives from moment to moment … Impulse governs his behavior … He is therefore radically improvident: whatever he cannot consume immediately he considers valueless … [He] has a feeble, attenuated sense of self".

Add to this a feeble-minded sense of humour failure, a failure to realise that not finding something funny is not the same thing as being offended, and that being offended is not the same thing as having an actual opinion, and that a metaphor born of frustration – "Crap!

And the result is civil small talk and feeble smiles and a sense of having compromised.

Lakes hopes the cosmic compass might be useful for sensing the feeble tug of other weak forces that would topple the accepted laws of physics.

He concludes that the sublime positively reinforces in us a sense of our feeble place in the world.