Sentence examples for feeble work from inspiring English sources

Take, for example, this bit of aesthetic theory, disgorged by Engleby after listening to Beethoven's late quartets: " 'Late work.' It's just another way of saying feeble work.

There was one feeble working LED bulb and I had to stoop at all times; the ceiling was 4ft 11in high.

Dr. Schwartz said in an interview that in time she had concluded that all the current discrimination technologies were too feeble to work and that at some level the Pentagon and its contractors were in collusion.

Twelve people were dead in the cars, and the remainder were too ill and feeble to work.

And now we're going to replace that with a system in which large numbers of Americans have to plead for special dispensation, on the grounds that they're too feeble to work for a living".

Asma's grandmother was a beggar and her grandfather was too feeble to work.

But, with the creative vision Mr. Tisci has shown previously, it seemed feeble to be working to an established formula.

Opinion is divided on his abilities: The Musical Times considers him to be "one of the feeblest poets" whose work was used by Schubert, and comments that he "was content with versifying pretty ideas", while the singer and author Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau considered Schubart to be "a very talented poet, musician and orator".

During prime ministers' question time this morning Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked the apparently feeble record of the work programme in getting youngsters out of work for over nine months into jobs.

Screenwriter Zach Helm's comedy has some quirky points, but it's very sugary and sentimental, and feeble compared to the work of those who have done the same sort of thing better: Woody Allen or Charlie Kaufman.

The rest of the action can thus be folded into summary — feeble but also staunch work by the veteran Sox starter Jake Peavy, who gave up four hits and two runs in the first inning, and pitched out of something worse, then escaped a further pickle, in the fourth, when he loaded the bases with no outs but wiggled free.