He found work in a local financial firm, but it felt paltry now to be buying ten-thousand-dollar mutual funds.
Donald Trump is making that increase look paltry.
To make matters worse, the book's illustrations feel both paltry and random; indeed, many of the images that Mr. Sullivan discusses — like the Norman Rockwell depiction of Rosie the Riveter that helped popularize work clothes for women during World War II and the racy 1978 Calvin Klein billboard in Times Square that helped hype his jeans line — do not appear in the volume.
The distance felt embarrassingly paltry compared with the marathon and triathlon appeals that normally peppered my inbox, but I duly set up a JustGiving page explaining that, before Christmas, I could barely run for a bus, so 10K was a long way for me.
It is 2015; to simply ask for honesty from public figures as black people lie dying in the streets feels like a paltry, retrograde request.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode, 'Once More, with Feeling', registers a paltry outstanding music direction nomination.
Imagine how the bereaved and the survivors will feel about Babar's paltry sentence".
The prime minister received loud cheers at the conference on Saturday when he told party members that West Australians were right to feel aggrieved over their paltry share.
Critics who feel such sums are paltry compared with the billions that banks made peddling overvalued stocks can take comfort in the fact that a record of findings to be released next month as part of the settlement could prove valuable to the dozens of class-action lawsuits the banks still face.
Freelancers, with their paltry salaries, feel it more than anyone.
