At the very least, buy round toothpicks, not flimsy flat ones, and consider small bamboo skewers, like the ones used for satays.
However, for all its robustness, it requires a delicate balance and Paul Kerryson's new production at Leicester, with its flimsy, flat sets and front-facing performances, has strayed too far from the tone of the original movie.
This is a flimsy, flat, flaccid view of freedom.
A sheet of paper, flimsy when flat, gains surprising strength as it crumples.
If you're wearing a lot of flimsy ballet flats, your feet and body could be suffering.
But this distinction turns out to be entirely dubious, if not debilitating, since Mr. Ahonen cannot drum up anything of interest for most of them to do, and the flimsy characterizations and flat acting combine to lend the production an amateurish air that previous Amoralists shows, scrappy though they might have been, mostly avoided.
Manipulated readymades often work on a continuum that runs from the flimsy to the flat-footed, and this show, at its weakest, slides toward these extremes.
While at some level we certainly do feel "we could reach out and touch him", the painting makes analogies with entities that are, like painting itself, flat and flimsy.
That's right, that flat, round-toed, flimsy shoe, most likely adorned with a dainty bow, that you have been wearing with skinny jeans on weekends, is finished.
Hodgson has not had a terrible sporting year and ends it having swapped Hull KR for Canberra Raiders but it will be remembered for the moment after England went out of the Four Nations, when a night out ended, in the early hours of the morning, with Hodgson launching himself at the flimsy door of a student flat in Dunedin, flying straight through it and leaving a Hodgson-shaped hole behind.
BATI KOT DISTRICT, Afghanistan — The main road into Afghanistan from the east traverses a flat, parched countryside, past flimsy roadside bazaars and squalid villages.
