A portion of the cramped apartment at 410 East 89th Street was partitioned off with a flimsy, free-standing wall that did not quite reach the ceiling, offering "privacy" from her roommate, a high school friend.
One parent complains that the Harris fleeces – which have been provided free – are "flimsy", and that when parents asked for their children to be able to wear a thicker coat, they were told they could not.
If I fancy myself one of those "high information voters" who bemoan flimsy arguments and fact-free rhetoric, then publicizing my politics can feel like a public duty – a way to counteract the spectacularly unchallenged bullshit that can spew unfiltered from the mouth of, say, a demagogic presidential candidate and land in front of my eyeballs on a cable news channel.
But it is beyond doubt that his commitment to democracy is now as flimsy as any relativist's: free elections may be good enough for the people of Britain, but the Kazakhs cannot expect to enjoy the same privileges.
Lyon's second confirmed Juninho's return to form: another long-range free-kick, another flimsy wall, and another goal.
A web of bilateral trade deals offers far less global liberalisation than multilateralism, but it may reduce the political impetus to push for the tougher global trade agreements.To many outsiders, America's overall commitment to free trade seems equally flimsy.
After Woodstock gave up on collecting tickets — abandoning flimsy fences and declaring itself a free festival — it grew to what was variously estimated as 300,000 or 400,000 people, more than double the attendance of previous rock festivals.
Patients were forced to wait, or "board," on those flimsy narrow stretchers until a bed became free at the "Inn," as the E.R. staff referred to the rest of hospital.
Even using false or flimsy documents is often, in effect, risk-free.
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act meant that free blacks could be seized for the flimsiest reason.
Only the most naïve individual or an individual who is totally invested in the ideology of free markets at the expense of humanity would be satisfied with his flimsy excuses.
