But the novel's message shades into a very different, somewhat flimsier idea -- that we love only where mystery lies.
Barash dismisses, on flimsy grounds, the idea that it is the florid advertisements of chimps that need explaining, and not our lack of them.
But the bank record-keeping was flimsy, and the idea of a private House bank played into the notion of cronyism — a perception that Newt Gingrich, then the House Republican whip, was trying to fuel as he plotted a Republican overthrow of the Democratic-controlled House. Democratic-controlled House
But a Texas private remained confident even in 1864 that Confederate victory would prevent this from happening, because "we are fighting for matters real and tangible … our property and our homes … they for matters abstract and intangible … for the flimsy and abstract idea that a negro is equal to an Anglo American".
Mr. Morton's character is described in the play as "a flimsy ghost of an idea" who is "groomed to only go so far".
Some of his ideas are flimsy but he's not a politico – he's just a man who's thought long and hard about making the world a better place.
That's why the flimsy working out of the idea and the plot is depressing.
That reader also suggested that the angled holes in the fragmentation casing had been copied by engineers who did not know their purpose — an idea that seemed flimsy to the group of specialists that has been helping At War.
I'm going to go out there on a limb and say that if your idea is so flimsy that someone can hear it once and go execute on it as well as you could have, it probably wasn't much chop to begin with.
They bought into the idea, which grew flimsier each year, that following a rock band from football stadium to football stadium, fairground to fairground, constituted adventure of the Kerouac kind.
