Sarkozy would do well to adopt an approach to fatherhood based on the fundamentals of political survival: incessantly trumpeting the narrowest achievements and the flimsiest knowledge.
The medical task is to provide a flimsy shield of knowledge against the primordial howl.
A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed Johnson for "The New Yorker Radio Hour," and he proved himself to be jovial and plainspoken, but also distinctly shallow — and, after a while, tetchy about his own flimsy policy prescriptions and knowledge base.
While I've travelled business class before, I've never flown without the nagging knowledge that only a flimsy curtain separates you and your champagne from the huddled masses.
While the film has been rightfully challenged for its flimsy feminist principles ― Elle's knowledge of hair treatments, instead of legal precedents, for example, is what secures her the big win ― how "Legally Blonde" engages with its gay characters deserves more examination.
Instead, the commission claimed that, to the best of its knowledge (a knowledge based on flimsy research and self-serving logic), baseball had been invented by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.
His firsthand "authoritative" knowledge on the subject is flimsy AT BEST.
It required heavy lifting while balancing on flimsy platforms three stories high, exposed to the elements but not to the knowledge that the work flouted safety rules and construction blueprints.
Furthermore, a foundation of knowledge and justified belief restricted to infallible beliefs (as defined above) would arguably be far too flimsy to support any sort of substantial epistemic edifice.
