Sentence examples for flimsy life from inspiring English sources

Readers of books like James Bradley's "Flyboys," Doug Stanton's "In Harm's Way" and Hampton Sides's "Ghost Soldiers" will recognize many of Zamperini's tribulations, from the harrowing episodes of air combat over the Pacific to the long weeks battling sharks and hunger on a flimsy life raft to the mind-boggling brutalities of incarceration in a Japanese POW camp.

I had worn ankle-high water mocs — the kind mothers make their children wear when swimming at rocky beaches — a bathing suit and a flimsy life preserver I had picked up in the bargain bin at Hipermás, the Costa Rican equivalent of Wal-Mart.

He's a relentless builder of empires, however flimsy, whose life appears to have been genuinely influenced by the countercultural currents of the 1960s.

Given our flimsy social life, we hated to turn it down.

Like his previous film The Village, Lady in the Water is stuck with a laborious homemade mythology with no convincing inner life: a flimsy fantasy system that the director seems to be making up as he goes along.

Up to that nearly terminal point, the movie offered little but prefabricated feelings, but the young man's confessional self-flaying bursts through the soft soap with an intensity and a sincerity that wrench it from the story's flimsy fabric and into life, like a cri de coeur from Berkeley himself.

This thoughtful study of military wives living near Fort Drum, N.Y., explores a range of issues from the merely depressing (flimsy housing) to the life-threatening (high rates of domestic abuse).

"I wasn't what most people would think of when they imagine a refugee – I'm white, I speak English, I'm well-educated, I arrived on an aeroplane, I didn't have to risk my life in a flimsy boat.

Life caught on a flimsy wing.

But in "The Human Stain" many an interior monologue serves only to demystify the character, whose mental life is exposed as flimsy, and transparently contrived.

It is commercial logic to offer readers and advertisers a substantial weekly compendium of local life rather than a flimsy daily offering... Quality and relevance must be paramount.