Sentence examples for flimsy stuff from inspiring English sources

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But it is pretty flimsy stuff.

(And the insubstantial signs of Aimée's mother are the flimsy stuff of ghost stories).

And when a desire is strong enough it can overwhelm such flimsy stuff as facts and truth.

"Ice Bound," which has its premiere on CBS on Sunday night, is worthy, sensible drama, but it would be flimsy stuff without her.

But Murphy's big notion that Victoria, "a canny politician", triumphed over her attackers by manipulating popular sympathies, revived admiration of the royal family and thereby created "the stable, modern monarchy that endures to this day" is flimsy stuff.

There is a strange deadness in the film, together with a callow self-importance and self-pity which become more stultifying with every minute that passes, factors which are actually made worse by the obvious competence of everyone concerned: so much technical élan is being expended on this narcissistic and flimsy stuff.

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Fluffy, flimsy swaths of the stuff are draped with meticulous care on fishing lines that stretch from wall to wall, just above eye level; the ensemble is called "Lintels".

Fluffy, flimsy swaths of the stuff are draped with meticulous care on fishing lines that stretch from wall to wall, just above eye level; the ensemble is called "Lintels". Orozco says that he collected the lint from a year's worth of his own laundry, augmented with contributions from friends and a laundromat.

The virtues of this peculiar arrangement are obvious: Americans are able to buy far more stuff with their flimsy currency than one would expect.

She called it No Wire Hangers, a nod to her film career and her environmentally friendly views on stuff (including those flimsy dry-cleaner disposables).

"The nature of stuff is so flimsy, so of course things are going to get torn down and built up," he said.

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