Sentence examples for flimsy thread from inspiring English sources
Instead, he strings the solitude of each figure together on a flimsy thread, with the pattern broken only here and there by some ultimate spark of vitality.
That claim hangs on the extremely flimsy thread that New York — where insurance and living costs are higher than in many other parts of the country — has proposed extending the eligibility level to 400percentt of poverty, or $82,600 for a family of four.
And, brought together by such flimsy threads of fate, she and Mr. Jenkins fell in love.
After the game had been abandoned, leaving their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals hanging by an even flimsier thread, the acting captain, George Bailey, said: "It has been dealt with.
The now ardent youth would jump back in horror if he were shown his own portrait in old age. Louis C.K.'s comic universe is populated by many such warped loners: characters who cling to their positions in the world by the flimsiest of threads and whose morality tales seem designed specially to horrify the ardent youth in all of us.
This made-over Madewell is connected by but the flimsiest of threads to its defunct namesake; indeed, as several forays to its new flagship on the Ladies Milee attest, the company is now producing clothes not for the working class, but for the class of young women who attend expensive private colleges and are taking a gap year to, you know, figure out what they want to do with their lives.
One flimsy tread gave way.
But the thread tying the transmission of this story from the monastic world of the fourteenth century to contemporary readers is flimsy at best.
