The bond markets took fright, pushing up the risk premiums on Greek borrowing to exorbitant levels and triggering a spiral of panic and brinkmanship that engulfed Ireland and Portugal and exposed the flimsy foundations of the common currency.
The sudden and unexpected failure of the body is a shocking catastrophe that threatens the flimsy edifice we call the "self", with a corresponding strain on intimacy.
But when Miliband challenged him on the fairly flimsy nature of the assurances given by Pfizer, and about the prospect of job cuts and the company being broken up if the takeover goes ahead, Cameron was forced onto the defensive.
Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
Flimsy rows of concrete arches hang above swaths of blue mirror glass, punctuated by stick-on timber trellis screens.
Hodgson has not had a terrible sporting year and ends it having swapped Hull KR for Canberra Raiders but it will be remembered for the moment after England went out of the Four Nations, when a night out ended, in the early hours of the morning, with Hodgson launching himself at the flimsy door of a student flat in Dunedin, flying straight through it and leaving a Hodgson-shaped hole behind.
Seyfried gives presence to a role that could have been flimsy.
However there is another benefit to well-conducted research, which is that many drugs initiatives are based on flimsy evidence.
Further on, the pavements are packed with shacks built with plywood or sometimes bricks, divided into warrens by pieces of cloth and flimsy partitions.
Even for those familiar with São Paulo's favelas, the first sight of the flimsy, dilapidated shacks in the Favela do Moinho comes as a shock.
Even the flimsy pretext of concern for children rings resoundingly hollow: despite the odious insinuations of conservative groups, homosexuality itself is not psychologically unhealthy.
