Sentence examples for is rather feeble from inspiring English sources

Although we'd always seen ourselves as rational creatures — this was our Promethean gift — it turns out that human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and lazy biases.

However, despite extensive research this process has low yields and is rather feeble.

It had some spectacular location photography (by Ted Scaife) of Mount Kenya and the flora and fauna of Africa, though the tug-of-love plot involving William Holden, Capucine, a young girl, and Zamba in the title role, was rather feeble.

But hemagglutinin turns out to be rather feeble.

"My only response is a rather feeble one, but it is the truth.

It is a rather feeble liberal-humanist note to end on, but there is fascination in this story of an idealist, torn in two by history.

And, with most countries in Thailand's vicinity — including China, Myanmar and Vietnam — following one-party, authoritarian alternatives, the democratic way of doing things is looking rather feeble and unstable in Asia.

As a new backbencher five years ago he campaigned assiduously for a recall bill – allowing constituents to force a byelection – that was rather stronger than the feeble one MPs finally approved.

"Baba Nura's vacationers have left, and she's gotten rather feeble in the past year.

When you last saw me — at school, I mean — I suppose I was a rather feeble specimen.

For over the course of history science's resistance to ideological intervention and manipulation has been largely rather feeble.