But the line turns out to be rather puny — as if drawn with a hard-leaded pencil when a large-tipped felt marker would better serve readers.
Set against this package, Punjab's efforts to conserve its groundwater, mainly by telling farmers not to transplant paddy before the monsoon rains, are rather puny.State governments know that this is madness.
They are accepting yields that are rather puny under the circumstances.
It's a wise idea to level up the Pokémon just a little; level one Pokémon are rather puny.
Before moving on to other topics, I came to suspect that Gawker Media's revenues were rather punier than many people thought and than Denton had intimated.
By defense standards the contract, to be decided in December, is rather puny 23 aircraft with an expected price tag of $1.6 billion, compared with the $5 billion tab the Air Force will rack up next year for the same number of F-22 fighter jets.
Miss Lewinsky's book advance, $600,000, is thought rather puny, but then Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor, has already printed all the best bits.
The show opens with him surrounded by lookalike puppets, an experience he says was "rather like being God staring down at his puny creations".
The romance of radio waves, magnetic recording tape and gramophones is strong, and the digital age seems rather puny and unexciting when set alongside these progressive, physical, scientific advances.
A national unit within the NCA will henceforth deal with cybercrime, particularly the big, complicated cases.Still, the new agency is a peculiar creature, both far-reaching and rather puny.
Again, it's a whole new feeling of scale and immersion – you get a sense of yourself as a rather puny physical presence in the world rather than a demigod-like figure.
