Sentence examples for lame of from inspiring English sources

How lame of David Cameron to label Ed Balls "the most annoying person in British politics" at PMQs.

And Chapter 6, a portrayal of Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, explores the anchoress's role as religious instructor of the faithful.

It was lame of critics on Capitol Hill to carp that the Obamas could have taken in a play in D.C.

One series depicted deformed feet: those of Lord Byron (who had a clubfoot), of a family friend named Boots (who was lame), of Oedipus (whose name means "swollen foot").

Charles's claim to Brittany through his marriage to Joan the Lame of Penthièvre, niece of Duke John III of Brittany, led to a conflict with the other claimants, John of Montfort and later his son Duke John IV of Brittany, in the 20-year War of the Breton Succession, which also involved the kings of England and France.

You genuinely believe that the perennially halt and lame of the midfield will be up and cantering about mixing crunching tackles with incisive passing, that the new signings will gel until they are jamming, the wingers will cross, the strikers will score, the goalkeeper will never come out and flap at a centre like a nervous school secretary shooing away a recalcitrant tramp.

Digested read, digested: The laming of the shrew.

"He is the lamest of ducks," Mr. Golden said.

Mr Obama's first-term record suggests that, if re-elected, he could be the lamest of ducks.

Never mind that Schwarzenegger was the lamest of Donald Ducks or now just another familiar piece of political furniture.

The producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Flashdance," "Top Gun," "Armageddon") and the director, David McNally, traffick in the lamest of soft core.