Sentence examples for lousy up from inspiring English sources

Speaking about her discomfort with live performances, Stafford told a 1996 interview with The New Yorkers Nancy Franklin, "I'm basically a singer, period, and I think I'm really lousy up in front of an audienceit's just not me".

Instead, a firm obsessively trying to make its numbers is seen as suspicious, trying to cover up lousy management, perhaps, or maybe worse.So why not come clean?

Students who have fared worst since the test came in three years ago have been those from the swathe of north India where Hindi is spoken as a first language, as well as, more generally, those from rural backgrounds, where students from lousy schools end up choosing humanities for higher studies over crunchier disciplines.

Unlike most movie chains which serve up lousy microwaved meals that destroy your stomach long after the end credits rolled, Alamo serves up a baked-to-order stocked menu that Chef Lupe Gutierrez prepares with his kitchen staff.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is who made all the lousy decisions leading up to the banking disaster of 2008, and how the government was out to lunch during the entire bailout, and all that Neil Barofsky kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into the blame game, if you want to know the truth".

Much-deregulated investment banks packaged those lousy loans up into investments that the nation's ratings agencies promptly declared to be of the first quality.

With hindsight, I realise my timing was lousy: in the ups and downs of a relationship, we weren't ready.

I should mention that I don't really read fantasy novels anymore the books are long, the characters often don't have a lot of psychological depth, and the writing can be straight-up lousy.

I should mention that I don't really read fantasy novels any more – the books are long, the characters often don't have a lot of psychological depth, and the writing can be straight-up lousy.

"For years, he had set me up with lousy dates," Mr. Slater recalled.

He's the plutocrat with a plan, and if you don't like it, go on down to Human Resources and pick up your lousy severance.