They spring into terrified action, trying to make some kind of brilliant artwork out of the meager materials at hand before she arrives.
Visibly struggling with his alcoholism, and working with budgets that would barely have covered a day's shooting on one of his 1920s features, Keaton still managed to snatch a few moments of poetry from the meager materials he was given to work with.
Perhaps it was because the meager Lycra material with an abstract pattern of blue and gray squares was so streamlined it seemed wallpapered to her body, clinging like a bathing suit.
Despite the hazards of attempting to extrapolate from this meager and highly colored material, it constitutes much the best evidence we have for the character of Pyrrho's thought.
The everyday citizens of South Sudan live hand-to-mouth, planting crops when the rains come; looking after their herds of cows, goats, and sheep; building their homes from natural materials; and spending their meager disposable income on the odd plastic chair, T-shirt, or phone card.
Other factors add to the difficulties: the ease with which material can slip through customs, the meager numbers of police assigned to art theft, and the circuitous trails of ownership in the world of trading.
In general, a Cochrane systematic review determined that the distribution of printed educational materials, including clinical guidelines, generally produced meager benefits in the health care process [ 24].
In the second place, the requirement of burying nuclear waste for the tens of thousands of years it takes for its radioactive materials to decline to levels deemed safe mocked the meager ingenuity and constancy of a species whose entire recorded history amounts only to some 6,000 years.
Head engineered new ski materials, he said, because he was embarrassed by his own meager skiing abilities.
Despite their meager wages, garment workers often were required to supply their own basic materials, including needles, thread, and sewing machines.
