Vegas doesn't disappoint, but words are meagre, insipid things to describe this madness.
It is, despite its seemingly meagre parts, a thing of startling beauty.
Hanwell stood up and began pottering around the room like a woman, straightening the meagre curtains, tidying away little things into drawers.
It's hard to remember now, but there was a world before Pret, and an unspeakably dreary world it was too, a world in which the sandwiches that fuelled the desk-bound luncher were dead, dry things with a meagre smear of some unidentifiable paste to add flavour.
It seems a meagre and unofficial and even dangerous thing from which to craft an entire alternative to a global system, but so did money and credit in the age of Edward III.
But one day – almost wordlessly, apparently, she packed up all her things into a few meagre suitcases and left.
Last summer, he criticized Jay Z and Beyonce for their meagre social-justice efforts and sparked, among other things, a cross-generational Twitter fight within black America.
Eleanor, the narrator's dead mother, was a nervous, disappointed woman from South Africa "who would have wanted to stick around, if only for the meagre satisfaction of being right, of confirming that things had turned out as dismally as she'd expected".
Such things have become important baggage, to be sent straight to the cooler and carefully preserved there for the meagre days ahead, and as a matter of fact, several of the passengers I saw lugging their beribboned baskets along the ship's corridors turned out to have sent them to themselves.
The argument implies Britain doesn't have the capacity to sustain any more people, so every immigrant who arrives makes things worse for everyone by stretching our meagre resources further.
