Sentence examples for meagreness from inspiring English sources

Even in agriculture, where the EU has come under attack for the meagreness of its offer to improve market access for farm products, it is by no means the only offender (see article).

He discovers in the light and majesty of the divine his own poverty and nothingness and is thus torn between the contemplation of the greatness of God and his own meagreness.

The meagreness of its natural resources partially explains Italy's slow transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, which began only in the late 19th century.

His mood is surprisingly light, genially bantering with the audience over things like the meagreness of a proferred reefer ("You can pick your teeth with a New York joint") and stage invaders ("Well, that's New York for you – the only people that rush the stage are guys!").

(We excuse it by pointing to the millions of dollars they make, but this doesn't absolve us of our moral meagreness).

I even began to mutter that the real secret that Rex Stout had been screening by his false scents and interminable divagations was a meagreness of imagination of which one only came to realize the full horror when the last chapter had left one blank.

We see Soviet food change from decade to decade: the relative abundance of the thirties, with "fish suspended in glistening aspic and canapes with frilly mayonnaise borders," couldn't be more different from the meagreness of the sixties, with rationed bread "oozing weird greenish gunk: the flour had been stretched out with dried peas".

It's hard, then, to imagine what the playwright James Lapine thought he was up to with "Fran's Bed," which he also directed (at Playwrights Horizons), given the enormity of his subject and the meagreness of his literary talent.

Above them is von Donnersmarck, shifting his fretful players around the city — his horribly convincing re-creation of a repressive world, ranging from the meagreness of Wiesler's lonely dinner (a tube of something red, squeezed onto a bowl of something white) to the unchanging nylon gray of his clothes.

No such meagreness attended "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), which permitted Wes Anderson to pour forth his devotion to Bowie.

This is a tall order, given the relative meagreness of canonical Surrealist art.