Is a lifetime spent loving poems in a fallen world only a poor joke?
Only a poor choice of pumping house music threatens to sully riverside reveries.
"I'm only a poor lawyer," Mr. Thompson said, "and I'm only telling you what they tell me".
As Ventura explains, France is only a poor country, without the financial might to top the American offer.
Educational qualifications may be relatively easy to measure, but offer only a poor proxy for human capital.
Only a poor settler, Wash Jones, is allowed to speak in his natural "yokel voice" and for him Faulkner reserves a special role.
Classics such as 'Lost in the Andes,' 'Only a Poor Man' and 'A Christmas for Shacktown' left a deep impression on me.
"The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature," written by Rand in the years after "Atlas Shrugged" and trounced by critics, shows her to be not only a poor reader but also poorly read.
Just as good is Geoff Bell's Tommy Hatcher – the scene where he beats Pete to death, singing "He's only a poor little Hammer", is horrifying, and not simply because of the unpleasantness of the act.
So Vaclav Havel, in grateful remembrance of the days when he was not yet president of the Czech Republic but only a poor dissident hunched over a shortwave receiver, invited the Radios (as RFE/RL is sometimes called) to Prague.
Fred Thompson was speedily eliminated for being only a poor man's Ronald Reagan Mike Huckabeee stunned in Iowa, but has proved unable to spread his appeal beyond evangelical Christians and looks doomed too.
