Sentence examples for paltry representation from inspiring English sources
On Monday, Abbott defended the paltry representation of women when his cabinet was first announced.
The paltry representation of women is a slight step forward; "up until virtually the 1990s," Barral writes, "male Caucasians were used exclusively to represent anatomical bodies, with female bodies appearing only in fragments to represent their sexual organs".
George Harrison, by then a prolific songwriter, was disgruntled about his paltry representation on the Beatles' albums, which were always dominated by the music of Lennon and Paul McCartney.
This year several of those "Frieze Projects" have an element of performance, among them Annika Ström's "Ten Embarrassed Men," a group of 10 performers walking around the fair, being embarrassed, in the artist's conception, by the paltry representation of women in art fairs.
Few today would defend our paltry level of women's representation — 18% in Congress and 27% in California — as right or fair or just.
A paltry fifteen minutes.
Foreclosure relief is paltry.
