Sentence examples for poor specimen from inspiring English sources

All in all, he says, he's a pretty poor specimen of a man.

Sadly, this discovery of my beloved new genre was made in the dire midst of a poor specimen, Cowboys & Aliens, which lacks the "Versus" but broadly fits the mould.

In the play, as in real life, Darwin is moved to publish by Alfred Russel Wallace, a young man whom Parnell's Darwin dismisses as "a nobody, a collector, a poor specimen hunter," but who has independently come up with a theory just like the one Darwin has been chewing on for decades.

However, the technique remains vulnerable to poor specimen quality and sampling error.

For its critics now, it is seen as Hirschi (1993) describes it: a poor specimen of research and thinking consistent with requirements of government bureaucrats.

So much for the dead & now for the living. there is a poor specimen of a bird, which to my unornithological eyes, appears to be a happy mixture of a lark pidgeon & snipe….

When the loggers swept through, these scientists say, only poor specimens were left to reproduce.

Yellow tape binds this year's grafted shoots, and poor specimens have been replaced by young trees such as King Byerd, Tregonna King and Scotch Bridget – all protected from deer by tall guards and already covered in large pink flowers.

As cattle, the are likely to be poor specimens - and diseased, as wel but this does not matter to the Masai, who use them as currency, even for buying a bride, and it is the numbe, not the condition of the animals that counts.

With the exception of the wonderful title characters in "Mason & Dixon," who emerged as deeply felt, genuine human beings, Mr. Pynchon's people have always verged on the cartoonish, but those in "Bleeding Edge" are especially poor specimens, neither resonant nor satiric in any memorable way.

The tale tells of four horsemen, representing war, plague, death and famine – and here they are thunderously driving across from left to right, over the poor specimens of common humanity who are being crushed beneath the hooves of the wildly stampeding horses.