A new entry on Thursday, "Prime Suspect," has been more highly regarded and is still on the air, but last week averaged a puny 1.2 rating (about 1.5 million viewers in the 18-49 group).
It should be noted, however, that this happens to shows with puny ratings about as often as cement shoes prove to be flotation devices.
We know about Pennington's puny arm strength, about what he can't do compared with vintage Favre or even late-model Favre.
Emmerich, who previously directed "Godzilla" and "Independence Day" (in which aliens blow up the Empire State Building and pretty much everything else), is accustomed to issuing commands like "Cue the taxicabs to be flung about like puny toys" and "Humans, assume expressions of awe at forces beyond your comprehension".
The puny planet is about as little as one found in 1993 circling a pulsar that also has three planets.
These were the large, indistinct forces, far beneath the Cyclopean notice of which the puny likes of me scuttled about, getting along — often absurdly.
What is it about this woman that resonates beyond the relatively puny numbers of "Chelsea Lately" (about 900,000 viewers a night) and the confines of concert venues (the Mohegan Sun casino) that are not always best in class?
As heroes, these figures aren't all that heroic — Winston Smith is a mid-ranking employee of the Ministry of Truth, in Orwell's "1984"; Bernard Marx, in Huxley's "Brave New World," is self-conscious about his puny body — and purposefully so.
For while today's generation of pensioners may be angry about the puny size of their basic state pension, it is positively generous compared with what tomorrow's generation will receive.In this section Getting noticed On the up Wait for it Wild wild East Playing the race card A friend turned foe What am I bid?
Even Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, complained as recently as last December about the puny dividends being paid in China.
