Sentence examples for somewhat feebler from inspiring English sources

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Cameron talks about "a spotlight" shone on local abuses, rather like the disinfecting sunlight he used to promise in soon-to-be deleted speeches, only inevitably somewhat feebler.

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A quick string of somewhat feeble compliments should do it.

Better stuff from Federer, meanwhile, coming into the net and smashing a somewhat feeble lob attempt.

The McKay Commission proposes a fourth answer which, however, is somewhat feeble.

She is commendably outspoken, for example, on Iran's nuclear programme and its threats against Israel (though also somewhat feeble in her attitude towards Vladimir Putin's increasingly pushy Russia).

His court appearances after his ouster — in which he lay on a stretcher, wearing pajamas and sunglasses — and frequent reports of his ill health have reinforced his image as a detached, somewhat feeble leader.

Based on Carson McCullers's 1941 short novel about homosexuality, self-mutilation, and fetishism on an army base in the South, Taylor's Leonora Penderton is a sexually avaricious and somewhat "feeble-minded" wife to Captain Penderton (Marlon Brando), a repressed gay army officer who not only refuses to sleep with her but despises those aspects of her body that remain a convict's dream.

But paradoxically, he also confirmed that Labour would not force a vote: it would wave the regulations through, with the proviso that a future Labour government will scrap them if things go wrong in future, and a somewhat feeble parting shot at children's minister Edward Timpson that it would be all his fault if it did go pear-shaped.

I even considered, by way of a somewhat feeble tribute, submitting a blank page - a sheet of brilliant white that would perfectly encapsulate my inarticulate reverence (Johnson, I should explain, once used pages shaded from grey to black to communicate the experience of a character's heart attack, a device he adapted from his beloved Tristram Shandy).

The Idaho Democrat was the sole non-Republican to earn the group's backing (a somewhat feeble way to prove that the movement was bipartisan in nature) and his office reluctantly accepted -- though 'declined-to-reject' may be the more operative description.

First, the methods are based on procedures proper to analysing latent variables [ 51], rather than the somewhat feeble data reduction methods such as PCA.

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