Sentence examples for was rather feeble from inspiring English sources

It had some spectacular location photography (by Ted Scaife) of Mount Kenya and the flora and fauna of Africa, though the tug-of-love plot involving William Holden, Capucine, a young girl, and Zamba in the title role, was rather feeble.

Although we'd always seen ourselves as rational creatures — this was our Promethean gift — it turns out that human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and lazy biases.

But hemagglutinin turns out to be rather feeble.

However, despite extensive research this process has low yields and is rather feeble.

As a new backbencher five years ago he campaigned assiduously for a recall bill – allowing constituents to force a byelection – that was rather stronger than the feeble one MPs finally approved.

When you last saw me — at school, I mean — I suppose I was a rather feeble specimen.

It has generally caused little trouble this century because the main agent of transmission was a rather feeble insect, the blue-green sharpshooter, which cannot fly farther than three feet at a time.That changed with the arrival of its more robust, glassy-winged cousin, which lays eggs twice a year and can fly up to a quarter of a mile.

"My only response is a rather feeble one, but it is the truth.

It is a rather feeble liberal-humanist note to end on, but there is fascination in this story of an idealist, torn in two by history.

"Baba Nura's vacationers have left, and she's gotten rather feeble in the past year.

For over the course of history science's resistance to ideological intervention and manipulation has been largely rather feeble.