Woods's alleged cavorting with Vegas waitresses and celebrity groupies, his woeful "sexts" and voice mails, his driving his S.U.V. into a tree: all these things make him look weak and discombobulated.
Meanwhile Reg Wilson, who had committed a vile, sadistic murder and been diagnosed as a psychopath, said he believed hope was only for the weak.
While he was well enough the couple went sailing together, and when he was too weak for that he painted obsessively, on cardboard and brown parcel paper, an old bait box, and pieces of china.
"Part of the activism around women's rights is: 'Let's prove that women are as good as men.' But the other side is you should look at the fact that men can be weak and vulnerable".
Eventually he emerged, weak from his ordeal and his diet of only two bananas per day during his captivity.
Platinum refiner Johnson Matthey dropped 102p to £23.06 as third quarter profits fell 19% to £84.3m, hit by lower sales of catalytic converters for car exhaust systems in Europe and weak demand in Japan.
Two minutes from the break Alan Mannus saved a weak penalty from the Kilmarnock midfielder Shiels after the Saints left-back Callum Davidson was adjudged by the referee Craig Charleston to have pulled down Gary Harkins in the box.
Putin spoke a lot on Thursday about sanctions and the weak rouble acting as a stimulus for local businesses; that Russian products would now become more competitive.
In fact, active government, as well as being essential for economic success, is the only way of protecting the weak and redressing the balance of power between rich and poor.
Draghi said at the IMF's meetings in Washington over the weekend that financial buffers were sufficient to prevent contagion spreading to other weak economies in the currency union.
"They were very weak and had had no training".
