The essential problem confronted by consequentialists participating in the torture debate is that their theoretically admissible moral barriers to torture are relatively flimsy; too flimsy, it seems, to accommodate the strong moral intuitions in play.
First, the Compresstome construction is relatively flimsy and it has a much less sleek appearance than the Vibratome.
Any sense of gay life as normal life was relatively new and still flimsy.
Their useful life is relatively short, comparable to the useful life of a flimsy house in a hurricane zone.
The one in "Virgo" is relatively high-end because he held a job as a newspaper editor in Oregon, despite "one flimsy charge of harassment stemming from an honest misunderstanding involving the women's restroom".
Don't be fooled by their relatively flimsy appearance, they will close on anything getting into the train too late - water bottle, backpack, hand, leg, small child, you name it - and will hold that thing in a vice-like grip until the conductor presses the button to open them.
On the other hand, that heft comes across as Teutonic solidity, almost as if the car were carved from a chunk of metal -- a distinct departure from Sir Alec's relatively flimsy original.
Not the sandbags that were too flimsy to protect him.
Most were flimsy affairs, built by mischievous-looking children.
Martinez felt those numbers were flimsy.
