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The Chobot-Collier team never speaks to the authorities, or any police at all, save for the handlers of a cadaver dog used in a search for Theresa’s body, an effort launched on the flimsiest lead.

Still, it’s Delbis’ Don, with his halting speech and flimsy grasp of the stakes, who really breaks your heart.

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Romance is a bruising, brutal—and even nausea-inducing—business in “Let’s Love!,” a flimsy and forgettable evening of three ostensibly comic short plays by Ethan Coen at the Atlantic Theater Company.

If existing rules against putting to sea in flimsy, unlicensed and overcrowded boats were enforced, he thinks many lives would be saved.

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I crouch on the floor and ruthlessly Google image search nearly every piece, sweating profusely under the flimsy output of a nearby fan and the confused gaze of the guy behind the counter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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