flimsiness

Example Sentences

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Don’t get me wrong – her co-stars are the bonding agents strengthening this whimsical flimsiness.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

The state’s “refusal to withdraw the meritless assertions, the flimsiness of its request for extraordinary relief, and its use of the Maui tragedy, support a finding of frivolousness and bad faith,” the ruling said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Diaz’s second novel is a layer-cake of storytelling, connecting four distinctive narrative styles to expose a supposedly brilliant businessman and critique the flimsiness of great-man mythologies.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Apart from its flimsiness on legal grounds, the ruling doesn’t provide clear guidance to law-enforcement and intelligence officials who are involved in the case.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2022

He scored a line with a mighty claw along a strut less damaged than most, and feeling a flimsiness in the quality of the metal, turned away at once and scanned the mountain wall again.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman