How To Use Poorly In A Sentence

Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
These have damaged an already poorly performing economy. The Sun
With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
And so it is quite disappointing that this volume was very poorly edited.

When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
But dropsy was still poorly understood until Bright, who put it all together with diseased kidneys and albuminuria and distinguished dropsies of renal origin from other etiologies.
One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
The foundation, which helps make the dreams of poorly boys and girls come true, arranged for Chloe to meet some dolphins at an aquarium in Benidorm.
Trophic means concerned with nutrition, and oligotrophic lakes are poorly fed; that is, they have a low concentration of nutrient elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus.
The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
That's why my parents don't suspect I'm doing drugs since they think that all druggies get bad grades and do poorly in school.
Can rock ever again generate the poorly-constructed yet subversive caterwaul for which I once fell in love with it?
Some of the dogs are poorly fed or underfed, perhaps because after spending a lot of money to buy them, their owners do not want to spend any more to get them proper food.
These include clavate ribbons with a rounded upper end and a somewhat pointed lower end, but devoid of any rhizoidal holdfast structures; such ribbons may be poorly preserved Baculiphyca taeniata.
The continent's rich linguistic diversity has been poorly explored, developed, and sanctioned.
I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
By mid-century, the Marxist sociologist C. Wright Mills could write persuasively…of American office and store workers as a new proletariat, no less regimented, poorly paid, and declassed than manual workers of the previous century.
Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
An industry that is faring poorly in relation to other parts of domestic manufacturing may still be performing better than competitors in other countries. Competing in a Global Economy
In older homes, paint regularly contains large amounts of lead that can peel off the walls in flakes and chips or fall on floors and windowsills as a toxic dust, especially in poorly maintained housing stock.
Beware: all suffer their fair share of juddery, poorly pixelated footage. Times, Sunday Times
The prostate can be affected by a variety of infectious and poorly defined non-infectious conditions that present as acute or chronic pelvic pain with a range of accompanying urinary and systemic symptoms.
A research team led by Andre Levchenko of the Whiting School of Engineering has shed light on a previously poorly understood method of cell-cell communication called intercellular transfer of cellular components (ICT). News-Letter
The Cardiff boss was too poorly to make the reunion with his former club. The Sun
The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
One little-remarked fact about the 1982-2000 stock market climb is that housing values did relatively poorly over that period, so that in many locations the ratio of prices to rents fell below the rule of the 300. House Prices, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
All quotes, except those cited by link, consist entirely of hearsay, malefactions, and poorly-conjured misrepresentations.
Reserves are cesspools of corruption and all band councils are poorly managed and unaccountable.
He is collaborating with the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica to explore poorly understood endophytic fungi and uncultured soil microbes of Costa Rica.
There are plenty of grown-ups who could give a hoot about anything to do with the poorly-written, atrociously-acted mess that is Twilight. This week's cover: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's costars does he find the most difficult? His hair. | EW.com
In a decision that speaks well of his integrity but poorly of his abilities as a children's entertainer, screenwriter John Fusco decided that his equine characters communicate only through neighs and whinnies.
Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
One explanation for these differences is confounding by poorly measured or unmeasured risk factors that varied between communities.
Marcus was confused when he arrived in the hospital, poorly communicative (not his usual self).
The broad Bragg peak arises from a cholesterol monolayer embodying poorly ordered two-dimensional crystalline domains, each containing ~ 200 molecules in a proposed trigonal arrangement.
Walk across your floor in poorly maintained shoes with heeltaps, spike heels or with any sharp object protruding from your shoe.
Minibuses and jitneys, often unlicensed and poorly maintained, are particularly dangerous.
This section will be familiar to anyone who has followed recent events, so I have omitted it and also because it is the weakest and most poorly-written part of the paper, referring to Lu Hsiu-lien as a "hardliner" and using the Chinese code term "de-sinicization. Archive 2008-08-01
Many cameras were poorly positioned when first installed, while others are more than ten years old, it is claimed.
What may cost the taxpayer dearly is appointing a new group of politicians to eminent posts with poorly-defined functions.
In some schools, according to the Times, poorly performing students are encouraged to drop out.
This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
The country was so poorly off it had to close many of its embassies abroad.
Some of the dialogue is clunky and dated, perhaps, and some of the plots just plain don't work, but apart from some poorly reproduced art, these collections would be cheap at twice the price.
The square battlemented tower with its octagonal lantern above is poorly executed, but otherwise the uncommon conception arrests attention and is worthy of praise: The parvise chamber over the porch, like many others, was for a long period the town school. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail.
That's why we are doing away with the poorly planned, haphazard approach that let those detainees go in the past. Times, Sunday Times
The mechanism may be full of flaws and faults but these reflect poorly on those that staff the system, not the system itself. Times, Sunday Times
In damp, warm, poorly ventilated areas, surface mold often develops on wooden parts of buildings.
This could involve reaping the gains from some of your better performers or, alternatively, getting rid of some of the chaff that has performed consistently poorly. Times, Sunday Times
The mesoscale geometric and kinematic characteristics of transpressional structures formed in regions of obliquely convergent deformation are still rather poorly understood.
The ubiquitous pyramid is poorly used, cramping the main action in an unlit area upstage.
Thousands of people live in poorly maintained public housing or equally substandard private rental accommodation.
It might be worth taking into account that my training for this event has involved two months of heavy drinking and two weeks of being quite poorly.
George Lucas on the other hand ruined his own Star Wars myth, and his reputation as a director, if not a money maker, with poorly plotted, miscast prequels which played fast and loose with the fans' cherished memories.
Things were going poorly — Vietnamese guerrillas, or Vietminh, held the upper hand — and at a strategy session in Saigon the French commander, Gen. Henri Navarre, outlined his latest plan. The French Connection
Agincourt.] [Footnote IV. 16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, _] By their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.] King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural.
The room is no more and no less than she expected, down to the beer stein on the end table and the poorly framed print of the blond boy in lederhosen.
It is a poorly kept secret that the collective farms of Stalin kolkhoz were in many places resurrections of the communalized feudal estates that had existed prior to the liberation of the serfs under Tsar Aleksandr II in 1861. The Russian Soul, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As a non-specialist in both science and philosophy, I found Arthur Peacocke's treatment of time very helpful - he sees God's relation to time as dipolar - God transcends and gives existence to time, but also interacts with created time, and does not know the future, except through probabilities, as it does not yet exist I am paraphrasing - probably poorly - as I do not have the text here with me. God and Time
This will make it possible to transfer poorly patients in and out of bed with maximum safety and comfort
The genus is characterized by tetramerous flowers with bithecal anthers, lack of pseudostaminodia, a capitate or poorly defined stigma, and pollen of the Amaranthus type.
Their absence or replacement by poorly fitting dentures can contribute to malnutrition in the elderly. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
Second, there's not much impact on poverty if new jobs are casual, part-time and poorly paid.
Often mydriasis occurs with the pupils poorly reactive or non-reactive to light.
The nearby graves had been roughly weeded and the grass rather poorly mown, leaving an ankle-deep mulch of cuttings. GRACE
A poorly cleared ball fell just outside the box where the waiting Hasney Aljofree simply clattered it on the drop and it winged home.
Poorly protected from the Pacific Ocean, chill winds and dense fog-banks whistled and swirled sadly across the sand-dunes. CHAPTER XXI
Also, these medications often are poorly tolerated in elderly patients who have multiple comorbidities.
Since metastases of unknown origins are usually poorly differentiated the sensitivity of testing with these antibodies would also be reduced.
The work of Crowell, Dott and Winterer led to the introduction of purely descriptive terms for poorly sorted and laminated facies that avoided any preconceived notion of a glacial origin.
The children were poorly clad; one wrapped in a rag of some kind and his only other clothing a very dirty loin cloth.
If the bathroom is cold for most of the day, choose sansevierias (mother-in-law's tongue) - which will also survive in a poorly lit bathroom - or Nepenthes alata, a carnivorous plant with unusual hanging red traps.
Yet Weil thought so poorly of her achievements she once identified herself with the barren fig tree Jesus cursed because it bore no fruit.
Poor prognostic indicators include poorly responsive disease, delay in diagnosis and the presence of malignancy.
Such practitioners know that the complicated behavior we call multitasking is just doing many things poorly, and none of them well. Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life
Cowpea rhizobia, peanut rhizobia and mungbean rhizobia all belong to "Vigna" rhizobia phylogenetically. However the phylogeny of these rhizobia was poorly understood.
He's in a very poorly state, apparently, and the prospect of a good recovery doesn't look too hopeful.
We kept Todmorden down to a gettable score but we batted poorly, and recently we've just got worse.
He warned that not all poorly sorted rocks were true glacial tillites and thus were unreliable indicators of past climate and continental positioning.
You possess greater knowledge than I do; I am but a poorly educated layman eking out an existence.
VD speaks in intimidating, poorly-enunciated monosyllables and eventually helps a couple members of the original party make it to safety, though everyone else gets devoured by the light-hating bug aliens of DOOM. Tuesday hodge-podge post
Try later, and you may get lucky, but clearly this promotion is a poorly planned free for all. At Lunch Now: Taco Pandemonium | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
Obama's comments about blue collar, small town America (of which I'm a member), which were poorly expressed but easily interpreted by anyone with a brain stem, is that the working poor in this country have little to rely on but faith and guns when the government that is supposed to protect and serve them does neither. Huckabee: 'Lousy joke' but 'pretty benign issue'
Unfortunately it is poorly tolerated, and doubts have been raised about its effect on growth.
But the technology was too bulky, too expensive, and very poorly marketed.
The emphasis on cheesiness in Coeur de Lion and on the 'bad bad' in Minnis seem to me to be wanting to mobilise our ideas of the 'poorly written', the 'formalistic', the 'faux-edgy' as these things themselves are sort of the contraband property of poetry and literature in this time and place. David's comment
Some of the most poorly received episodes have been the ones that strayed into the supernatural.
Nicely produced (although rather poorly illustrated), it will be a useful sourcebook for the burgeoning field of food studies.
While the global models do a good job of simulating global trends in temperature, they often do poorly on fine-grained regional projections. Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change?
In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal.
But investor enthusiasm was predicated in part on expectations the changes would continue, especially since the world's fourth-largest country by population still ranks poorly in indexes measuring corruptio Reformer Resigns, Rattling Indonesia
Experience tells me, though, that learners certainly opt out of various media when they're poorly chosen (inappropriate for the learning), poorly implemented (talking down, lecturing, fatuous), or poorly administered (mindless administrivia, useless recordkeeping, or mandatory sheep-dip). Same old story
These tyres perform badly/poorly in hot weather.
It earned a word of praise from me, which pleased my companion, though the little town was poorly lit and somnolent. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Failure may motivate the bright and able child yet discourage and handicap the child who is already doing poorly.
Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This poorly regarded army produced some outstanding leaders and redoubtable soldiers, and several developments had long-term importance.
It was ill conceived and poorly planned, above all because the Allies had little knowledge of the terrain. Times, Sunday Times
The boundary between the sheeted dykes and pillow lavas is tectonic, and because of shearing, the pillow basalts are locally poorly preserved.
I do not accept that our well-behaved boys should be made to pay for a poorly behaved kid.
The role of these structures in determining spore hydrophobicity, adhesion, dispersal, and resistance to environment stresses is poorly understood.
How is it that when an organization that is supported by student funding has a speaker come there is a cost, but when a poorly funded club or group on campus invites a guest speaker to speak there usually isn't a fee?
The film was so poorly received that Lean abandoned directing for more than a decade. Times, Sunday Times
The KPU has also been performing poorly in conducting public campaigns about the elections.
Some recordings in the 80's were done very poorly and probably sounded cruddy on both formats.
The hours of work are Just poorly distributed. Times, Sunday Times
Today, some swine producers have totally abandoned the procedure or resect needle teeth only when sows are milking poorly or if exudative epidermitis is present in the herd.
By then I might even have crossed the 14 stone threshold that in my poorly thought out diet plan was going to be my mark for a return to drinking wine (beer coming back into play at 13 and a half stone).
We read those things as kids and we apreciated them AS KIDS but most of the stuff in comics is poorly written. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Fantastic Four review…
The endemic bryozoan genera tend to be more poorly sampled than the cosmopolitan genera.
In Libya and Somalia his troops fought savagely to reduce poorly armed tribesmen. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
However, despite playing rather poorly, they dug in and achieved an unlikely victory.
Neither should the gestures he makes, such as sending signed shirts to poorly fans who need a leg up from the England captain. The Sun
Interviewers, she says, are variously rude, poorly researched or plain stupid.
The onions bulb poorly in this cold wet season.
Jennifer thought about how poorly he was regarded at HVS as a rainmaker. INSIDERS
All this seems rather poorly timed. The Times Literary Supplement
Tragically poorly attended meetings, in point of fact. Times, Sunday Times
Most come from rural backgrounds and are poorly educated, handicaps for anyone who wants to get ahead in the modern urban-commercial civilisation.
I like to call this the Good Query Gone Bad: it contains all the basic elements (although not done very well); the querier has clearly given some thought to the market appeal of his book (but not presented the results very convincingly); the story itself sounds rather interesting (despite being poorly described). Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Querypalooza, part XIX: pulling all of those disparate elements together into a harmonious whole, or, may I see those principles in practice, please?
The movie is poorly acted.
I do think the article was offensive, inaccurate, poorly timed and unnecessary.
Neither should the gestures he makes, such as sending signed shirts to poorly fans who need a leg up from the England captain. The Sun
Aneuploid pollen grains compete poorly with euploid pollen and so aneuploidies are eliminated when propagated through the male.
He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
There were beautiful fragments, but the whole was cumbersome, heavy and poorly detailed. Times, Sunday Times
Because iron is so poorly absorbed, efforts have been made with certain iron tablets to mimic the body's iron absorption mechanism. Miracle Micronutrients
This thickness is so far poorly controlled but is markedly affected by the cleanness and hydrophilicity of the support surface.
We have seen several examples in the last two years of situations which were handled very poorly and of decisions which were hard to justify from a purely economic point of view. Quebec Update
Oh, and there was at least three cases were my boss made significant profits by overstocking (ordering three times his anticipated volume) and then basically auctioning off his overstock at the peak of the season to those who had ordered poorly. What I Learned at the Tower Records Going Out of Business Sale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Workers at the meatpacking plants are poorly paid and overworked.
Though all the authors have spoken with other writers heartsick at poorly illustrated books, she's never been disappointed.
However, the reason it is truly grim is because it is badly sung (often woefully out of tune), poorly produced, and mixed in a food blender.
Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths. Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
He pledged that his administration would defend the principle of states' rights, which augured poorly for civil rights enforcement.
I welcome the proposal to reduce taxes for the poorly paid.
Swelling of the jaw causes dentures to fit poorly or become uncomfortable
What you are saying is that the great mass of people are forced to settle for living under a system of tyrranical, arbitrary and unreviewable diktat — over the barely concealed near-tribal conflicts for supremacy — and in addition — that they must suffer under abusive, poorly run governments, as well? The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
Even the day when one juror was a little poorly and the trial was postponed, this fact got top billing on the news.
What a sad impression York makes here; traffic islands are poorly gardened, few are landscaped and all are covered in rank weeds and seedlings giving the appearance of set-aside fields.
Plants with light to moderate crown rot generally survive but often tiller poorly and have small leaves and heads on the main stem.
Since there were no seismographs operating in Alaska at that time and no reports of surface faulting in the remote Alaska Range, the location of the 1912 shock is poorly known.
Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections.
Far from improving Yeltsin's image, however, the war - secretively conceived and poorly planned - tarnished it further.
She was dressed poorly in a tattered knit sweater and a shapeless skirt.
The closest thing to a comparison is probably something like 1952: the economy was doing quite well that year, but the Korean War had become fairly unpopular, Democrats had been in power for a long time, and Republicans nominated an exceptional candidate in Eisenhower, leading Truman to decline a chance at another term and Adlai Stevenson to do poorly in his place. NYT > Home Page
Likewise, no evidence is incompatible with mythicism - as long as one is willing to posit an arbitrary mythmaker who invents things for no obvious reason, and who often expresses himself so poorly that one often gets the "wrong impression" that he is talking about a historical figure. Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
For since thy good works, not thy goods will follow thee; since riches are an appurtenance of life, and no dead man is rich, to famish in plenty, and live poorly to die rich, were Letter to a Friend
Although now back at home Milla said Otis is still unwell and reeling from the shock of being so poorly.
Critics, including the Zimbabwean Association of Tourism and Safari Operators, say that the group uses poorly trained hunting guides who, among other violations, sometimes endanger the lives of their clients and overhunt species in violation of the Zimbabwean government's hunting rules. Shoot to Kill
Fund managers are poorly placed to monitor firms.
In both men and women, common signs and symptoms of depression include feeling down in the dumps, sleeping poorly, and feeling sad, guilty and worthless.
You'll learn even more from the slapdash, poorly edited, and boring sites.
Those patches are lichen and it usually indicates heavy, poorly drained soil. The Sun
There is much chlorite growth, but quartz is only very poorly recrystallized.
Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly.
I think this throws up an abundance of deeply shallow, poorly constructed art that very quickly hits its sell-by date.
The embonate salt of pyrantel is poorly soluble in water, which offers the advantage of reduced absorption from the gut, allowing the drug to express its high nematocidal efficacy directly within the digestive tract.
The fundamental genetic and physiological causes of heterosis remain poorly understood in plants after nearly a century of exploitation in crop improvement.
Issues of counter-transference may arise, triggering poorly understood but powerful feelings.
Many of the fakes are poorly made and do not work properly, if at all, research has shown. Times, Sunday Times
The genetic and environmental elements that may be most important in the development of severe disease are poorly understood, but likely include both allergic and nonallergic elements.
The Virginia troops were underfed, underpaid, poorly clad, and overworked, so desertion was a wholesale problem. George Washington’s First War
The movie was poorly dubbed.
Specialized appliances find their sweet spot in the market as an abstraction layer for complex functionality that fits poorly in vanilla server hardware (think core routers) or by using the appliance as an interface to unique functionality that offers more than just first-order convenience (e.g. some database analytics appliances). Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
If the objectives are misplaced, the plan misconceived, the resources unavailable or poorly mobilized, then the strategy will fail and this will be the strategist's responsibility.
The stereotypical cutter is a girl in her young teens suffering from discord at home and doing poorly at school.
Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
While Mrs. Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin. The Woman in White
Leaf size is increased by greater cell ploidy, but the mechanism of this effect is poorly understood.
Neither should the gestures he makes, such as sending signed shirts to poorly fans who need a leg up from the England captain. The Sun
This point of view would be bolstered by the position that regional policy is not so much ineffective as poorly timed. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous. A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
Poorly marketed, and very expensive, it was originally only available as a mixable kit packaged in a too large cylinder.
First, fruitless-bearing male flies, unlike nonmutant male flies, actively court other males as well as females, although for reasons that remain poorly understood, they are unable actually to achieve intercourse with members of either sex. Homosexuality and Biology
Thankfully, I no longer go to this abhorrent nonsense replete with its jazz band and rock presentations and prebyters who suffer from systemic logorrhoea with three sermons per session and the uncontrollable urge to try to explain, even if poorly, everything they are doing. More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops
In fairness, the more mainstream swivel-eyed loons haven't touched this one, apart from Ashley Mote MEP noting that the EGF website talks of the EU constitution, thus a "clear admission" of what the Lisbon Treaty really is (because obviously it is more likely that the governments of 27 countries would collectively lie to their people than that a poorly-written website might be inaccurate). April Books 1) The Emperor's Babe, by Bernardine Evaristo
The causes of irritable bowel syndrome are poorly understood and the treatment can be ineffective, meaning that those it afflicts often suffer all their lives. Times, Sunday Times
That said, rental properties are often unloved and poorly equipped as landlords have little incentive to make them great places to live. The Sun
The dominant taxa at that time (modal geometries C and D) had compressed, moderately to openly umbilicate shells with slowly expanding whorls, morphologies poorly exploited by Permian goniatitids.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were feared as the haunt of pirates and buccaneers from Cornwall, France and Spain, who would lie in wait for poorly defended ships.
However, the density of that material is poorly defined by these observations.
The poop deck, forecastle and upper deck were beautifully kept, although the bilge had suffered from some leakage and had been poorly patched up.
That dynamic worked out poorly before the financial crisis as rating agencies happily gave their approval to toxic mortgage assets in exchange for very large fees. Times, Sunday Times
He has handled this general problem very poorly in both word and deed.
The cause of eggshell thinning is likewise poorly understood.
Unhappily, most of the new shows with women in leading roles—NBC's poorly scripted resurrection of the British hit "Prime Suspect," or ABC's inane remake of "Charlie's Angels," for example—offer little more than overcompensating caricatures of the fairer sex in an era of stiletto-heeled "postfeminism. A Marriage of Heaven and Hollywood
In this tryptic, I find the lampoonery of the physical deformation inherent to both the slight-statured, fat-footed Frodo and the EPO-swilling, peglegged pirate in the first 2 images to be apt signifiers of his poorly cobbled performances and subsequent attempts at mea culpa. The BSNYC Absentee Art Exhibition (Part II)
They dressed poorly - they don't bath for weeks, but they have mobiles.
As a result, digestion is compromised with the poorly assimilated food contributing to the organ congestion.
The job is relatively poorly paid.
So it would behove us ‘poorly informed’ environmentalists and ‘street protesters’ to post-haste mend our errant ways.
Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
I've noticed that sheep sleep upright with their legs tucked under their bodies unless they're poorly in which case they lie on their sides with legs stretched out.
The annoying thing is this tactic *does* work - mostly on those whose critical faculties have been ossified by Heat magazine and Big Brother, and on our poorly educated but properly indoctinated 'yoof'. THE CONSERVATIVE TALIBAN!

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