Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Otherwise, the "Aperto" is apocalyptic trivia, devoid of aesthetic impulse. Everything is on much the same dull, hectoring, narcissistic and politically simpleminded level; all complexity of artistic response has been ironed down into puerile rhetoric, one-liners that have no further resonance once you've got their meager point. Some have no point: How about a nice big wall covered in monochrome orange carpet, or a giant mound of Plasticine? The mix of witless conceptualism, pseudo documentary and weakly recycled minimalism is stifling...
Growth in GDP during the first quarter was a meager 0.9%, the weakest since...
...wave continues to roll forward, so I ask the clerk to sell my holdings at 53, netting me a fast -- if meager -- $2.50 gain. The purchaser at the other end was Salomon Brothers. Of course, if I had been a regular customer at All-Tech, I would have bought 1,000 shares and earned $250 (minus an $80 commission) on the transaction. Not bad for a few minutes' work...
...weak and silly, dazed from the regimen of opiates and alcohol she has administered to him as "tonics." The therapeutic tortures Will endures are grotesque, but the novel's direction is predictable, and all that the story must resolve is how long it takes Will to gather his meager wits and clear out. Loosely related subplots, thrown in to keep matters churning, deal with the efforts of a couple of con men to get rich in the cereal business and of Kellogg's bitter adopted son to take well-justified vengeance on the great doctor...
...ones rediscovered in the Gobi Desert, along the ancient Silk Road in the mountains of China, on the margin of the Argentine Andes and in the jungles of Laos and Thailand. Despite the remarkably small number of scientists working in the field -- only about 100 worldwide, splitting a meager $1 million in research funds -- a new dinosaur species is found on average every seven weeks...