Word: meagerness
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...made clear that it wants international support for any military action in Haiti, but to expect it from the European powers seems unrealistic. With Germany, France and Great Britain so loathe to muddy their ankles in Bosnia, prospects for aid look meager. The U.S. would expect the Europeans to at least contribute financial backing for an invasion of Haiti, but the affairs of the island nation simply don't concern them...
...half-century ago. German Expressionism was known only through a pitiful smattering of black-and-white reproductions, messages in a bottle from a Europe that seemed almost inconceivably distant -- 14,000 miles away and shrouded in another kind of cultural space. But when the sources of advanced style are meager, as they were in Australia in the '40s, beautiful deformities can arise -- if there's enough naked psychic pressure behind them to compensate, at least in part, for a thin diet of other...
...insensitivity" in the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Not even children's books escaped her opprobrium. After meeting E.B. White, she read a copy of his Charlotte's Web and then reported that it is "so awful." She was hardest of all on her own work. Apologizing for her meager output, she begged Moore, "Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that...
With no place to hide, tens of thousands of refugees lined the roads in all directions, seeking a way out of the blood-soaked city; the streams of misery stretched for miles. Most were on foot, carrying meager bundles of possessions. Scores of people crowded into buses and clung to the sides of any vehicle that would attempt the twisting, mountainous roads. The wealthy raced away in luxury cars with private bodyguards, the barrels of automatic weapons jutting from every window. Danger still waited at checkpoints every mile or so, manned by demoralized and frightened Rwandan soldiers looking for loot...
Gutierrez says Harvard has yet to take even afirst step towards admitting that ethnic studiesis a valuable intellectual pursuit. "I think thatwe have to criticize the meager response of theadministration, which is indicative of theirreluctance to do anything," he says...