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The environment of our society, relative to others of its kind, looks threadbare.
First, they are rather threadbare in terms of control variables.
She is nearly featureless, beyond perfunctory indications of gender, and the threadbare metaphor of her wheel.
Our vision, our belief, our metaphysic is wearing woefully thin, and the art is wearing absolutely threadbare.
With more than two decades of the sociological analysis of science behind us it cannot come as a surprise that legends are becoming threadbare.
The likelier prospect is a more threadbare safety net, obliging public clients and the uninsured to travel farther, wait longer, and (perhaps) get less attentive care.
Our parliamentary delegation was then prevented from travelling to the crisis region for a variety of completely threadbare reasons.
I thought that the coat looked a little threadbare, but it might just about last out to the next election.
We could not afford to make proposals anything like as threadbare as these.
They referred to the poor laundry service, threadbare sheets and a toilet without a seat at a teaching hospital.
I believe, said that the debate was already starting to run a trifle threadbare.
In the absence of any such efforts, this proposal is pretty threadbare.
I do not want to be tempted into probing more deeply that rather threadbare object, the social contract.
I feel that there are possiblities there, and that many of us who find our pockets, after many years, getting rather threadbare.
Ministerial bluster will not hide the threadbare nature of past promises and the present failure to deliver.
