The Karate Kid is a solid remake of one of the most fondly cherished films of the 1980s about a
weakling who dares to stand up to bullies and turns their aggression against them.
I am not a
weakling, but I don't think I can jump over the cement bags and the garbage skip.
Army was a puny
weakling when the war began; (2) The war encumbered all of America; (3) The U.S.
Especially 10-stone
weakling Radzi Chinyanganya who announced: "Ultimately, I'm a Christian.
Adverts belittle men by portraying them as being stupid or by having a bossy woman as their boss, presenting the male as a
weakling.
"I don't want no seven stone
weakling, or a boy who thinks he's a girl, I'm after a hunk of a guy, an experienced man of the world, there ain't no way that I'll make do, with anything less than I'm used to, if I have a man tonight, he's gotta be right, right, right...
THE SON OF A
WEAKLING FATHER and in turn the father of a
weakling son, Edward I was one of the most formidable and effective of all English kings.
Tyler Miller, now a senior, has been bullied since sixth grade; he's the original 97-pound
weakling. As an alternative to blowing up the high school, he vandalizes the flagpole and is sentenced to community service that forces him to work hard all summer.
Weisblatt was said to have paid the impoverished Howard - described as "a
weakling fond of drink" - pounds 500 plus an annuity of pounds 7 a week.
Do you want to be remembered as a
weakling, a man who gave up?
He was a cruel Gentile
weakling who tried to wash his conscience with water as he handed Jesus over to a mob manipulated by a Jewish hierarchy.
His bizarre Harley-riding, chopper-piloting, reporter-threatening efforts to show executive manliness would have herniated a gorilla, but his Jesuitical denials that he ever favored force against Iraq, the No Child Left Behind Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, or NAFTA, all of which he voted for, make it clear that he's a 98-pound
weakling when it comes to standing by his record.
The classic "97-pound
weakling" might become significantly stronger but, when defining success for him, the strength gains must be measured against his own previous lifting abilities.
Gullion, Leech, and Lyon are all initially from Indianapolis--their version of Malta, the Mediterranean island that served as the 98-pound
weakling for bomb-happy Axis forces during World War II.
Being thought of as a "
weakling," "complainer," or "bad" patient; not wanting to distract the physician; and fear of the drugs used to treat pain are among the reasons cited.
