Poor puny things!

They're kind of puny.

Only puny secrets need protection.

I felt puny and absurd. A ludicrous midget.

You look right puny for goin' on seven.

Either way, it's a puny lad or a poor lady.

There are limits beyond which man and his puny efforts cannot survive.

Each time life breaks through the circle, the games become puny and ridiculous.

Pretty fellow, play a livelier tune that I can make this puny rascal dance to.

There was a time though in your fourth month that you were so puny, nobody thought you'd live!

As a lover of democracy and the people, I can assure you... both will survive your puny efforts.

Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.

It's amazing just on the puny power of the sun by having a super lightweight plane, you're able to get it up there.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face.

It is as if an ant should try to understand our decisions, so puny is our intelligence in comparison with the infinite wisdom of God.

Moreover, the assertion that our intelligence is puny in comparison with God s presupposes just the point that is under debate that there is a god who is all knowing, all powerful, and all good.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration s record deficit.

Little did the dusky children think that the puny slip with its two eyes only, which they stuck in the ground in the shadow of the house and daily watered, would root itself so, and outlive them, and house itself in the rear that shaded it, and grown man's garden and orchard, and tell their story faintly to the lone wanderer a half century after they had grown up and died blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that first spring.

To mitigate the effects of a US recession and global economic slump, the Fed and other central banks should be cutting rates much more aggressively, rather than relying on modest liquidity injections that are bound to fail. The Fed s 25 basis point cut in December was puny relative to what is needed similar cuts by the Bank of England and Bank of Canada do not even begin to address the increase in nominal and real borrowing rates that the sharp rise in Libor rates has induced.