Recent Examples on the WebBut the movie already struggles with narrative momentum, given the many tangents in Tashi, Art and Patrick’s thorny connections: While not exactly flabby, the film clocks in at 131 minutes and the script could use the same toning up as its sinewy performers.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024 The love of music drives a lot of the product development at Cambridge Audio, producing a classic British sound that is neither flabby nor overblown.—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 Kenny was large for his age, with a flat, flabby face and a high, whinnying voice.—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024 The authentic Christmas dinner had consisted of dry turkey, lumpy mashed potatoes, and flabby spears of asparagus.—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2023 Yet despite all the combat and chase scenes, the pace sometimes drags; episodes that feel flabby at 45 minutes might’ve been more captivating at a half hour.—TIME, 1 Feb. 2024 These flabby strips of breast are juicy and taste like the chicken on a mid-tier restaurant’s Caesar salad.—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 Aug. 2023 But how could little Alexandra be entrusted to this flabby, slovenly, psychologically troubled woman?—Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 The flabby, violent, ineffective police state that advances nightly through plumes of tear gas is the dreary and inevitable outcome of the unspoken and unexamined political consensus.—David Roth, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
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