It is hard to say whether the show reflects a museum whose identity is in disarray, or one feebly attempting to redefine a subject whose past and present are seen as increasingly complicated.

She attempted feebly to snatch her hand away, but Alfred was stronger now than she was.

Resolutions are demanded, those doomed-to-failure promises at self-improvement that we feebly attempt to keep each year.

"I feebly attempted to get FEMA out of the business of ice," Mr. Brown told a House panel this week.

The rider obeyed without so much as a backward glance at the horse which was feebly attempting to climb back to its feet behind him.

Avenues of gravel led between tall trees; shadows of foliage lay stranded on the gravel, or attempted feebly to swim.

I looked to my right toward the rubble of what was once the Hall of Records and saw two men beating another as a woman feebly attempted to deter them.

The sound, which I might feebly attempt to classify as a kind of deep-tone chattering, was faintly continued.

Chattering frightenedly, he rushed at Greg, plunged through him, collided with the wall of the ship and toppled over, feebly attempting to rise.

He feebly attempts to lie about the contents with a work-related explanation to his wife.