| Still, these are footling changes, and most of the text remains commendably unimproved. |
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| Having taken the lead against Turkey their football became fitful, then flabby, and towards the end was footling. |
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| Allow one honest sentence to emerge from all this feeble, formulaic footling. |
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| The true Way to the Knowledge of the Source is not the timid and footling way of the Student, but the Divine Foolery of the Hacker. |
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| He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling. |
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| An espionage conviction, no matter how footling the cited offense, was considered tantamount to proof of treason. |
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| But such complaints seem footling in the face of such a grandstanding display. |
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| Don't abuse the privilege of having my cell number by wasting my valuable time on this kind of footling nonsense. |
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| But I have to say that I won't be detained by footling objections of this kind. |
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| Unfortunately the analyses of actual music are pedestrian and footling. |
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| But I would be very surprised if most hunt members didn't soon tire of footling about and looked for other ways to relieve the boredom of country life in winter. |
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| I have had a good deal of satisfaction over this weekend either footling around on my mountainbike, or watching the Manchester leg of the World Cup. |
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| A cheese eater from the moment I was born, I have always turned my nose up at the footling quoits and mini-pyramids of cream the French call cheese. |
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| It may be reassuring to some Americans to think of our country as above the community of nations and beyond the footling machinations of minor states. |
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| Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling. |
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| As the sun gradually brightens, the level of carbon dioxide in the air will fall, regardless of any temporary, millennia-long blips caused by footling things such as a civilisation based on fossil fuels. |
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| The other parties are hurriedly upgrading their systems. The Conservatives enjoy the healthiest balance-sheet, although it is footling by American presidential standards. |
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| By footling round with centrifuges and liquid nitrogen they were reducing food to a set of mental hurdles, as though there weren't already enough traffic lights and zebra crossings in life. |
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| In 1999 my fourth child made an unexpected footling breech presentation. |
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| The shoulder presentation was turned podalically. In the case of the footling the feet were kept up and the primiparous passages dilated by caoutchouc bags. |
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| Footling left-wing Lilliputians have failed to contest this shift, occasionally making things worse. |
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