And even with the lousy record the team has posted in his short tenure, his players believe in him. |
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Charlie attributes his lousy luck to the loss of his rabbit's foot and horseshoe. |
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Of course, we had pretty lousy communication between us, and totally flubbed the practical part of it. |
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If furthermore the impression is lousy with broken lines from worn blocks, you can be sure that it is a late edition. |
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It should come as no surprise that the result is a poor selection of expensive lousy telephone security products. |
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I placed my name on a recent letter to the editor about the lousy service at the local post office, and I am not sorry that I did. |
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But the good stuff survives and most of the lousy and mediocre stuff disappears, and people remember golden ages that never were. |
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He chose movie scripts profligately, appearing in lousy films just to earn money for his expensive enthusiasms. |
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I still feel lousy, but at least my head's stopped banging and the all-over body aching and shivers have subsided a bit. |
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And when we're at home, according to Colm, we're overweight, unfit, drink too much and the weather is lousy. |
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They were basically filling in for my absent father and were pretty lousy all the way around. |
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Even here in Vancouver, we have much lower than usual snowpacks on the local mountains, which makes for lousy skiing. |
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Suddenly, nobody wanted to sell paper to an upstart little company with a lousy credit rating. |
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His grades were awful, his phone bills enormous, his punctuality for meetings pathetic, his attitude lousy. |
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It's a perfectly good car, and it will serve you well when the weather is lousy. |
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Despite its romantic allure, gold has historically been a pretty lousy investment. |
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People will excuse all kinds of lousy speechmaking, just chalking it up to inexperience. |
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But stigma is an understandable attempt to deal with the fact that people do all kinds of lousy or naive or bullheaded things. |
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If the wine were lousy, no producer could expect a high price for it just because his land cost a bundle! |
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Either way, it's got to be good news that being lousy at parking is once more endearing rather than a relationship deal-breaker. |
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Mine was a lousy job. There must be a better way of making three squares a day. |
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While big budget often means lousy script and too many hacks spending the money, low-budget doesn't automatically mean quality. |
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Of course, after that incident, she seemed less than inclined to go see those lousy, no-good idiots anyway. |
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You enjoy seeing me suffer, don't you, you no-good, lousy harpy of a nurse? |
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I felt lousy last night and woke up this morning with a head and backache, crampy and an upset stomach. |
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Trust me, all of this is lousy, crummy, rotten behavior on your husband's part. |
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I really want to buy a new Toyota Matrix with a stick shift, but he insists that the front-wheel-drive version is lousy in the snow. |
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The hash house for me, and some job like it for you. A lousy parking lot job, where you wear a smock. |
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I'd much rather see old-fashioned stop-motion animation than lousy computer graphics. |
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Thus, consistent with Newton's famous law, lousy management invites an equal and opposing reaction. |
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Allegedly due to the arrogance and impatience of the male operators, telephone exchanges initially got lousy ratings for customer service. |
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The staff are indifferent, the music is lousy, and the drink prices are highway robbery. |
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We eventually found a bench on a windy overground train platform and huddled round lousy tea and coffees trying to keep warm. |
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Traditional plus-minus systems tend to overrate average players on good teams and underrate good players on lousy ones. |
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If you get a little behind each day, by the end of the week you'll be severely dehydrated, feeling lousy, and riding poorly. |
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I have read that Americans think that the service in British hotels is lousy. |
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It's a pity that he ruins his otherwise commendable film with some extremely lousy cinematography. |
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Sadly, though, I'm a lousy swiper and often have to try it three or four times before it works. |
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She plays a New York socialite and actress who is a lousy mother and has a penchant for good-looking young men. |
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I was feeling lousy and sick and rowed as badly as I had at the beginning of the week. |
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One thing that stands out is the lousy re-election rates of senators who came to office by defeating incumbents to get their seats. |
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Even while feeling lousy, it's hard to stay inside when the weather is so beautiful. |
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What an awful show with bad acting, lousy scripts, ridiculous effects, and poor lighting. |
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Despite your best attempts to put the pity party to rest, that lousy feeling sticks around like a rude guest. |
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Needless to say, I run a fiscally unsuccessful website as well, so I don't have any money to give the lousy creep. |
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And I can give you details of drug busts on musicians that were thrown out of court because the police made a lousy job of the fit-up. |
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I felt lousy this morning, and then I felt high on cold medication when I finally took something for it after trying everything else. |
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Within a few days I felt lousy, weak, listless. I ran a low-grade fever for a few days, and my head hurt. |
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He was lousy with lice. If I hadn't hugged him he would have bothered me all afternoon. |
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This camp was lousy with lice and fleas, and it wasn't long before I was as lousy as the rest of the boys there. |
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A public company with a lousy business can win the market's ever-shifting short-term popularity contests. |
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If I'm lucky, I'll see deer, rabbits, frogs, and find a treasure trove of the wild blackberry bushes their property is lousy with. |
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She was in a small, richly furnished room, lousy with velvet pillows in jewel tones, with deep gray draperies. |
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If you only knew how many lousy meals and rotten movies he has dragged Diana to throughout the years. |
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The area was lousy with saloons, dime museums, oyster bars, minstrel theaters, and establishments promising women in varying states of undress. |
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Taking away days and weeks worth of effort in a single stroke is a lousy rotten thing to do to your patrons. |
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Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments. |
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Does every sorority slasher flick have to assault our ears with the negligible talents of a really lousy frathouse party band? |
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There was poets' pub, lousy with drunks and soft with words, glittering with ideas and familiarity and mutual admiration. |
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Initially, customers groused about a grinding gear shift, poor air-conditioning, and lousy tires. |
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I was astonished and ran for my camera and eventfully found it and took one lousy picture. |
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Of course, while my friends seemed to be having great love lives, my love life was lousy. |
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They're nothing but lousy lowlifes with nothing better to do but smoke dope. |
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Yet, at the end of the day, it's just another lousy Hollywood movie, so why all the fuss? |
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What's more fun than spending too much money for lousy restaurant food served on saggy paper plates? |
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In America, lousy jobs are increasing as top corporations are awash in cash. |
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I see someone funny and sweet who cooks a mean steak and does a lousy John Wayne impression. |
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This is a lousy week for mundane affairs, like balancing your chequebook, looking for a job or negotiating a business deal. |
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The vented roofs of Caribbean housing are great for surviving the high gusts of a tropical storm but lousy at keeping out uninvited wee beasties. |
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However, if you happen to be out with me, just don't expect me to cough up for a tip if the service has been average or lousy. |
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I think when it rains and the weather's lousy they enjoy themselves even more. |
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Thursday the weather was lousy with snow and sleet showers being forecast and some heavy falls of snow likely. |
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So, I've feeling pretty lousy for about a week, a cold, back pain, the works. |
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With a lousy economy and a sinking stock market, equity funds were doomed. |
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Why must I be subjected to teams of lackwits telling lousy jokes, quipping lame quips, discussing current events with all the wit and wisdom of the village idiot? |
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If we want to discourage violence and aggression in our country, we need to look at its causes and I doubt that all this anger stemmed from a few lousy films! |
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Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades. |
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He even cried on camera during a pathetic and lousy piece of filmmaking. |
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He is just making lousy excuses, as the previous Minister did. |
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They are poor amid wealth and their living conditions are lousy. |
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Now he says the networks are doing a lousy job of covering the world. |
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As usual, it's overwhelmingly the rich who get the pleasure while the poor put up with lousy services and fares which have rocketed since deregulation. |
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I'm really lousy at writing emails, as you can probably see. |
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Thus, the fight to improve lousy schools so that poor, bright children stand a better chance of getting to good universities on merit is utterly undermined. |
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Do you think people are poor because of lousy educational opportunities, wildly unequal social conditions and layer upon layer of middle-class privilege? |
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But did you really expect I would recount my life after one lousy hello? |
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I'd been here three weeks and hadn't even bough one lousy souvenir. |
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I was late home tonight and felt really lousy with this head cold. |
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I came down with a cold the day Max and I flew out of Seattle, and I was very cranky to think that I was going to be sick and feeling lousy all weekend. |
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Every corner of this town, every street is lousy with associative action. |
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In case you haven't noticed, Jack, the place is lousy with oak trees. |
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The collection of pendant necklaces, shimmery bracelets, and delicate jeweled earrings in pale shades of purple, blue, and pink is absolutely lousy with girliness. |
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In the past two years, motorcycle sales surged as aging baby boomers, women, and suits lousy with disposable income looked to capture a bit of the two-wheel lifestyle. |
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Granted, no doubt the military have long since cracked the GSM encryption, and more importantly the core network is probably lousy with official bugs. |
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The New York Times editorial page is lousy with academic politics today. |
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The world is lousy with places claiming to be another Silicon Valley. |
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The investment bank had a lousy third quarter, but employees will still take home billions in bonuses. |
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We've always known that jockeys and footballers make lousy tipsters, but what of that timeless font of sporting knowledge and erudition, sportswriters? |
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Peter Shumlin has been doing a lousy job and voters turned against him, even though he outspent his opponent five to one. |
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If the experience is a lousy one, the collective opinion will be unfavorable. |
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Boring teams, lousy quarterbacks, and namby-pamby rules are making the National Football League unwatchable. |
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The fact that the Prime Minister himself is said to have strong-armed London's museums into mounting the festival does not make it inevitable that it will be lousy. |
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Visibility isn't the point since it's often lousy and if you get seasick all those boats bobbing about in the harbour can make you pretty miserable. |
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A particular stock may be undervalued, or it may be lousy value. |
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Lots of things got in the way of that, notably the lousy economy, and secondly the obstreperous Republicans. |
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Cranky old v.s. Naipaul is such an unpleasant bore that Paul Theroux even wrote a book about his lousy, misogynistic ways. |
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Torn between the aspect of keeping his lousy grade and keeping up with snot-nosed kindergarteners, he sat in the lounge and rolled his papers between his hands uncertainly. |
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By Tuesday, your throat is sore, your joints ache and you feel lousy. |
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Yet abandoning the argument over a few lousy verbals was untenable. |
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Perhaps this is some postmodern gay subversion, but to me it just seemed like lousy writing and lackluster direction. |
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Part of acknowledging our inadequacies and sinfulness is to admit when you are doing a lousy job speaking the truth, which is the main burden of the Cdl's message. |
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He does such a lousy job you don't get the callback until it's over. |
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Paul won almost by default because of Jon's lousy hand in the first round. |
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My parents went on staycation, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. |
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Over the weekend I found myself with a hankering to see lousy movies. |
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Once there, things go from lousy to worse as Emily starts staring blankly into the surrounding woods and palling around with a sinister invisible friend called Charlie. |
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One was a film about Eskimos building an igloo, which was pretty lousy, because there was a ponderous commentary which tried to tell you that Eskimos live in igloos. |
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That anyone would find his lousy play any good infuriates him. |
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I'm a lousy futurist, so I'm loathe to make any big predictions. |
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Few things grate a Canadian hockey fan more than seeing one of our national teams lose to an American team, especially when the game was decided by a lousy, fluky goal. |
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In fact, even if you think his ideas are lousy full stop, his behaviour is lousy, his friends, clothes and the way he deals with the kids are lousy, you must never say so. |
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The fact that most people don't know what theory means is proof positive of the lousy job we already do of teaching philosophy of science to our students. |
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On the downside, Frederick and I agreed that the food was lousy and the staff were generally gormless, but the quality of the attractions is adequate compensation. |
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She found herself thinking disloyally, He must be a lousy lecturer. |
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The getaway Car is lousy with these throwaway lines and asides. |
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Their intentions may be good, but their execution and insight are lousy. |
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And if you're a great kisser, you're going to turn her on and have an edge on the other guys that date her that are lousy kissers. |
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If you are a lousy kisser, then you're going to be a failure at creating good chemistry between you and your date. |
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As these are home recordings, the sound quality is lousy, but that only adds to the set's otherworldliness. |
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Not surprisingly, some around Barry Goldwater thought it was a lousy idea. |
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Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores. |
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Of all the lousy excuses for running scared, Cameron hiding behind a Green figleaf is up there with Adam blaming Eve for that incident with the apple. |
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Karl is a good lay but a lousy scam artist, and when he is injured after a botched sidewalk job, his work duties are taken over by a cute young garage mechanic named Rudolf. |
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As a fifth grader at Migrainia Elementary his days are filled with ripping wedgies, lousy grades, and wasted daydreams of being a big league baseball player. |
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So I told this guy if he thought I was going to start putting out for a lousy part in some equity-waiver theater, he was out of his freeping mind. |
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