Arguing that American Jews face a more fragile future, Hertzberg has made sport of Silberman's claims for the contemporary Jewish religious revival, contending that it is pretty puny stuff.

Both girls giggled; Mac looked like a pretty puny specimen.

It seems to me to be a pretty puny response to something that the Cardinal considers to be the gravest moral evil.

"This is a pretty substantial undertaking even though it's a pretty puny reactor," he said.

He was a pretty puny angel, not to be able to beat a mortal man.

But Gregori didn't strike me as the sort of scientist who would make any mistakes and this looked like a pretty puny hamster to me.

They're pretty puny fighters, to Everyone was so afraid of them when this war started.

"My nest egg is looking pretty puny," a 57-year-old secretary from Irvington said.

"You're pretty puny for a jock."

If we had faked it, it would look pretty puny I think.