Sentence examples for A shade too small from inspiring English sources

In that role the soprano Christine Schäfer failed to make much of an impact, with a voice that sounded a shade too small.

Their lovely timbres blended well and with a power that was sometimes missing from the first two lessons, where their individual voices, expressive as they were, sounded a shade too small for the large space.

I'm a tall, lean fellow, so XL is just a shade too small and XXL is too baggy.

That may be a shade too simplistic.

Eventually the book gets a shade too technical.

The actors were going a shade too quickly, Linklater said.

Just a shade too Heaven's Gate for my taste.

Each scene makes its point a shade too neatly.

Still, Woodward's "Maestro" is a shade too asymmetric-positive.

Sometimes the city can be a shade too tranquil.

"Maybe her lipstick is a shade too blue," the designer suggested with a show of tact.