Soon his mythologic scenes became thinly disguised opportunities to paint more species.
It sits on ten wooded acres on the edge of town and offers plentiful firewood, but its remoteness leaves him vulnerable to bandits as the social contract breaks down and police forces, working with reduced budgets, become more thinly stretched.
As a result, the stocks can fall from their initial offering price and become so thinly traded that the Street calls them "roach motels" -- investors can get in, but they can't get out.
I had let myself become so thinly spread on social media that I had lost track of the digital lives of my real friends as I was being constantly inundated by the photos and updates and likes and comments of the randoms and distant 4th.
With the leader of the Caucasus, Schamyl, referred to as the region's Jefferson Davis, Circassia became a thinly veiled analogy for Southern Confederate striving.
To Democrats, simplifying the tax system is a worthy cause, but one that, when entrusted to Republicans, becomes a thinly disguised excuse for pushing through further tax cuts for the wealthy.
The need for audience approval has led to innovations as well as some decadence in its impact on the musical scene: innovation, if the performer is led to discover imaginative and fresh means of attracting public acclaim; decadence, if the devices for audience attraction become cheap and thinly spectacular, when the performer may distract the audience from more deserving work and debase its taste.
So it's unfortunate that "Woke Up Lonely" eventually drifts away from looking at this paradox and becomes a farce about thinly drawn characters living through the Helix's last days.
And what would register as an inconvenience downstate has become a calamity for this thinly populated region, where the piney woods are already dusted with snow.
Contrelle is a psychotic drug addict; Sharlene is an agoraphobic wreck ; and their marriage is supposed to be a nightmare, but is so thinly sketched it becomes a cartoon instead.
