Sentence examples for a slight counter from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chaignaud had long, curly tresses, and he had painted his long fingernails pink — a slight counter, perhaps, to the obvious differences in the performers' sexual organs.

"His boy-next-door [image] – not very good looks but a perfectly nice guy – and the song Thinking Out Loud, with its reflections on getting older and fidelity and love in a fairly conventional context, is a slight counter-blast to fast-living celebrity culture".

A slight counter-staining was done using aqueous hematoxylin.

"The rotation of the Earth is responsible for a very slight counter-gravity (centrifugal) force.

For both zones and speed behaviors, the distributions are peaked at zero curvature and have relatively symmetric distributions, the exception being near-zero motion in the Central Zone, which shows a slight skewness towards counter-clockwise motion (κ>0).

There is a slight reference to the counter narratives on this idyllic conception as tensions existed even then thereby puncturing the myth (for instance the 1066 Granada massacre of Jews).

But in this provincial seaside spot where immigration is still not commonplace, what may come as a surprise is that the bartender behind the counter is a slight Chinese woman, quietly pouring draft wine (and harder stuff) for her wizened clients.

The change in total selection on height was due to a shift from a negative to a positive relationship between height and adult fertility, which ran counter to a slight decrease in the positive relationship between height and early survival (see Table 1 for details).

The result was a mid-single-digit decline in Hong Kong spending during the second half of the year, the company said, accompanied by a slowdown in mainland China, but countered by a slight lift in Europe.

Remove milk from heat and set on a kitchen towel on your counter top, at a slight angle.

ANR counters that mathematics had a slight but unfair advantage over the more applied sciences earlier, and says it is balancing the scales.