Yorke is a slight, quick-witted presence; when he walks in there is not a flicker of recognition on the faces around us.
He had been a slight, quick-moving boy, but prison had given him muscle, thick, useless muscle that seemed to impair his agility and felt strange to the father who embraced him.
Over a fish finger sandwich, Roots – a slight, quick-witted renewable energy consultant – recalled his boyhood days at Winchester, which claims to be longest continuously operating boarding school in the world.
In London, I was used to taking slight, quick breaths without even realising it, whereas the cleanliness of Sweden's air meant I could inhale it deeper into my lungs.
Mr. Pakman, an unassuming man with a slight build and quick smile, pointed out that he practices what he preaches when it comes to tapping the Internet to listen to other people's music.
Melamid, a slight, thin, dark, quick man of around forty, wearing horn-rimmed glasses and jeans and running shoes, looks like any number of boyish New York Jewish or New York Italian men.
A slight man with a quick tongue and a fearsome intellect, Mr. Zemmour, 52, has made a career of speaking on the edge in a culture where the ideal of social harmony often takes precedence over freedom of speech.
(A slight overstatement: He is quick to say he relies on federal deposit insurance).
The director and his fictional protagonist share the need to charm, a quick wit, a slight neurosis, and several turns of phrase, among other things.
He was quick to sense a slight, suspicious with strangers, and unable to conceal a certain arrogance toward those less quick-witted than himself.
"I knew that Ellen was quick to take a slight, and I was concerned she would see that I wasn't reciprocating".
