Although "Happy" proves to be anything but that in its thin, bitter contents, the show delivers an often-spirited duel around the dinner table that eventually draws blood.
Called gingerbread, it is anything but a child's dessert: thin triangles of spice cake layered with mascarpone ice cream sit amid black drizzles of a sauce that tastes like melted licorice whips.
You don't have to be model-thin or anything, but do try to look attractive.
In fact, I think the real issue isn't titillation, as these pretty-faced but scrawny, painfully thin models are anything but titillating.
I felt kind of dumb walking out of my room afterward, because the deferral letter I'd slipped from the thin, white pocket was anything but worthy of the melodramatic, outwardly pessimistic-but-secretly hopeful setup I'd devoted to it.
My Joan Didion is thin and small and anything but frail.
I wish I had been developed enough to understand the pleasure one gets from sitting at a piano and playing anything from thin air.
You just can't conceive that anything this thin could contain a battery (good for 22 hours of audio playback), a screen and 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory (1,000 or 2,000 songs' worth, for $150 or $200).
Straw, bits of cardboard, corrugated iron, planks, flattened beer cans, mats of woven branches, burlap, and anything else thin and flat that might keep out rain were tied, nailed, pegged, and wired to crude frames made of tree trunks lashed together at the joints with vines or wire.
