Sentence examples for be a bit slight from inspiring English sources

He was thought to be a bit slight, but showed up for the Scouting Combine at 6'4, 236.

As it is, it's been a bit slight.

48) Sargent It's quite the thing in the art world to "rediscover" artists whose works are dismissed as a bit slight.

So, why you might ask, if the whole machine was a bit of slight-of-hand rocketry did NASA bother to spend almost half a billion dollars (that's billion with a "b") in developing and launching the Ares 1-X? Technical problems, the kind that follow every new rocket's development, have haunted the Ares like leftovers from Halloween.

Anything by a female writer featuring female characters runs the risk of being slagged off as a bit "slight" and so it was in 1963 when Mary McCarthy published The Group – Norman Mailer called it "a trivial lady writer's novel".

Additionally, local architects complained that it was a bit of a slight that two European architects were chosen to produce works to serve as the focal points of the Burnham Plan Centennial celebration.

Luke is a bit quiet, but his slight awkwardness is endearing.

"I'm a bit humbled by that," says Slight.

But this "I hate my life" thing is a bit more problematic than the slight dip in parental life satisfaction that research shows can occur when children are young.

Composed with rigorous perfectionism, they are a bit like jazz, allowing a slight aberration in form to revel in its reverberations.

Exiene m.c.s 3 or 4 shows a night and is a bit of a stage mother, slighting certain comics while showing attention upon his protégés.