She doesn't quite fit the part physically, being a bit too slender and lithe to play Monroe, whose image is as famous today as it was back in her heyday.
His only possible defect was that his face, a bit too slender and delicate, could give the impression that he was lacking in personality or was wishy-washy.
The fact that the average children's book is quite a bit more slender than, say, some Robert Caro doorstop no doubt aids productivity: any single volume of Caro's three-volume-and-counting Lyndon Johnson biography would probably contain enough words to fill up thousands of children's books, if you could write a children's book with the word "cloture" in it that anyone would want to read.
Wiseguys, ladies' men, queer eyes and even Jersey girls have all managed to take up a slender bit of shelf space at the local mammoth bookseller.
The idea advanced by Ludlow and Segal, however, is that this slender bit of information, combined with Gricean principles, is sufficient to generate the uniqueness implication that is carried by a definite description.
Have a slender bit of blank wall?
Overall, the Surface feels a bit like holding a slender, long, well-built PC.
Will eventually falls in love with Jack's close friend Alexandra, a New York heiress and beauty, tall and lean, "just a bit brittle," with "a long, slender neck" and "marsupial ears".
I very much liked the one appetizer, pfannkuchen soup ($3), literally pancake soup, a mild beef broth seasoned only with parsley and a bit of salt and containing slender strips of egg pancakes, the equivalent of light dumplings.
These two photographs, separated by 30 years, illustrate the transition of the Hudson River shoreline from a declining maritime port to a dismal traffic corridor to a blank-faced institutional backwater to a slender — but welcome — bit of parkland.
