The train climbed up and up through the Arlberg Pass and on the other side descended to run alongside the turquoise river Inn, not clear like the Aegean but slightly milky, like a glass of water in which a child has rinsed a bright blue paintbrush.
How do you like that?" The staff looked happy but slightly wary, like kids taken to a nice restaurant by a demanding parent.
Budget Living will be eclectic too -- "chic, but slightly funky," like its readers, says the media kit, as though there were an indefinite smell somewhere in the room.
Not only dull, but slightly painful, like running complex calculations in your head first thing in the morning.
Having grown up in the States, a healthy red-blooded American, albeit Korean-American girl, I deemed these ploys of chastity's proof to be not only anachronistic, but slightly outlandish, like some scene from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
When asked to compare Farron with the Liberal Democrat party, just 23% stated that they liked Farron but slightly more – 28% – said they liked the Lib Dems, with no change from last year's conference.
It's one of their best, a whimsical but slightly eerie cartoon, like Coney Island itself.
But slightly later creations, like 1969's "TV Cello" and "TV Bra for Living Sculpture," played and worn by Paik's charismatic collaborator Charlotte Moorman, better capture his mischievous, performative streak.
These are clothes with a new sense of proportion, an old-meets-new feeling of poise that draws on old-fashioned childrenswear: crumpled pleats in place of body-hugging fabrics, balloon skirts in place of snake hips, rich but slightly "off" colours, like a cocktail dress in mustardy bronze.
In fact, if you look at public statements that Mr. Romney has made recently, they are nearly as conservative as Mr. Santorum's on social issues: slightly less so on issues like gay rights, but slightly more so on others like immigration.
