Sentence examples for deceptively slight from inspiring English sources

In her professional encounters Malcolm benefits, perhaps, from the fact she is small and deceptively slight.

This deceptively slight novel is as good as anything Canongate has ever published.

Dubbed "Little Mo" by an affectionate press, Connolly was deceptively slight and engaging off court, but in action she displayed awesome power in her drives and a distractingly expressionless face.

The beauty of Ms. July's deceptively slight, poetically touching social sculpture is that the pictures people take will circulate among friends and relatives, reach an audience that someone like the magisterial Joseph Beuys could only dream of.

I saw Matthew Bulgo's Last Christmas in Edinburgh during the summer, so it's good to see this deceptively slight one-man show getting a festive outing at Soho theatre.

Gemmell proves, in Patricia Benecke's production, that women have the capacity to transcend the mundane; and it is her performance, above all, that gives LaBute's deceptively slight plays an air of epic intensity.

Willo is one of those deceptively small and slight players who are actually made out of solid steel.

However slight and deceptively simple Burns's poetry may appear, those who drink deep will be rewarded by its quiet intelligence and subtle ways of seeing.

The focus now is on a slight, but deceptively tough former environmentalist - a mixed-race woman in a country where misogyny and racism have yet to be defeated.

I use some other sneaky tricks to ensure that the drums sound pretty much quantized, but are deceptively not, and have slight amounts of consistent timing throughout.

He also addressed the more subtle slights, such as the frequent description of him as "deceptively athletic" or "deceptively quick".