Sentence examples for half a slight from inspiring English sources

His real-world impressions are still weirdly off-base, and the dive into Tennessee Williams melodrama more a lurch, but it's only half a slight to say this would have been even-par Woody in his golden run of the 1980s: it's a film that feels directly transported from that most brittle, literate, female-fascinated phase of his career.

Interestingly, our results did not completely reproduce data observed by Cloughsey et al [21] where fourteen recurrent PTEN null GBMs were biopsied both before and after treatment with rapamycin, in which half of the patients had no change in Akt activity and half had a slight increase in Akt activity.

A casual loose-limbed spirit permeates "Past Half Remembered," a slight ensemble-created piece by the New International Encounter theater group that has more charm than substance.

He spoke between songs only to introduce his band members, but he was charming nonetheless, acknowledging the rapt audience with a half smile and a slight shrug.

The government reported on June 27th that the economy grew by 5.18% in the first half of 2014, a slight rise from the same period last year.

Jermaine Jones' strike in the last minute of the first half gave Schalke a slight advantage as they drew 1-1 at Galatasaray in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 encounter.

We then meditated silently for half an hour, a slight breeze blowing through the open doors at our backs as we sat cross-legged on our prayer mats, trying to clear our minds.

Give LeBron James an inch or two, a second or two, a half-step or a slight gap, and he will turn you into a historical footnote, a foil for his Hall of Fame highlight reel.

But in the half-century since a slight, sallow man named Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy, so much continues to be said about the assassination that the various conspiracy devices and theories are nearly as familiar as the tragic event itself.

Goalkeeper James Fair made two key first-half saves, taking a slight knock after the second, to preserve England's advantage, but De Paeuw's mis-hit finish evaded the helpless Fair for Belgium's equaliser.

While preliminary data from the first half of 2015 showed a slight bump in violent crimes in the first six months of 2015 compared with the first half of 2014, it's important to remember that violent crime was at record lows in 2014, and final data from all of 2015 is not yet available.