Sentence examples for might seem slight from inspiring English sources

The importance of the Founding Fathers and of the events of 1773 for the twenty-first-century Tea Party movement might seem slight; surely the name is happenstance, the knee breeches knickknacks, the rhetoric of revolution unthinking.

Glass might seem fragile.

For other consumers, that might seem tenuous.

"Peter and the Wolf," Prokofiev's 1936 musical fable about a plucky boy who resourcefully captures a fierce predator, might seem too slight to be called a masterpiece.

But what might have made the book seem slight instead elevates its dramatic effect.

While these differences may seem slight, the cultural gulf separating the two derbies might as well divide baseball from cricket.

If they seem slight now, just wait.

In that light the progress in Zabul may seem slight.

On the face of it, grounds for concern seem slight.

That might seem like a slight, but it's actually a testament to Toyota design and to a car company truly thinking about utility when making an SUV.

In striving for a streamlined "Porgy and Bess," a version that might seem more urgent, intimate and dramatically lucid, the new adaptation just makes the piece seem slighter.