Sentence examples for missing a minor from inspiring English sources

If you haven't seen "The Heartbreak Kid," Elaine May's 1972 adaptation of a short story by Bruce Jay Friedman (with a screenplay by Neil Simon), you're missing a minor, if somewhat dated, classic, a study in Jewish male sexual anxiety that fits comfortably (which is to say nervously and neurotically) alongside "Portnoy's Complaint" and the early films of Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky.

When the clotting factor is missing, a minor bleed can become a hemorrhage.

Of the remaining 5,089 cases, 2.3% were missing a minor amount of GHQ-28 data.

Hennessey did not throw a pitch in 2002, missing a minor-league season because of two back operations.

Irabu, who missed a minor league start with Montreal last year because he had been drinking, led the Puerto Rican Winter League in strikeouts and is a candidate for the fifth spot.

Increasing numbers tell us they have actually had welfare payments sanctioned – but arriving late for an appointment, missing a letter, or making a minor mistake with paperwork leads to claimants losing all benefits, including housing benefit, for at least four weeks (and usually longer; six weeks seems to be normal).

In the face of this peace, what I miss is a minor annoyance, gradually forgotten as new habits form and solidify.

Bukowski describes terrible beatings, sadistically inflicted for minor transgressions like missing a blade of grass when he mowed the lawn.

Even minor insults, such as missing a few hours' sleep, can often "push the migraine brain over the line into having an attack," Sigal says.

Mags Hobson missed a funeral after a minor technical problem grounded her flight from Gibraltar back to London in July 2014.

When the veteran Chicago Bears snapper Patrick Mannelly missed a game with a minor injury, Desmond Clark, perhaps inspired by Martz's playbook full of four-receiver, zero-tight-end formations, volunteered to sub.