Sentence examples for on a slender from inspiring English sources

His position in the American canon is secure, however, and rests on a slender collection of immortal stories and one enduring masterpiece of a novel whose garrulous anguish makes him, in the words of writer Gish Jen "the avatar of American authenticity", a boy for all seasons.

The widely used, one-dimensional model of film casting considered here is based on a slender body approximation of the Navier Stokes equations with moving boundaries, paired with kinematic assumptions.

The appellate decision also turned on a slender legal issue.

I DEBARKED in Piran, set on a slender finger of land pointing into the sea.

The metal version can also be set into the ground on a slender steel rod.

To his right was Liberty Ellman, on a slender acoustic, made by Collings.

A silver cross hangs on a slender chain from the rearview mirror of her car.

They did, of a sort, on a slender ribbon of a lane.

His self-titled RockPod, with winching points, a watertight access hatch and windows built into it by Hancock, will be fixed to one of the few flat points on Rockall, a slender area called Hall's Ledge.

On Saturday, back in Brazil, the expectations were heaped even higher on Neymar, a slender, rich and extravagantly gifted young man.

Few important historical writings have ever rested on such a slender empirical basis.