Sentence examples for seems too slight from inspiring English sources

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Minor now seems too slight a word to me for the purveyor of such major pleasures.

Perhaps the play itself seems too slight, too ephemeral, but, as Helen says, "We're all forgotten — soon enough".

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"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.

The only shadow on the otherwise glorious weekend was that "It's Kind of a Funny Story," an understated tale of a suicidal teenager's transformative stay in an adult mental ward, seemed too slight to prosper.

As a culture, we flagellate ourselves for the performative demands we make of our children, and the poignancy of Klam's book — what elevates it from seeming too slight or just plain unnecessary — is its depiction of a parenting style that is radically opposite and just as perilous.

That seems too little, too late.

This error seems too high as the purpose of the present study is to discuss the slight differences recorded among sensors, and no bias correction was applied to #2.

Neither seems too chipper.

That seems too gloomy.

That seems too strong.

It seems too much.

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