Nick Mitchell of The Skinny pointed out that the record is "an unrestrained, unclassifiable, unexpectedly triumphant romp through blaring influences and genres, from the 70s camp rock of Queen and Bowie to the primitive electronics of Gary Numan, with echoes of 90s computer games and snatches of modern house".
She even wore boots she had designed to meet her ankles at the skinniest point "to make my legs look like toothpicks".
Not all French people are skinny, they pointed out.
It was not well received locally, then, when Sale went straight back up the other end and the lively Beaumont accelerated away for his second score to reduce the deficit to a skinny six points.
"Low-cut V-neck T-shirts, skinny jeans, pointed white shoes" and "anyone who looks like David Beckham" will apparently be excluded from Lorca.
Her silhouette was skinny to the point of looking stifling.
The boys were skinny to the point of anorexia, though every gang always had the one with deltoids like a leg of ham, generally waiting for you in the parking lot.
(Anything long, skinny, and slightly pointed will work).
One hopes that, in the aftermath of all this, people will pay heed to a statement James herself made: "Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?" Change won't come from pointing at skinny bodies instead of bigger ones; it'll come from stopping the pointing altogether.
There is nothing funny, or at this point particularly skinny, about Colin Powell, but his prestige remains great, even after the tarnish of Iraq.
