Sentence examples for slender hard from inspiring English sources

In Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey: 2001, when the hominids at the dawn of man gleaned the potential of a femur bone, a long slender hard implement in the hands of the evolving man-ape became a weapon, an essential survival tool that gave the primitive tribe the power over the water hole and ignited the spark for evolution.

Operas here start in the late afternoon then bang on for hours and hours, and famously they are consumed on hard, slender, fold-down seats.

Larvae of click beetles (Elateridae) are cylindrical or flat and slender and have a hard surface.

For Livingstone, resilient though he is, this defeat by such a painfully slender margin will be hard to bear.

On the bench beside me was a slender boy with a hard hat cocked to one side, as if it were a fedora.

Kristin Scott Thomas's elegant bone structure and slender frame make it hard to imagine her as a coarse-grained woman (though it would be fun to see her play one).

The bricks, specially ordered from the Netherlands, were of a hard-burned, slender type, known as muffer or mopper.

It forms red to reddish brown, hard, brilliant metallic, slender crystals, often completely surrounded by other minerals.

Quantitative analysis of survival percentage in spring 2013 indicated that the best mixture for roadsides in central Minnesota comprises 20% slender creeping red fescue, 40% hard fescue, and 40% sheep fescue.

Charlie Sheen's gorgeous ex looked absolutely stunning in her sizzling white swimsuit, with her rock hard abs and slender physique.

To Richard Holmes the evidence linking Marlborough with the Camaret Bay letter (which no longer exists), is slender, concluding, "It is very hard to imagine a man as careful as Marlborough, only recently freed from suspicion of treason, writing a letter which would kill him if it fell into the wrong hands".