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This is notably so in the case of Lear, which is the tragedy of a man who (in the words of one of his daughters) "hath ever but slenderly known himself" and whose fault (as the Fool suggests) is to have grown old before he grew wise.
It is smaller than the red kangaroo and more wallaroo-like in general appearance, although it is more slenderly built.
No, Best Possible Taste was mainly about Everett's relationship with wife Lee Middleton, and his struggle with being gay, although this doesn't seem much of a struggle as Lee asks her husband if he's gay on their very first meeting, which he only slenderly denies, before then having boyfriends continually through the 90 minutes.
Ripper Street continues for seven weeks; detectives rushing around the fake streets and canal banks of East London, greeting their latest bleak discovery with slenderly veiled glee.
Greenblatt recited the exchange: GONERIL: You see how full of changes his age is.... REGAN: 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.
"Beckett's first story is slenderly plotted, focusing on the protagonist's conflict between silence and the voice within him: 'He dreaded lest his prisoner should escape, he longed that it might escape,' " Ms. Cohn wrote in her 2001 book, "A Beckett Canon," about his early short story "Assumption".
So what would his diagnosis of Lear be? "Well," Rutter interjects, "it's as his daughters remark: he's a man 'who hath ever but slenderly known himself'".
In the Wag department, cyclists' partners are broadly – or should that be slenderly – similar to other sporting Wags, though they are probably longer-suffering than many, given that cyclists race up to 100 days a year.
It is a story about how much or little we can control our fate, how slenderly we may know a person, how frugality and luxury, love and hate, the domestic and the public spheres of life are inextricable".
Slenderly slivered or finely diced veg delivers maximum taste for minimum mastication.
(While on the subject of kingdoms and exiled rulers, there are more than a few references to King Lear hidden in the text of The Swimmer: another man who "hath ever but slenderly known himself").
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The adverb "slenderly" primarily functions to modify verbs or adjectives , indicating the manner in which an action is performed or the degree to which a quality is possessed. It emphasizes a sense of thinness, slightness, or delicacy, as evidenced by Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Common
