We could already hear the graphite core in Sade's voice, a grainy contralto full of air that betrays a slight ache but no agony, and values even imperfect dignity over a show of pain.
Around the same time, an actor friend, Patrick Magee, contacted a BBC radio producer, and said, 'You've got to give this man a job, since he's about to give the whole thing up.' As a result, I got a commission and wrote A Slight Ache - which, by a neat piece of timing, is going to be revived by the National this autumn".
Wrap your opposite hand around the inside of your elbow and press with your thumb in a motion toward the outside of your arm until you find a slight ache or twinge when you press.
In 1953, at the Arts Theatre, she played Cristine in a revival of Lennox Robinson's Drama At Inish, a delicate tragi-comedy of theatrical life in Northern Ireland, and, in the 1960s and 70s, she continued to appear in a range of plays by such notable dramatists as Harold Pinter (Flora, in A Slight Ache), Alan Ayckbourn (Delia, in A Bedroom Farce), Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee.
Which is why Lester Young is part of the archival past, Mr. Gopnik said, as are haute cuisine stalwarts like La Grenouille, even though expressing as much seemed to give him a slight ache.
Despite its initial failure, it also brought Pinter a whole series of new commissions: he wrote revue-sketches for West End shows, for A Slight Ache and A Night Out for BBC radio and The Dumb Waiter as an accompaniment to The Room.
After Pinter's radio play A Slight Ache (first produced 1959) was adapted for the stage (1961), his reputation was secured by his second full-length play, The Caretaker (first produced 1960; filmed 1963), which established him as more than just another practitioner of the then-popular Theatre of the Absurd.
"You may have slight aches and pains, sneezing, coughing and may experience a sore throat first".
Hereby, amodiaquine failed to prevent phosphonylation and resulted only in a slight increase of AChE activity after removal of amodiaquine and soman.
At 3 a.m., I woke to a slight trickle of perspiration down my breast and felt the dull ache of the swollen mammary as I shifted my sleepy body -- the first signs of a pending period.
Ms. Shelly's mother, Elaine Levine, also spoke, sighing repeatedly as she said with a slight Queens inflection — her daughter was born Adrienne Levine in Queens — that she suffered the bottomless ache of a mother who had lost her child.
