Sentence examples for slight affair from inspiring English sources
The phrase "slight affair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor or trivial event or situation, often with a connotation of being inconsequential. Example: "The meeting turned out to be a slight affair, with only a few topics discussed and no major decisions made."
Perhaps because the pair of books that started the palaver are such a slight affair — just over two hundred pages when pasted together.
Best known for its overture in which string players tap their bows on their music stands, the opera emerged as an amusing but slight affair about how Florville (the tenor Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore in brightly focused voice) outwits his lover's ward Gaudenzio (the excellent basso buffo Carlo Lepore) to win his beloved Sofia (the coloratura soprano Maria Aleida, in pleasant but rather thin voice).
This directorial debut from writer Hossein Amini is a handsomely mounted if somewhat slight affair, beautifully photographed by Marcel Zyskind, gorgeously dressed by Steven Noble, and well played by the central trio, whose shifting motivations and increasingly paranoid allegiances remain a matter of intrigue.
Even in 1911, "Spectre" must have been a slight affair; its reputation came from Vaslav Nijinsky's legendarily aerial, sensual performance as the spirit of the rose, who appears to a young girl (Tamara Karsavina in the original cast) after she has returned from a ball.
A Cat In Paris is a slight affair at just over 60 minutes and the nifty touches are better appreciated by adults.
But those other roles had been slight affairs, and in M, he was the closest thing to being the movie's star.
Iris is a slight, conventional affair by Maysles's standards, and a touch repetitive – endless bolts of fabric and panoplies of costume jewellery laid out for our appreciation.
Oren Rudavsky's movie, which he and Daniel Saul Housman adapted from Daniel Menaker's 1998 novel (parts of which first appeared in this magazine), is a slight and rueful affair, intermittently funny, about Jake's attempt to equip himself for the giving and receiving of love.
Their affair feels slight and plaintive, and the film — adapted by Rudavsky and Daniel Saul Housman from Daniel Menaker's novel — would curl up and die were it not for the bracing presence of Ernesto Morales Ian Holmm), Jake's Argentinean psychoanalyst.
It's actually rather slight, a handsome and defanged affair that could have been commissioned by Boris Johnson, perhaps suggesting their increasing comfort.
An opinion poll – taken in the two days after Closer magazine revealed Mr Hollande's affair – showed a slight upturn in the number of French people who approve of the President.
