Sentence examples for slight and even from inspiring English sources

But I see it as more than a "perceived" slight, and even while there may be larger issues more worthy of bigger battles, this one is important.

Yet their frames are slight and even flimsy by Western standards, possibly a sign of Russia's straitened cultural institutions; they give the show a pleasantly unassuming, uncluttered directness that is just right for its scale.

At 30 wt% PEI loading, the increase in temperature from 30 to 75 °C has a slight and even negative effect on the sorption capacity; while at 65 wt% PEI loading, it has a significant, positive effect.

The patient was slight and — even with severe injuries to her head — strikingly pretty.

Guardian staff EwanMurray 10 April 2013 2 34pm @colesy86 - I have only ever given it slight attention, and even then just to watch Palmer/Player/Nicklaus first-hand (it's right in the middle of my preview-writing time)... 2.36pm BST Ian Haysom writes: Tell us something about Augusta we don't get from seeing it on TV.

Chopin was of slight build, and even in early childhood was prone to illnesses.

I had no intestinal problems -- no diarrhea or vomiting -- but was running a slight fever, and even getting up and dressing was difficult.

Soon after we started driving we were going around a very slight corner and, even though I'd slowed down in anticipation, I clipped one of the parked cars on the left of me.

"Having performed such leaps of logic, the writers apparently didn't have much strength left for the weekly plot, which is notably slight and unbelievable, even for a TV legal drama," Mike Hale wrote in The Times.

Having performed such leaps of logic, the writers apparently didn't have much strength left for the weekly plot, which is notably slight and unbelievable, even for a TV legal drama.

The first, the one expounded in many guidebooks, holds that casual carpet buyers will inevitably get ripped off and that, given the gaping economic disparity between the West and the carpet-making rest, the damage will be slight - and perhaps even a justified kind of post-colonial revenge.