Sentence examples for slight and light from inspiring English sources

In it, the British art historian Julian Stallabrass wonders how it is "that Lawler's art, which is sly, slight and light, quick, jokey, agile, epigrammatic, and perhaps subversive, has elicited a literature that is slow, ponderous, grinding, and heavy".

Although Ramm (RSC) and Lesser (BBC2) are physically distinct presences – the former broad and heavy; the latter slight and light – their Thomas Mores are both dark, sneaky schemers, because that is Mantel's revisionist interpretation of the man who had previously been dramatically immortalised as a saint by Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons.

A later recording,Turn This Mutha Out, lacked the Taylor touch and was slight and light by comparison, but it gave Muhammad an underground hit with  the David Matthews- and Tony Sarafino-written "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This", which has been regularly sampled ever since, most notably by Jamiroquai.

In May, Alvarez will take on the slighter and lighter punching Amir Khan rather than take on Golovkin.

Here, in order to get compact expansions we consider slight orthotropy (ϵ⪡1) and light fluid loading (μ⪡1).

This vegan version may upset southern traditionalists, but their slight but pleasing tang and light texture honors the original without pork fat or harm to pig.

Some were brutal: "We found the heroine as boring as her husband had"; "Your stories are light, slight and trite".

Some of the art is light, slight, and MTV-ish, but artists like Cui Xiuwen, Xu Zhen, Li Songhua, Xu Tan, Meng Jin and Dong Wensheng give us a lot.

Riley seems to be confronting her own problems here, and again when she examines the diagonal structure of Veronese's Adoration of the Kings, a composition bisected by a slanting shaft of light, slight and filmy but "strong enough to swing the entire movement of the Adoration in a slow arc – like the clapper of a great bell".

The regions with slight, light and medium vulnerabilities comprised 79.49% of the total area.

Degree of calving difficulty was classified into 4 categories: 0 (unassisted), 1 (slight with light intervention), 2 (moderate with mild traction) and 3 (severe with heavy traction).