Sentence examples for slight but charming from inspiring English sources

They add a slight but charming whimsy to this cheerfully pluralistic show.

In terms that Richard Hoover might understand, "Little Miss Sunshine," a slight but charming movie, is a modest winner.

After the war the two moved to the south of France, where they concentrated on drawing and painting, producing slight but charming scenes of beach and village life.

The Russian-inflected program (Feb. 3 and Feb. 7) includes Peter Martins's slight but charming "Zakouski" and two works by Balanchine, the bracing "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" and "Allegro Brillante," which the ballerina Maria Tallchief admired for its "expansive Russian romanticism".

After the war the two moved to the south of France, where they apparently stopped making prints to concentrate on drawing and painting, producing slight but charming scenes of beach and village life.

The idea, the journalist's idea, was that they were going to talk about their friendship, the films they have made together, going way back to 1985 when, both unknowns, they made the slight but charming romantic comedy The Sure Thing.

The orchestra also sounded great in Turina's somewhat film-scorish but lively short symphonic poem "La Procesion del Rocio," and in Rodrigo's slight but rather charming "Concierto Andaluz" (1967), a concerto for four guitars, performed winningly by the guitar quartet los Romeros, which has had three generations of guitar-playing Romero men in its ranks.

That is but a sampling of the wit and wisdom that Valerie Breiman has managed to pump into her slight but bright and charming romantic comedy, "Love and Sex".

9 P.M. (IFC) LOVE & SEX (2000) Famke Janssen, right, plays a writer for a women's magazine who reflects on her dating misadventures in what Lawrence Van Gelder, writing in The New York Times, called a "slight but bright and charming romantic comedy," directed by Valerie Breiman.

Griffin describes it as "catchy but slight" and "a slight if charming little ditty", but criticizes the decision to include it on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 3 rather than the "masterpiece" composition "Sign on the Cross".

The van never moves, and after a month in one place you wonder if it will ever start again; but this slight yet charming piece is all about the journey rather than the final destination.