Sentence examples for slight but engaging from inspiring English sources

Bar Balto, by Faiza Guene, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Chatto & Windus, £11.99) Slight but engaging, the third novel from this young French-Algerian writer is set in Making-Ends-Meet, a shabby suburb on the outskirts of Paris full of barrack-like homes for citizens who are very definitely "other ranks".

Slight but engaging (1 30).

This slight but engaging show displays selections by each.

A slight but engaging look at Generation X, it demonstrated Stiller's yearning for grand compositions.

The game itself is simple but engaging.

Dubbed "Little Mo" by an affectionate press, Connolly was deceptively slight and engaging off court, but in action she displayed awesome power in her drives and a distractingly expressionless face.

The idea is simple but immediately engaging.

Distribution of the GPs in the 9 profiles is shown in Figure 5: uninterested (8.1%), uninterested-passive (5.4%), passive (9%), slighted-passive (18.9%), slighted (10.8%), slighted-engaged (16.2%), engaged (18%), atypical-engaged (4.5%) and uninterested-engaged (1.8%).

Slight, but not without charm.

His writing is slight but sinuous.

The effects are slight but noticeable.