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.
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".
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%).
On the one hand, "there is a type of person in the world who foolishly acts upon impulse without engaging in the slightest thought or reflection.
I remember watching TV growing up and, at the slightest whiff of two people engaging in even the most innocuous act of intimacy a kiss, a doe-eyed look that might lead to a kiss the channel would be changed huffily by my parents.
I remember watching TV growing up and, at the slightest whiff of two people engaging in even the most innocuous act of intimacy – a kiss, a doe-eyed look that might lead to kiss – the channel would be changed huffily by my parents.
Surprisingly, my first reaction was one of slight embarrassment, even though sitting solo or engaging in lone activities was anything but unfamiliar to me.
It was the first time I really felt, saw, registered, the black presence in an American city or, in the slightest way, became personally engaged with blacks.
