This ever-slight journey involved the performers screeching, moaning and singing songs in flat, off-key voices, all the while contorting their faces in cartoonish expressions.
It was always the slight recklessness of the journey – getting drunk, losing passports, causing moderate amounts of trouble and having no idea which country we would travel to next – that made it so much fun.
In the same year, Goethe spent two months in and around Venice, and in the autumn he accompanied Charles Augustus to Silesia and Kraków, but the literary rewards of these journeys were slight: distichs in the Classical manner on his experiences, some of them bitterly satirical of contemporary political and intellectual developments.
The stroll coupled with the slight greenhouse effect made it a warm journey.
Halfway through the mile-long journey came an ever-so-slight pause, prompting Mr. McGreevey to remark, "We wanted a very realistic experience," as he recalled being stuck on a malfunctioning PATH train during the Christmas holidays one year.
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.
Many were market women who made the long trip to and from Dar es Salaam to buy cheap Chinese-made goods on the coast – the slightest profit margin justifying the 1,200-mile 1,200-mile journey.
(Three years ago? Four?) The sound system is playing oldies music, lending a slight dance-band-on-the-Titanic effect to the journey.
Along my journey, I began seeing that with a slight push, some direction, and a compelling story, not only I, but all individuals on the margins, especially young people, can realize their potential.
In that sense it marks a slight step up from its predecessor, given that An Unexpected Journey was saddled with a treasure trove of exposition and explication that's largely unnecessary here.
Niyonshuti comes from Rwanda, and he was on his way to London, and it's only a slight metaphorical stretch to say that he was making the entire journey by bike.
