Is she OK now? "I still have a slight disfluency, sentences are spaced differently, but I was given a clean bill of health".
There's a slight proviso: the sentence ends with: "albeit with reluctance".
"The plot is a bit frail, but sentence by sentence, this slight, swift novel is precise, startling and lovely," Jennifer Reese wrote here in 2000.
As to why he pleaded guilty even to one count, Lee says that it was preferable to risking a slight chance of conviction and a possible life sentence.
The federal prison system does not have parole, but he can get a slight reduction in his sentence for good behavior.
In 2013 American juries handed out just 80 death sentences: a slight increase from the previous year, but still close to the lowest level in 40 years.
Even more than Peter Coyote, the actor who has become Burns's usual narrator, Burns makes a script sound like a eulogy read by a depressive, with every sentence suggesting slight disappointment.
Roth wrote a letter to the Review, suggesting a slight emendation of the sentence's all-important verb: "Claire Bloom, as the wronged ex-wife of Philip Roth, alleges him to have been......
Slights, negative words, sentences and thoughts -- anything negative about me.
When you get to that last sentence, with its slight, subjective salience, it's like coming across a grain elevator in Nebraska.
