Over the years, there have been many outrageous feuds: with the BBC, to which Ferguson has refused to speak since 2004, over a perceived slight of his son in a documentary; with match officials (on a weekly basis); and with rival managers, particularly Arsène Wenger of the London club Arsenal, who is yin to Ferguson's yang — deeply cultured, professorial and similarly insane to win.
Indeed, the artist's father, who took slight interest in his son after his disabling injuries, regarded his son's work as only "rough sketches" and could never accept the idea of a member of the aristocracy betraying his class by turning from a "gentleman" artist to a professional one.
Mr. Jindal's efforts only highlight, though, what is glaringly obvious to anyone who sees and hears the slight 36-year-old son of immigrants from India.
He bore a slight resemblance to my son, curly-haired, with the same calculated slovenliness in dress, his backpack half-open.
Equally perverse was the award of best actor to Olivier Gourmet, whose chief feature in the Dardennes brothers' touching but slight new film, "The Son", was the back of his head in claustrophobic close-up.
Son is slight, barely 5 feet tall and brimming with competitive passion for business and leisure alike.
Son is slight, not much more than a meter and a half tall and brimming with competitive passion for business and leisure alike.
Archie told HuffPost Live's Nancy Redd that she noticed slight changes in her son's behavior before he died.
Asked if he felt even the slightest rivalry with his son — whose pounding, arm-swinging style had already emerged as a fan favorite as his role grew before that New Jersey show — the elder Mr. Weinberg said no. "It's total pure love and pride," he said.
The Son is a slight book by Montenegrin writer Andrej Nikolaidis (translated by Will Firth for Istros Books).
