Sentence examples for slight story from inspiring English sources

This slight story is an amusing and effective exploration of the "ugly duckling" premise.

The kind of imaginative leap you expect in a poem, it gives an otherwise slight story a small radiance.

The two leads excel in a graphic, if slight, story of hard-up scouse teens finding escape in sex.

Black Pat and Churchill cancel each other out, leaving a lighthearted and charming, if slight, story about finding love after grief.

After its world premiere last year at the Toronto film festival, Morris was disturbed that some reviewers called Tabloid a slight story.

Despite Judith Kaufmann's glowing urban photography and a marvelous performance from Hannelore Elsner, "Vivere" is a slight story whose raw undercurrents are constantly at odds with its fairy-tale sensibility.

The source material is far-flung, with Kafka and Poe as the outer acts, and a slighter story by Muriel Spark between them.

Also, Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin) by Sabahattin Ali, a seemingly slight love story, written in the 1940s but only translated from the original Turkish into English this year.

Jeffrey Tambor and Bill Hader and David Koechner and Sigourney Weaver are in there too; none of them really doing much but drawing attention away from how slight the story is.

But 28 years after the publication of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's slim graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, this slight, dated story – which Moore has since disowned – is still being celebrated, adapted and retold.

This is exactly what happens to its slight revenge story about global warming and Poseidon, in which the god is presented as a middle-aged bureaucrat, concerned that his brothers Zeus and Hades have got all the best jobs.