Sentence examples for slight than from inspiring English sources

There is no greater slight than not to be chosen for what Mr. Alessandrini has unashamedly called an attack and "a good shellacking".

I'm hard-pressed to think of a worse slight than the media figures who have disregarded the embattled white working class for decades now beseeching the country to have sympathy for them.

The US poster for Stephen Frears's film about the life and death of the promiscuous gay playwright Joe Orton suffered a more subtle slight than that visited on Pride – more of a fudging than a disavowal of content.

Review: 'Now You See Me 2' is more slight than sleight of hand.

For an artist as huge as R. Kelly, being snubbed is a bigger slight than being panned.

It appeared to be even more common in Experiment 4, where symptoms of take-all in the first wheat had been very slight, than in Experiment 3, where there was slightly more disease.

It's more than slight, less than 50/50, but certainly a possibility.

It's easy to mistake Geoffrey Naufft's "Next Fall" for being slighter than it is.

I have seen Rhoda pull out her longest knives over fainter slights than this.

The practical side to that curve is much slighter than the emotional one.

Despite this virtuosity, the essays collected here are notably slighter than his usual output.