The only unpleasant emotion he conveyed -- and it was very slight, in view of the circumstances -- was frustration.
Despite the movie's early references to infections in Paris and New York, the possibility of a global epidemic seems slight in view of the character of the fictitious virus.
One of the few jarring notes at the ceremony came from supporters of Mrs. Thatcher, who called President Obama's decision not to send any senior members of his administration to attend the funeral a slight, in view of Mrs. Thatcher's influential role as President Ronald Reagan's partner in facing down the Soviet Union.
Every untoward sexual episode of a candidate's life will be uncovered and exposed, every behavioral flaw, every teenage caper, every past speech, essay, email, conversation, promise and pronouncement with the slightest contrarian view of the candidate's present stand will be unearthed, recycled, attacked and reinterpreted to fuel media attention.
The desire to please is also explicit in the way Chambers's compositions sometimes repeat with slight variations — views of West Point, Niagara Falls, Lake George and Mount Vesuvius (which Chambers never saw).
Countries making up the Western world portray net favorable views on their own leaders, slight negative views of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India and President Dilma Rouseff in Brazil, and are deeply unenthusiastic about the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, and Russia.
He said there might be a slight delay "in view of the extremely complex situation and highly timely nature of their visit".
She dreams of people who conjure a touch of grace with a glance of empathy, a wink of recognition, but her fantasies are as narrow as the realities that she depicts; these moments of practical magic and twinkling goodness are a slight and saccharine view of the human animal.
They've not altered in the slightest the thumbs-down view of Mr. Blagojevich held by James Matsumoto, a retired WTTW-Ch.
The umpire, perched far behind the 6-foot-6 behemoths on the offensive line, would not seem to have as clear a view of the slight twitches of the head and hands as he would from behind the defense.
In fact, Salinger had recently learned that the magazine was postponing publication of "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" in view of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor — it would not be published until 1946 — and he knew that he too would soon be drawn into the war.
