Sentence examples for slight world from inspiring English sources

It is a slight world, but one that is alive on its own theatrical terms.

The true power here lies less in the sometimes slight world-building than in the story's philosophical underpinnings and the personalities of the main characters.

PAGE A6 Sarkozy Slights World Leaders A6 OBAMA WANTS GUN TREATY RATIFIED On the first day of a four-day swing through Latin America, President Obama arrived in Mexico City for a visit that was intended to demonstrate what he called "a new era" in United States-Mexican relations.

In "Her," the new film by Spike Jonze, we're taken, as Jonze has described it, to the "slight future" — a world just at the change point when artificial intelligence has become capable of interacting with humans more or less seamlessly.

The breed population continued to hover around 1 percent of the total population, with a slight increase after World War II and a decrease to almost zero new registrations in the 1980s.

The question is whether we have created the machinery for resolving even the slightest of the world's innumerable difficulties.

If you want to become a real on-line maven without slighting the amazing world of bulletin boards, FidoNet and so forth, find a copy of Bernard Aboba's "Online User's Encyclopedia" (Addison-Wesley, $34.95).

Her friends attributed the slight to the internecine world of academic politics.

A slight return to the world of Lexicon gave them the hit When Smokey Sings in 1987.

Until slight disagreements between the world's best mass measurements are resolved, the BIPM will act as an arbiter.

He helped patent what has been described, with only slight exaggeration, as "the world's most powerful nonnuclear explosive": an Astrolite bomb.