Nowadays, buyers tend to be real collectors, with the "slightly irrational desire to own the item".
Not for them the straightforward spoof, but, instead, a slightly creepy desire to have it both ways — to inject new life into noir, but also to laugh behind their hands at its antique solemnity, and to urge us to follow suit.
This dampens, slightly, the desire to go out, and can also account for growing scarcity among their ranks of carefree Spicoli-types.
It's like mowing the lawn: cut the tops (and the roots, when you root prune a houseplant) when they get a bit larger than desired to slightly less than desired, let the plant grow again, cut it back again, and so on.
Sol Steinmetz, retired but tireless rex of lex, tells me that "attempts to justify quickie definitions often disguise the slightly more practical desire to save space".
"Some lenders expected to tighten credit scoring criteria slightly, reflecting their desire to ensure that any increase in lending would adhere to [their] risk appetite," the Bank said.
Mr. Evans has advocated price-level targeting, a strategy that would allow inflation to run slightly above the desired level in the future to make up for inflation's being too low today.
This makes that the confidence level of the pWCET estimates obtained with (R^{prime }_{10}) is slightly lower than desired.
The effect of T es is slightly reducing the desired damping ratio of the target mode, which will be verified in later sections.
The subscales SF and AA showed internal consistency values that were slightly below the desired value of.70, with SS's alpha = .64 and AA's alpha = .63.63
Displacement ventilation systems typically introduce fresh air at or near floor level at a temperature slightly below the desired room temperature.
