Sentence examples for slim story from inspiring English sources

Talk about a slim story, a flattened arc.

Much of the American media duly ignored the Slim story, presumably waiting for Forbes to move.

Mr. Ackerman also invented a slim story outline for the cast, complete with oddball character descriptions.

Working as a screenwriter for the first time after years of seeing his novels successfully adapted to the screen, McCarthy is stretching his powers of language and mood – and, all too quickly, stretching his slim story and cast of characters way too far.

LaBute's slim story, lacking dramatic tension, strains credulity even for believers.

Brookner would, I'm guessing, have been slightly amazed at the teenage me who adored beyond words her first three novels (A Start in Life, Look at Me and Providence), slim stories that I devoured in quick succession.

"Post-Christian" and "nihilist" seem to suit the opera's slim, sketchy story: Boy courts Girl (the only names given); Girl first rebuffs Boy's advances, then embraces them with an unsettling mix of missionary zeal and conflicted desire.

Last time out, DeLillo delivered "Underworld," a leviathan of a novel that made grand pronouncements about postwar America; here he scales back in every way, offering a slim ghost story.

- CF. The cover of Joy William's slim new story collection is perplexing: four German Shepherds sit contentedly in a rowboat, lost, it seems, on a rough sea.

The Animal Medical Center's slim, nine-story building, constructed in the early 1960s, has the unfortunate stark and artificially lighted character of many structures from that era.

With construction of the slim, four-story building on 171st Street near Amsterdam Avenue to begin in the spring, the 500 members of F.Y.I. will, as customary, get what they want.