Sentence examples for slim work from inspiring English sources
This slim work of historical investigation covers three subjects: a 14th-century voyage across the North Atlantic; a 16th-century publishing event; and a 21st-century quest.
Organisers try to whip up enthusiasm with fireworks and a massive digital screen flashing images of the bearded sage and his one slim work, the "Art of War", a 6,000-word 6,000-word
This slim work of fiction draws on Colm Tóibín's long-standing interest in Catholicism (his 1994 non-fiction book, "The Sign of the Cross," describes his travels through Catholic countries and his reckoning with his own Irish Catholic upbringing).
When his father finally had a slim work of scholarship published, he inscribed it to his 11-year-old son: "To my son Amos, in the hope he might carve out a place in our literature".
Third, investors may be reflecting that an unlikely coalition government with a slim working majority may not survive for long.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto is expected to retain his slim working majority in the lower house of congress after midterm elections dominated by discontent about corruption, gang violence and lacklustre economic growth.
In between an oversubscribed life of husband snatching, cuckoldry, embassy dinners, country-house weekends, couture fittings and restless peregrinations, Vilmorin produced 15 slim works of fiction, five of poetry and, as ghostwriter, Chanel's notoriously fallacious memoirs.
That forced Bevan to reveal his identity – he was not, as Smart had suggested, Fatboy Slim working under an alias – and triggered a litany of revenge fantasies for Goodman.
Sources admitted that a key hope was to boost the Tories' slim working majority of 17 in order to help pass Brexit-linked legislation such as the "great repeal bill" as well as plans for a future immigration system and domestic policies such as May's flagship grammar schools reform.
The government's already slim working majority - the smallest of any new government since the 1970s - has been further whittled down this year.
