Sentence examples for slim yet from inspiring English sources
The chances that the two artists ever would have crossed paths are slim, yet they share a fundamental passion: They are comparably obsessive wrappers.
"I began to realise that he was a very good-looking young man, tall and slim, yet broad in the shoulders.
As material for a full-length film, especially a silent one, this feels perilously slim; yet Yasujiro Ozu's "I Was Born, But...," which dates from 1932 and which will be screened at IFC Center June 25-July 8, is a master class — one of the director's earliest — in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives.
In London, the chances of going for a run up misty golden hills may be slim, yet having a touch of Veneto to hand is not that difficult – as long as there is a shop nearby with a refrigerator and a stock of chilled, misty-glass bottles of prosecco.
As material for a full-length film, especially a silent one, this feels perilously slim; yet Yasujiro Ozu's "I Was Born, But...," which dates from 1932 and which will be screened at IFC Center June 25-July 8, is a master class one of the director's earliest in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives.
Similarly, openSUSE 12.1 includes support for ownCloud, "slim yet powerful private cloud software".
Most analysts said that the August margin between the two was the slimmest yet seen.
JVC also developed a slimmer yet efficient power-supply substrate and employed a direct-mount configuration for it on the LCD panel backlight unit with a fan-less heat dissipation system to further reduce power consumption.
And last but not least, the SD770 IS takes 10-megapixel photos and "boasts the thinnest body of any optically image stabilized ELPH model ever produced, featuring a slimmer yet higher capacity battery pack".
E-readers are better for hauling around than heavy books in general, but the lighter, slimmer, yet surprisingly sturdy Oasis is easy to throw in a bag – the molded polymer housing is made to take a beating – and can give you access to more than 4.4 million books through Amazon's ever-expanding list of titles (up from 90,000 in 2007); along with a modest 4 GB storage on the device.
That would make them into slim, trim, yet still the poor fighting machines we want them to be.
