The word "svelte" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something (especially a person or their figure) that is slender, graceful and attractive. Example sentence: She looked stunning in her svelte evening gown.
The svelte and buffed cricketer of today is almost literally half the man his predecessor was.And am I right that heightened professionalism has left less room in the changing room for entertaining oddballs such as one of my favourite batsmen, the straggle-haired and fidgety Derek Randall of Nottinghamshire?
SINCE the second iteration of Apple's svelte iPad tablet computer was unveiled to the public a little over a week ago, the blogosphere has been abuzz with predictions about the demise of the PC.
WHILE art historians agree that standards of beauty have changed over time witness the plump shapes of Rubens, versus the svelte forms of Klimt many scientists beg to differ.
Having been all but counted out as a serious presidential contender for 2012, she changed all that on Memorial Day, rumbling over Memorial Bridge on the back of a Harley ("I love that smell of emissions"), svelte in black leather amid a sea of pot-bellied Vietnam veterans biking into the capital for their annual "Rolling Thunder" commemoration.
Ms Ephron, though striking and svelte all her life, worried in the niggling way of women that her breasts were too small, her neck too crêpy ("I Feel Bad About My Neck" was the title of one book), her skin dry and her purse just wrong.
She who had dreamed of being First Lady of Cuba, svelte, gracious, fluent in English from her education at elite girls' academies in Washington and Pennsylvania, was now another nobody in a country that was impoverished, grey and falling into ruins.And yet as before she would help in other ways, for her love of Fidel was unaltered by his behaviour.
Hélène Delangle, born into a humble family in 1900, left her dusty village in her late teens for the glamour of theatrical Paris where she worked as a nude model, a cabaret dancer and performed a high-wire act.Hellé Nice, as she called herself, went down a storm in the Paris music halls with her heart-stopping smile and svelte figure often unclothed.
First, there is the problem of trying on clothes in front of irritatingly svelte young shop assistants an ordeal many plus-sized shoppers would rather not endure.
As a result, it carves up the Earth's atmosphere into svelte cells 16km square and 137 layers deep, compared with a bulky 27km and a mere 64 layers for the old GFS.
The parts his team is making are more svelte, even elegant.
But given a slimmer case than even today's svelte model, that is probably wishful thinking.
