A half-dozen works in a strictly no-frills installation feels a mite thin, but a handful of Velazquezes packs more of a punch than a museumful of work by nearly any of his contemporaries.
Ray Crews, another mechanic, had a handful of thin metal straps, which he carefully threaded, one at a time, into the back of the 800-pound behemoth he was servicing nearby.
By the time he recanted, it was too late, as all his summer festival bookings had disappeared into thin air like a handful of glitter at a gay bar.
The foreigners and non-Muslims, who had already been leaving La Goulette by the 1960s, thinned to only a handful.
He faced a big (though not quite full) crowd, armed with only a pretty good voice and a handful of rather thin, slow jams.
James Blake, the beneficiary of much buzz this year, played an immersive, deep-throb set on Friday; the crowd thinned out noticeably after a handful of songs).
With the aid of a long shaggy-dog story involving a group of whippet-thin marathon runners and a handful of considerably plumper delegates to an International Festival of Sausage, you will undoubtedly get closer than ever to understanding the powerful technique he calls "the hydrogen bomb of statistics".
But few people had more than a handful of tickeys, the thin gray threepence coins that bought two cigarettes.
A small gratis antipasto plate — wedges of cheese drizzled with honey, thin slices of salami and a handful of jumbo olives — also delighted.
He believes working-class characters are increasingly thin on the ground, while the handful of black writers who are feted often explore sweeping tales of immigrant experience, rather than domestic tales rooted firmly in one place and time.
