Instead, it is an angry, emotional and often repetitive attack on a host of targets, including consumer culture ("happiness through acquisition"), the church ("happiness companies"), politics ("we blithely cheer its increasing demise") and, most of all, those bland, robotic happy types, with their "paper-thin minds".
Ever smaller / in my mind, thin as a dropped stick of gum.
The word "hunger" calls to mind thin, starving children in developing countries, but in the US today, the real picture of undernutrition is different.
Keep in mind thinner fabrics are better suited for more active sports, said Chris Hawson, a technical-clothing buyer at Paragon Sports, in New York.
By the way, if you wondered what "The Crimson Edge" refers to, Ms. Zeidenstein had in mind the thin red line on the horizon at sunset.
It's also a beautiful place to stay overnight — for $50 — if you don't mind a thin mattress and rustic accommodations.
The relationships that hold the space station's many dimensions together not merely the banal and predictable romance of Valerian and Laureline but the politics of the space station are simple, the mind games thin, the rhetoric unpersuasive.
Nakamura is known in the ice world for taking risks with his pieces, and Prickly Reception was no exception, with the ice for the porcupine quills so thin it boggles the mind that they didn't break off during the competition.
Widmerpool was played by Simon Russell Beale; in a generally critical review of the first film of the series, Thomas Sutcliffe in The Independent refers to Beale's performance as particularly good, bearing in mind the "thin ledges of characterisation" the script provides to the cast.
Some that come to mind are: skinny, thin, anorexic, boney, olive oil-like, gangly, lean, skeletal, rail thin, skin and bones... but what do we call a woman who is at a healthy weight?
