One criticism made of Mr. Webb -- and it is made very quietly, by rival lawyers -- is that he tends to stretch himself too thin, taking on one major case after another as his popularity grows.
Her desire to be thin took on a new urgency.
Sometimes the documentary is a character study of Mr. Crocker, and sometimes it's a broad and paper-thin take on the commercialization of the Internet.
Rather than a rechargeable battery, it takes the fairly uncommon AAAA — a shorter, thinner take on the AAA.
The wafer-thin slices take on a delicacy that we don't normally associate with zucchini.
An Alsatian take on thin-crust pizza, laced liberally with sweet onions, works in a Puckish way, and the Wiener schnitzel delivers.
His voice, which is thin and precise, takes on new depth when it bends mischievously, or ekes into falsetto: "And what you gonna do with all that meat?" he wonders.
Watch out for black ice, which is a layer of ice so thin that it takes on the color of the roadway.
There's not a line you necessarily notice driving through the bland, suburban sprawl of Adelaide, but as the concentration of houses and strip malls thins, the countryside takes on a look for all the world like the bosky precincts of Napa Valley or western Sonoma.
Much later, with the crowd thinned out, the performers took on new roles: the dancers stood and clapped while José Moreno stood up from his cajón drum and danced.
And thin, tender pork chops Peking took on delightfully sweet notes from its marinade.
