Yet all he can offer the reader is some thin, unsatisfying thoughts about "the ultimate unknowability of events" and "a still darker mystery, that of a man's character".
Someone with a calculator was inevitably going to find the many holes in the tax plan, given the tissue-thin level of thought that the campaign put into it, at a time when Mr. Romney's primary opponents were proposing even worse nonsense like the 9-9-9 plan.
Above the clouds at 3,000 metres, Kulmhotel Gornergrat appeals to those who like the idea of an Alpine hut, but shiver at the thought of thin mattresses and icy water.
By applying the new model of WEDM-CNC system, the machine tool controller becomes extremely simple in accordance with the thought of thin client in the network-computing environment.
Yes, the Thin White Duke, long thought to be retired, has been quietly and without fanfare working on his first new work in a decade.
Miller's official portrait shows a boyish cadet with a long thin face untroubled by thoughts of the future.
I could feel the effect of the alcohol, it lay like a thin membrane over my thoughts, a canopy of mixed feelings.
I've always maintained that my all-too-sustained advertising career never taught me a goddam thing about writing, but Dutch would claim that ad copy's need for compression and simplification (you get in and out fast, so as not to bore or confuse or provoke second thoughts) helped thin out and tighten his prose.
Princeton Vanguard, he said, "will have to show that there is some secondary meaning to the term 'pretzel crisp' out there in the relevant population that goes beyond simply provoking thoughts of thin pretzels that are crispy and refer to something specific".
With thoughts of thin crusts, weighty beats, exquisite toppings and one of the great unsung clubbing destinations on our mind we draw things to a close, albeit safe in the knowledge that a trip to southern Italy probably won't be too far away.
