The Taliban, which controlled fifty thousand troops, were thinly dispersed and never in total control of the country.
"The picture was thinly painted and never intended to be finished," said Mr. Christiansen, who says he believes it was actually a study.
The whole plot is impelled by Glass's paternal loyalty to Hawk, but that is thinly sketched, and I never quite believed in them as father and child.
Some of the minor characters are thinly drawn (particularly Luvlee, who never manifests the femme fatale qualities her plot function seems to require).
Without her challenge to what she called "the 'serious' contemporary hetero-male novel … a thinly veiled Story of Me", Sheila Heti might never have asked How Should a Person Be?, and Ben Lerner might never have written Leaving the Atocha Station.
Many times we've seen films whose villains were thinly veiled references to a living person, but never (except perhaps in wartime) has the veil of fictionality been removed so completely and gleefully.
Lorca never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, but the thinly veiled homoerotic imagery in his work and consistent rumours throughout his life meant that it was broadly recognised.
Never give backhanded compliments — compliments that contain a thinly-veiled insult or a compliment to yourself.
The company is thinly traded, and so analysts stay away; because analysts stay away, investors never hear about the company.
