slightness in a sentence
Examples
- The knock on " Chicago " has always been its slightness, its wisp of a story and candied ruminations on the disposability of celebrity.
- In fact, the blandness and slightness of the writing in " Kiss Me, Guido " may be the very things that could make it mainstream.
- Croghan's winning combination of engaging characters and clever dialogue ( the film-literate will have a blast ) helps us see past the film's inherent slightness.
- It is a slightness that resembles her mother's in the memorable photograph in which, dressed in aviator's flight gear, she is standing next to her husband.
- For all the cuddly slightness of his delivery, these songs are lushly rendered and pool in stream-of-consciousness reflection that's more meaningful as a whole ."
- These early machines suffered from slightness in the drive wheels, axles and valve gear, and from unequal distribution of weight, a serious problem given the questionable track they ran on.
- But most striking is the essential loneliness and intellectual slightness of a man who had few if any intimate friendships beyond that with his wife and was blissfully unquestioning about himself and his beliefs.
- Aykroyd's veep is played in amusingly Quayle-like fashion by John Heard as Lemmon and Garner almost succeed in charming us through the slightness of " My Fellow Americans ."
- Both because and despite its stylistic variety and the frequent slightness of its material, this exhibition evokes to a remarkable degree a time and a place, as well as an atmosphere of genteel progressiveness.
- This new Showtime movie, which premieres Sunday night at 8, plods forward into slightness and cliche as it portrays the strange abduction of the Rat Packer's 19-year-old son.