slightness
IPA: sɫˈaɪtnʌs
noun
- The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
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Examples of "slightness" in Sentences
- There is, to be sure, a slightness to Wife's pleasures.
- Unlike Ali, however, Obama occasionally acknowledges the slightness of his racial traumas.
- I was not merely being polite in expressing the slightness of my difference with Dr. Bauder.
- He was young, probably the same age as Will, and the impression of youth was heightened by his slightness.
- So he gives us the colour of a leaf, the shape of a leaf: and most importantly, the essence of a leaf, which comes of its slightness, its vulnerability to gusts.
- Spines of iron, then, despite Sweeney's self-deprecating stammer and Sobule's diminutive stature (she's taken to playing a very small guitar, possibly to de-emphasize her slightness).
- The slightness and frailty of her frame are simply too at odds with the grandeur of her costumes and the enormity of her hair, making her appear worryingly skeletal, and far too youthful to make the supposed age of her character even remotely believable.
- She turned to Amber, who took her up in his arms and set her in the saddle of one of the stallions; who, his bridle being released by the trooper, promptly leaped away and danced a spirited saraband with his shadow, until Naraini, with a strength that seemed incredible when one recalled the slightness of her wrists, curbed him in and taught him sobriety.
- The "slightness" of the ribbons holding the pictures together can be compared to the temporal, narrative dimension of all writing, which Darwin finds many ways to downplay in favour of the synchronically viewable pictures which — as in his repeated use of extended similes introduced by "So" or "Hence" — he often asks us to juxtapose and compare quasi-spatially rather than merely as diachronically successive.