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698 examples of Slight in a sentence

Not moderate nor slight talent.
And, strangely enough, he bears a slight resemblance to Reno (Jimmy Laine, aka writer-director Abel Ferrara), the starving artist driven to madness in "The Driller Killer."
Her wishes begin to come true, but they all have a slight twist to them when they do.
If you want it, and it does have its charms however slight, get it off TCM.
Visually rich, somewhat slow paced, and hung together by varied amounts and quality of connection between the characters and a slight plot, the film manages to hold audience attention and intrigues the viewer.
(Contains slight spoilers) Ian McEwan's gripping and disturbing psychological thriller has, alas, been turned into a frustratingly dull movie.
The first vignette "Breakfast" seems to be a slight repeat of his earlier movie "Et Cetera".
Horrible, completely ridiculous with a not so slight touch of vulgarity.
This is where Eddie stole must of his jokes, and most of his style, only one slight difference: Richard Pryor came first, and it's still better than anything Eddie has ever done.
(Slight Spoilers) Badly disjointed horror movie involving a 1,000 year old African mummy Nigerian nobleman Gatanebo who's time has come for him to came back from the dead.
Even with its constant twists, it felt like they were there to cover how slight the premise was.
Give or take slight exaggeration, it portrays a clear example of the media's influences of mindless western masses to an immoral act that the majority of human instinct should be able to over power.
Extremely slight film-version of Harry Segall's play "Heaven Can Wait" stars Robert Montgomery as a boxer who receives an unexpected transfer of his soul by a novice angel who thought the boxer was to die in a plane accident.
Just one slight "downer" .... the home video release of this title seems to be shorter than the TV version.
put this on the long list of movies that had a slight potential of being good, but ended up being terrible.
The game is afoot and along the way (with a slight tongue in cheek) we learn where Holmes picked up some of his more famous trademarks and most infamous nemesis.
Dying for a quarter pound of weed seems a little excessive for a jail, however, if only that had happened the suffering could have turned to slight laughter with mild nausea.
And as an adult viewer, I have to admit that it's pretty goofy and unconvincing, in that you have to believe some fairly silly, improbable things to get even a slight tingle up the spine from it.
More than simply a cute cartoon, I interpret "I Love to Singa" as a slight allusion to the generation gap that seemed to be taking hold in the '30s (which was itself nothing compared to what happened in the '60s).
It is slight at best, involving a he-man (Scott) inheriting a designing house in Paris.
Writer/director Richard Casey here in this case completely failed to put the two genres in the blender together and what came out is an embarrassing amateur horror production with retarded jokes and over-the-top clichéd situations that aren't the least bit funny or inventive; not even when you're in a slight state of drunk or stoned.
At least he's really good looking which gives a slight compensation!
He underlines every other line with a semi smile, a slight pressure of the mouth as if he didn't trust the power of his own delivery.
Following the commercial success of "11 days, 11 nights", this was marketed as a sequel, but it is rather more like a remake, and it is a slight improvement on the original.
It's not nearly as dank and sadistically toned as the first one - actually, it has a more of a "sitcom" kind of atmosphere going on with the obvious sound stages and slight melodramatic touches - but there's some pretty crazy effects.
With a slight bit of luck, the water even colors a bit red.
Shrubbery in the background rustles indicating a slight breeze.
Surely they have seen many art films that are more profoundly affecting than this gorgeous, but (in the big scheme of the motion picture universe) somewhat slight animated flick.
My favorite is Lou reprising the 'whispering threat' business from 'Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap' where he challenges the bad guys to a no-holds-barred fight, but from a distance where they can't see him and in a voice so slight they can't hear him.
Briskly directed by Burt Kennedy, with a slight, inane cookie cutter script by Jimmy Sangster, crude cinematography by Victor Salzis and Alan Stensvold, a jaunty hillbilly bluegrass country score by Reed (who also sings the rousing theme song "Breakin' Loose") and the expected copious slapstick fist fights and wacky car chases, this totally inconsequential piece of made-for-TV piffle makes for a perfectly enjoyable diversion.
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