Word: slenderized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...girlfriend at the time liked big, bulky football players much better than skinny, slender basketball players,” classmate Sonny McCracken recalls. “Funny thing is, she actually goes to Yale. So, yeah, her team has to deal with Peter solely because she wanted Peter to be a football player, not a basketball player...
...Judy Blundell A delicate, raven-haired young woman applies lipstick as she peers fearfully into the darkness that surrounds her. What could threaten such an innocent-looking girl? A past lover? A crazed suitor? A malicious rumor? Speaking of which, she seems to bear a passing resemblance to another slender brunette—I believe they call her “Blair?”And why, for that matter, do I even know the “Gossip Girl” characters’ names? I’ll never tell... THE 19th WIFE by David Ebershoff A pale...
...should be happy. “I am happy,” she said aloud, with a shaky vehemence. “Ecstatic!”Just then, the door to Frederick’s chambers opened and her husband came tra-la-la-ing down the hall, as slender and pale as a maiden. He saw Felicity and paused, his eyes filled with a sweetness that Felicity had never seen.“I hope you are enjoying your tryst with that nitwit of a biddy with her skirts hiked up about her waist,” said Felicity...
...throughout the summer. Pumpkins. Pumpkins. Those lewd gourds! Oh, her sweet petunias! Alas, her darling rosebush! The almost indecently large seeds lay, garishly white and pale and smooth, like grubs, upon the fresh soil, not two feet from her flowers. With a sudden cry of anguish, Roxanna flung her slender white hand into the dirt and flung the seeds aside. She patted the rumpled earth back into face, smoothing it as if soothing a child. “Get your pumpkins out of my flowerbed,” she said. Wonderingly, she held up her hands for the gardener...
...long until she made her way to Greenwich Village at a time when residence all but required one to be a bard or a banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum the banjo (and a 12-string Gibson guitar to boot), but Karen Dalton didn?...