Word: slenderness
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...clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands in the shadows with a pistol in her slender hand. Burma passes...
Take this exchange with Summers appointee and slender Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
...Sinhalese group in the next elections. Those elections could be held at any time: constitutionally, the President has almost arbitrary power to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve Parliament. While Wickremesinghe is credited with bringing about peace, scandals featuring politicians linked to his party could gnaw at his already slender parliamentary majority in new elections. Mahinda Rajapakse, a prominent opposition politician and close ally of the President, insists that his own party will not stop peace negotiations if it comes to power: "We will keep talking with the LTTE, but on different terms." Many observers, though, fear that those changed...
...term for how to rotate the oars as they cycle through the water and air. It’s also harder to tip with two people, although the huskier boats, called “wherries,” which beginners use, are usually more difficult to tip than the slender, long boats used by racers. The water-weary need not fret, however, because beginners are taught in rowing simulator “tanks” until the end of the season in late October...
Even the eccentricities of Mannerism, the 16th century style that we generally group him within, can't fully account for him. His figures may be elongated in the Mannerist style, but the swanning courtiers in Pontormo or Parmigianino, most of them as slender as greyhounds, are nothing like El Greco's rough-cut saints, famished men with skin the color of split timber and stiff robes draped around them like crumpled fenders. And while the Mannerist palette, all that coy bump and grind of pink and yellow, is calculated sometimes to startle, the explosive oddity of El Greco is something...