Word: slight
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...byways and outlines, among other things, the changing reactions to Gothic art and the problem of its conservation for later generations of antiquaries and romantics in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is an anxious longing to put everything connected with the Middle Ages on view, no matter how slight its aesthetic import. One half-expects to find Piers Plowman's left clog in the next vitrine. It is a gigantic, semidigestible omnium-gatherum, and the visitor needs time and shoe leather to deal with...
...standards set by Nakasone will be difficult. Newspaper commentators have already compared Takeshita unfavorably with the Prime Minister. The five-year reign of the dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected in the 1960s, he would have...
Though the hats came from two sections over, I took it as a slight on the entire student section. We won the first game, but I was highly angered by the apparent double standard: penalize the home team, not the visitor...
...AIDS virus as those who were lesion free. "An ulcer breaks the integrity of the skin and allows infected blood to come into contact with a sexual partner," says Cameron. Thus, he adds, controlling treatable diseases like herpes and educating uncircumcised men about their risk could make a slight dent in the so far incurable scourge...
...similar attempt to ease the greenhouse effect by imposing limits on CO2 and other emissions is unlikely. John Topping, president of the Washington- based Climate Research Institute, argues that adjustments in agricultural production, like limiting the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, would have only a slight effect. A more important step would be to protect the tropical rain forests, a move that would certainly be resisted by developers. Obviously, the most far-reaching step would be to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, a measure that would be hard to accomplish in industrialized countries without a wholesale turn...