Word: slight
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...best practitioners of twee, a musical genre that draws on the smooth boy-girl harmonies, catchy beats, innocent lyrics and the sheer musical simplicity of the ’50s and ’60s. Twee is, at its best, carefully crafted bubblegum pop with a slight alternative bent...
...bedroom. One night, in November of 1983, after Doe had come to the office for a prayer session, Doe says O'Connell concluded it by giving him a bear hug - and grabbing his crotch. "I was shocked," says Doe, sobbing in an interview with TIME; but given how slight in both stature and experience he was, "it was overwhelming," and difficult to resist...
...think [Reka] would have been even more effective but the game was very physical and I don’t think the calls went her way,” Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “If you look at her body she has a slight build for a freshman and she’s only going to get bigger and stronger...
...Television Arts for his role in A Beautiful Mind, Crowe read verse from the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh as part of his acceptance speech. In so doing, he exceeded his allotted time. When the program later aired on the BBC, the poetry recitation was cut. Learning of the slight at a postawards dinner, Crowe confronted the show's producer, Malcolm Gerrie, escorted him to a storage room and shoved him against a wall. Like the regular bloke he endlessly insists he is, Crowe offered his complaint in a plainspoken way, saying, "Who on earth had the [expletive] audacity to take...
UMass’ four-goal victory didn’t show up in the key statistics. The Crimson held a 15-12 edge in ground balls and won nine of 14 draw controls. The Minutewomen, though, held a slight edge in shots on goal...