Word: slight
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...mile 24, nearing the end, past lunch at Wellesley and the miles of Heartbreak Hill and the interminable length of Brookline, those mile-marker posters take on what Amie calls “an almost totemic significance” for the walkers, who’ve now developed a slight stagger and are trying, less and less successfully, to drain the pooling blood from their hands. But mile 25 will be next, and then 26–and from there it’s only 0.2 miles to the tents and music and mylar “space blankets?...
During the “first retirement” from 1993-95 when Jordan left after three straight championships and his father’s murder, there was a slight chance his time was over. Suddenly, you no longer saw him hawking Hanes or Gatorade, the Bulls retired his number and there was even a statue built of him outside the United Center...
...Hazmi, a slight, bespectacled, devout man who lives in a gated community in San Antonio with his wife and two young children, has been flown to New York, where a grand jury has been empaneled. No legal counsel has spoken publicly on his behalf...
...Boston Ballet usually offers enchanting and accomplished dance. Yet, while its current production starts out on a hopeful note with Gerald Arpino’s slight and appealing Suite Saint-Saëns, it is unable to sustain momentum through the headliner, Bruce Wells’ heavily anticipated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both shows are strongly choreographed and well-staged dramatically, but Midsummer ultimately disappoints due to an inexperienced cast of dancers unsuited to the material...
...Harvard Book Store upon the release of the Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Dictionary was one such event. The panel, which consisted of Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer and Robert Pinsky, provided a very lively discussion about words, their meanings and their usage. In a previous reading, Mark Doty, a slight-looking poet who will finish the season for the Grolier Poetry Shop, transformed himself strikingly by throwing himself into the poem, but without the shouting or posturing that might spring to mind when one thinks of poetry readings...