Given how few poems most persons' lives demand, we may wish to reverse our judgment on the "
slightness" of her poetic output.
The
slightness of the film is further confirmed by the newsreel placed at the beginning, reportedly done so at the request of the network in order to pad out the running time.
Suggesting that he is not fully matured, the stage directions stress his
slightness of build (The Hunted 1/327) and tellingly continue: "But when he smiles naturally his face has a gentle boyish charm which makes women immediately want to mother him" (the classicists in the audience would perhaps think of paiderastia).
Some of the reviews that greeted Travis Chamberlain's snug, site-specific hotel-room production of Green Eyes, like so many reviews of late Williams, could have been written 40 years ago, they were so full of the vintage fretting about the author's terrible condition when he wrote the play, and about its
slightness next to, say, Streetcar.
"Right now we're just trying to get our numbers up," he said of the team's
slightness up front.
Readers should not be misled by the apparent
slightness of these examples; the pronouns--"most of us", "we", "your"--are routinely used in constructing the dominant cultural group as a simple a-cultural aggregation (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001).
"spreading" in
slightness like the base of the faux-golden bowl,
The acknowledgement is perhaps all the more significant for its
slightness. But even when the qualities of human nature are more than slight, they can still be occluded from the anthropological world view.
(26) Taste serves as a prominent metaphor for imagining romance's
slightness and the need to make only "very moderate use" of its artistic license: the romance-writer must be careful "to mingle the Marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavor, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the Public" (1).
Their poems are lovely, and they are often afflicted with a stultifying
slightness.
Being conscious of the
slightness of his legal education, he then read for an LL.B.
Moreover, the materialization of Rosamond's previsions is tethered to her narrator-like status, for while "the basis for her structures had the usual airy
slightness," Rosamond "was of remarkably detailed and realistic imagination when the foundation had been once presupposed" (ibid.).
WWDTW's first section was composed of asides and little pieces, providing an atmosphere of
slightness; Henighan, wisely, places the substantial essay first in Afterlife, and it is this essay, the central exhibit of Henighan's thought (and the best part of the book) that I shall discuss.