"Art is something that lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal."
But he had lost to Congress candidate by a slender margin of around 1900 votes.
Only later would the two men realize the slender margin of their escape.
The Nets toyed with a 14-point lead early in the third quarter, then held on to a slender 70-69 margin going into the fourth.
Actually he knew he had, though by a rather slender margin.
The polls put him ahead, but only by a slender margin, with a sizable undecided vote.
Rankine retained the seat in 2002, with a slender margin of 3.2 percent.
He lost with a slender margin of 1100 votes.
A president - and a party - should not worry about slender margins of victory or legislative control.
The question soughed through him: How many chances had he missed, by what slender margins, throughout all the years?