slightness

And they are stronger than my slightness of build would suggest.

As the second figure drew closer, he saw the slightness of the body and realized it was Johnny.

He was almost thirteen, but slightness of build and a baby face made him appear closer to ten.

The relative slightness of her work is part of the attraction.

Even in 1937, critics remarked on the slightness and sketchiness of the book.

I did not like him, the more so after he made a disparaging remark about my slightness of build.

The show's slightness of concept is offset by the performers' commitment to their material.

Is it the slightness of the sin which angers you?"

His abstract sketches, too, while pleasant enough, are slightness personified.

Indeed, its very slightness triggers a crisis of conscience.

Then again, it may be this very slightness that today makes him seem a proto-Modernist.

The very slightness of their collaboration seems fitting.

The film's many strengths cannot make up for this Tess's emotional slightness, though.

Almost everybody concedes the novel's charm, but some have demurred at the slightness of the material.

Tiny noises in infinite variety assumed a menacing quality despite the slightness of sound.

She was a small dark woman, whose slightness of build made the fourteen year old beside her appear tall and unexpectedly mature.

From the slightness of the arm, from the color of the sleeve, it was a woman.

Slightness is my curse in every sense.

The delay may reflect the film's slightness and the economics of distributing foreign films, but not its popularity abroad.

"Oh, I thought her slightness was one of her most charming features," said Madison.

You arrogantly point to his "intellectual slightness."

There was a slightness and a delicacy about him that suggested the femmme, but without weakness.

Others, most notably the author's brother William James, faulted the novel's "slightness."

Zoe felt his slightness, his soft heat.

She pulled back from him, but like all jaran men, his slightness disguised his true strength.