Svelte quality

Usage examples of thinness.

Beneath each one, wet piles of fur mounded where the parchmenter had begun scraping the skin to the necessary thinness.

The thinness of the silica layer is critical: it has to be just thick enough to block the photocatalysis, but not so thick that it degrades the optical properties of the TiO2.

The stuff, a chemical combination known only to Doc, was a sort of glassite that had unbelievable strength for its weight and thinness.

Although unusual in language, this disproportion between signifier and signified is not specific to myth: in Freud, for instance, the parapraxis is a signifier whose thinness is out of proportion to the real meaning which it betrays.

Scores of beautiful vases of alabaster, breccia, marble, and soapstone, wrought in some cases to the thinness of a modern china cup, suggest at once the protodynastic Egyptian bowls of diorite and syenite, and show that if the Cretan took the idea from Egyptian models, he was not behind his master in the skill with which he carried it out.

All but four of those dimensions are compactified - rolled up to an unimaginable thinness.

Despite its fantastic thinness, there were molecule-thin murals worked onto it: titanic scenes of Investor argosies where wily Investors had defrauded pebbly bipeds and gullible heavy-planet gasbags swollen with wealth and hydrogen.

Considering the great length and thinness of the peduncles and the lightness of the pods, we may conclude that they would not be able to excavate saucerlike depressions in sand or sawdust, or bury themselves in moss, etc.

In her stone-walled, carpetless, barely furnished business office, the nobly born churchwoman had confronted him, her eyes containing all the warmth of a sword blade, her lips drawn to the tight thinness of the edge of a battleaxe, her manner as frosty as winter icicles.

His thinness was accentuated by his height, which Claudine guessed to be just under two metres.

Her dress was of gold bawdkin, and fitting tight to the body, betrayed her extreme thinness, and gave her a very rigid look.

What had, on the girl, been extreme slimness had become, on the woman she was now, an almost bony thinness, the outward expression of her inner frustration and bitterness, as though these deep-rooted feelings that had distorted her life had eaten away at her flesh as thoroughly and destructively as any bodily illness.

But the necessities of the Americans, the want of military `materiel', the thinness of the regiments, and the increasing strength of the British, derived from foreign troops and accessions from other posts in America, left it doubtful, under existing circumstances, whether it could be long retained.

Both were tall and peculiarly thin - not the thinness of emaciation, but that of bodily structure.

The likes of Saul and me, living in Caris Rookery, dwelt among thieves and pickpockets, and dollymops and seasonal workers and sailors who had lost their boats, the elderly and the mad and the infirm, and wild-eyed waifs of incredible thinness and viciousness.