Hints and tips:
...Even the voters who turned out to see Haley as she kicked off a 30-stop bus tour last weekend acknowledged her chances of stopping Trump were slim....
...Petite and slim, she bounced on stage and hopped about during up tempo numbers....
...Perhaps with a Scottish referendum, a general election, an EU referendum and now another general election in the space of four years, some voters (like Brenda) are getting sick of politics....
...John Mortimer once named an attractive character Brenda Bodkin in order to have his hero yearn to “his quietus make with a bare Bodkin”....
...The possibility remains that the muddle and slim mandate might lead gradually to a growing belief that Brexit can never really happen....
...John Doyle’s production, which slims down the musical that premiered on Broadway a decade ago, also makes an overwhelming virtue of the small-scale....
...We were led up a slim track, slippery and muddy from persistent drizzle. The gravedigger moved the green baize surround back like an impeccable waiter moves back a stiff white linen cloth....
...Ways of Going Home, by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell, Granta, RRP£12.99, 160 pages A slim but thrilling novel from one of Chile’s outstanding young writers....
...A slim, wiry man with a raspy voice and a hawkish political outlook, Landau is at pains to accentuate the potential political benefits not just for Israel but for the wider region....
...Life is tricky: when Brenda says she longs to be asked to dance at the local disco, D – trying on a dress he has made himself – replies “You can slim but, with me, nothing fits”....
...She cites as good examples Lanvin’s long-strap versions, Alexander Wang’s Brenda mini camera bag and the Alexa by Mulberry....
...Brenda Loube allows her staff to spend 30 minutes exercising during every working day. This may sound like a strange notion, but for many, it is routine....
...Mr Rozenberg predicts soft earnings in the first half of this year because of slim lending margins and weak capital markets activity....
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