Up until Szirtes published on his blog a very slighting accusation - that Carol Rumens accused him of being 'anit-democratic' he was quite convincing as a responsible and concerned poet but it's now obvious that his words are very unreliable and indeed hurtful and maligning to a colleague.

To many, he seemed a little slight for the job.

I actually had to make a slight change to some of the music.

If they do, I often play the next game as a slight change.

Why must he always make so much of such slight things?

I gave the point but slight attention at the time.

A slight sound came from the other side of the house.

I heard a slight sound behind us and looked around.

A slight change to the system was made in 1949.

He heard a slight sound outside the front door of the room.

Both men started at a slight sound by the door.

He did not hear a slight sound by the door in back of him.

But I am actually trying to get at is a slight development of what you've said.

I must have made some slight sound, because the face turned up to look at me.

There was one slight problem, according to the Bush campaign.

Like, no one can find the slightest bad thing to say about him.

Friends have told me this was a slight to my wife.

He seemed to have not the slightest interest in what she was saying.

No one here had the slightest idea who he was.

My hold over her, if I had any at all, was very slight.

"Have you got the slightest idea of what he was talking about?"

The changes in her were slight but all to the good.

The shot had all but cut his slight body in two.

Very slight, but enough to take this road out of play.

The changes she was looking for would be both slight and very significant.

There was just a slight matter to deal with first.

"You never find he slights his work when your back is turned?"

"Yet still he is my father and I will not hear him slighted."

Why should the hours after the sun has come up be slighted?

A woman who is slighted by her husband without any cause.

Frank's mother would never have been slighted as she was but for her.

In public research dollars spent, it does not seem that women have been slighted.

I should not have a doubt of it were she slighted for any other woman in the world than her own mother.

Yet again I was being slighted through no fault of my own.

She felt slighted by a father consumed with building his business, even when he was home.

She was not rejected or slighted, but the relationship had changed.

No one slighted a Campbell and got away with it.

Big game hunting, which he had always slighted, suddenly looked a lot more like work.

I am used to being ignored and slighted, but mark this well!

He really felt slighted to be left out when so much thrilling work was being done.

The castle was then slighted to prevent its further use.

The Raiders' defense should expect to feel slighted again this week.

I spent years feeling slighted for no good reason in the presence of couples.

I don't want one guy to think I'm slighting him in any way.

It is not a warning to be slighted: that I happen to know.

"And people end up feeling slighted if they aren't on the first."

We are slighting a good many of these bigger towns.

She had slighted his manhood, and this was the result!

"I realize some of you may feel slighted at the moment.

By now, the country is used to being slighted.

He had left things to others too long, and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted.

He saw slights everywhere, whether they were there or not.

And everyone would be sorry for the slights she had been made to suffer.

Will it be possible to put aside the perceived slights of recent days?

For a young woman, this dream indicates love after many slights.

Then came more open slights like the removal of her security detail.

Before day's end, a couple of parents will have complained about perceived slights against their children.

He'd had regrets from others, but he would overlook the slights.

Over the years, I've learned to lived with perceived racial slights.

I looked for slights and insults where there were none.

Q. Have you suffered many slights because of your marriage?

If he did not want to talk after the perceived slights, it was understandable.

Slight of frame with an open, heart-shaped face and wide brown eyes, she looked lost.

The fact was, their lives had been too busy to dwell on such slights.

Just a few slights I picked up handling heavy things and the like.

Now those logistical problems and small slights belong to someone else.

Karen Slight grunted when she saw the actual conditions on the land.

She had always made it a policy to forgive slights, both small and large, in the spirit of giving.

So the slights of the past 12 months don't hurt him anymore.

Other family members also recalled these verbal slights and worse.

B. More willing to see racial slights in police actions.

Should he express his hurt or anger at racial slights?

When it comes to perceived slights, musicians have long memories.

The women also recalled the slights of a male-dominated military.

Because it's not only difficult but almost impossible to erase slights from your memory.

Slight of stature, he had cropped blond hair and light blue eyes.