In an I-hope-no-one's-looking moment I stuff it into a couple of hairpins in "workshop mode" and emerge, slightly sweaty, with a renewed admiration of just how competent modern stability programs are.

Mr. Brough wrote in The Daily Mirror on Tuesday that he had been singled out for testing because "Scaramella's palms had been slightly sweaty when I shook hands" with him during an interview last week in Naples.

Adams had a firm grasp, although his palm was slightly sweaty.

But more often than not, the humor brings to mind a slightly sweaty young college professor with a social conscience, hoping to win over his students by acting funky and cracking wise.

I ask, while guzzling from a liter of Evian, still slightly sweaty from this afternoon's workout.

Charlie leaned over and hugged him, held him; the boy felt hot again, slightly sweaty.

I lie, palms slightly sweaty.

Not more than sixty, seventy pounds of hinged bone and squirming muscle, warmth and child smell, slightly sweaty.

Her belly feels hot and slightly sweaty.

The skin was warm, slightly sweaty, and very soft.