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"pencil-thin" Definitions
  1. very thin
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Now, do you want your asparagus pencil thin, medium or jumbo?
A pencil-thin man, he seemed swallowed up by the empty ballroom.
I'd recently seen the movie Sully, starring Tom Hanks and a white, pencil-thin mustache.
And why do you layer ink blocks and pencil-thin lines over each landscape scene?
Robert Lewandowski was once a pencil-thin teen, but he's now one of the world's most revered goalscorers.
The woman filter, in particular, thinks everyone should have pencil thin eyebrows, shaved jaws, light makeup, and lightened skin.
Bales is a lean man of 79, with a pencil-thin mustache and the hunched frame of a lifelong tinkerer.
Phone commercials in the past decade flaunt their pencil-thin profiles, with current models twirling like a ballerina on pointe.
Between the lipliner, pencil-thin eyebrows, and the white hair, I guess I really embraced the '90s trends back in the day!
It should be 10cc or 12cc, not the kind of pencil-thin syringe that doctors poke you with, according to NOLS' handbook.
"He had a pencil-thin neck, those buck teeth, and his diet was composed of Mountain Dew and Cheez-Its," Buckley said.
Between the lip liner, pencil-thin eyebrows and the white hair, I guess I really embraced the '90s trends back in the day!
Tradition calls for pencil-thin, but the final steaks will be juicier if you order them 1/2- to 3/4-inch thick.
Making such a chair, with its carved seat, pencil-thin spindles, turned legs and absence of right angles, is the amateur woodworker's Moby Dick.
By the time World War II began, women were shaving regularly, as well as plucking their eyebrows to get those perfect '30s pencil-thin arches.
As it worked its way up the winding dirt trail, it became clear that the white spot was a longhaired, pencil-thin man, running swiftly.
Between the outlandish costumes, the whiplash sound effects, and Electra's devilishly pencil-thin mustache, it's almost closer to a Lonely Island parody than anything else.
But that didn't stop us from believing they'd safely deliver us down the pencil-thin shoulder of a 40-mile-an-hour highway during rush hour.
Pencil-thin soundstage and anaemic bass But hey, creaks and cheap construction can be excused by great sound, and that's where the H500Ms truly fall down.
In a matter of weeks, a combination of inadequate calories, inedible food, and small portions reduced my already pencil-thin frame by more than 214 pounds.
Monroe County barbecue consists of pork shoulder cut crosswise on a meat saw into pencil-thin steaks, which are grilled, rather than smoked, over hickory embers.
A slender guerrilla fighter detached him- or herself from a doorway and waved on our pencil-thin driver with his black hair combed forward over his forehead.
Pencil-thin brows and clumpy lashes (not to mention cheekbones that could cut glass) were her signature beauty look, and one from which she didn't stray too far.
After an epiphany in which he saw people as "hungry ghosts" -- Buddhist beings whose swollen bellies and pencil-thin necks symbolize the insatiability of desire -- Glassman vowed to serve them.
A cluster of small triangles and squares along a pencil-thin shoreline are all you need to recognize Hong Kong from the mountains above and behind the city and harbor.
I began at the source, motoring hundreds of miles upriver in a precarious, pencil-thin canoe in the Democratic Republic of Congo to an area where many bonobos have disappeared.
Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, Irving's pencil-thin schoolteacher who is here reimagined as a late-18th-century New York City policeman sent to investigate a string of murders upstate.
Previously, creators were limited to the pencil-thin line that was really only useful for writing, and was so thin that it took forever to color in drawings or other images.
For most people in North America, the quick-cooking green type is what you'll find consistently, in all sizes — skinny pencil-thin green asparagus, medium-size spears or fat jumbo stalks.
The sober room — checkered floor, white tablecloths — was empty save for a table of three dweeby Swiss guys trying to eat pencil-thin foie gras canapés with a fork and knife.
How to Get Glowing Skin and Bold Lips Like Huda Kattan In addition to her pencil-thin eyebrows, Kim has confessed that she wished her nails were longer when she got engaged.
"Return of the Mack" — Mark Morrison Honorable Mentions: "Margaritaville" — Jimmy Buffet"Cheeseburger in Paradise" — Jimmy Buffet"Why Don't We Get Drunk" — Jimmy Buffet"Boat Drinks" — Jimmy Buffet"Pencil Thin Mustache" — Jimmy Buffet
Our unscientific theory: In the '90s, genuinely cool women like Drew Barrymore and Janet Jackson successfully worked pencil-thin brows, which led to a generation of teens hacking away at their own with whatever tool was to hand.
It's now 2018, and I've been waiting nearly 17 years for my eyebrows to grow back fully after the ghastly pencil-thin brow debacle of the early '00s, fashioned fabulously by the likes of Christina Aguilera and Paris Hilton.
While eyebrows have had different incarnations over the last hundred years—from pencil-thin whispers on the silver screen to harshly stenciled Audrey Hepburn brows—the female unibrow as a symbol of beauty has been pushed to the edges of society.
For residents of Orange County, Stefani's platinum-blonde retro hair, red lips, pencil-thin eyebrows, and mix of crop tops and punk pants might have been familiar, a reflection of the skater, rockabilly, and chola aesthetics that infused the area.
Interns ran up from the basement with brooms and swept madly from the corners, porters tied off the trash bags, the line cooks pulled down pint containers from shelves above their stations — inside were kits with bandannas, thermometers, pencilthin flashlights.
By using glue sticks and powder to cleverly cover eyebrows (in case you hadn't noticed, many filters remove your arches!), fine art brushes to make pencil-thin lines, and tweezers to place plastic jewels in precisely the right spots, these artists create end results that are dead ringers for the real thing.
So when I received an invitation to meet the queen of brows herself to celebrate Anastasia Beverly Hills' launch into Selfridges in the UK, I couldn't turn it down — especially because Soares has been with me, figuratively speaking, through my brow journey over the years, from bushy slugs to pencil-thin and everything in between.
This "completely subjective" — per Ms. Moonan — collection of staggering spaces designed in the post-dilettante period includes Billy Baldwin's sumptuous library at 653 Fifth Avenue for the CBS executive William S. Paley; Deborah Berke's marble-clad bathroom for a client at the pencil-thin 265 Park Avenue; and Gloria Vanderbilt's quilt-covered bedroom on the Upper East Side.
Among the more common varieties are var. herrei (with tubercles) and the gracile var. jonesiae (with pencil-thin stems).
Isaac Stanford Jolley (October 24, 1900 - December 7, 1978) was an American character actor of film and television, primarily in western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains. Recognized by his slight build, narrow face, and pencil-thin moustache, Jolley appeared some five hundred times on the large or small screen.
By now, Betty is pencil thin (her figure thinner than Olive Oyl's), and she looks so funny with the huge head and spindly body that she and Little Jimmy along with the furniture and scale laugh non-stop to the extent that both Betty and Jimmy blow up to be as round as balloons.
De Castelbajac, p152. In the violent, sexual porno chic fashion photography of French and Italian Vogue, women wore blood-red lipstick, glossy red nail polish, pencil-thin eyebrows and black eye make-up.De Castelbajac, p154-57. Women employed this vision of beauty for evenings, when they could aim to seduce in the era's discos.
He made his first single, "World Affairs", in 1981. Kamoze then released a 12-inch single "Trouble You A Trouble Me"/"General" in 1983. His self-titled debut album was released in 1984 as a six track mini-LP on Island Records. In the album notes he describes himself as a "pencil thin... disentangled... six-foot vegetarian".
The Star Mother appears as a chunk of yellow-green stone about the size of an infant. Its shape suggests a plump, huge-breasted, faceless female figure. From it extend dozens of pencil-thin root-like strands. It is one of the Larvae of the Other Gods and has no cult, although served by zombie slaves.
His name also appears in the song "Pencil Thin Mustache" by Jimmy Buffett, which describes the pop culture of his youth, and in Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's song "Andy" on their 1975 album "One Size Fits All". In 2019, on his album "Good Dog" Dave Stamey released a song entitled, "Andy Devine," recounting tales of encounters with Hollywood western actors.
The actors Bud Abbott, Errol Flynn, David Niven, Clark Gable, Don Ameche, J. K. Simmons and Leslie Phillips all had pencil moustaches. Musicians such as Little Richard, Sammy Davis Jr., Prince, George Benson, Dave Wyndorf, Chris Cornell and Ron Mael have been associated with the look. Jimmy Buffett's 1974 song "Pencil Thin Mustache" is a nostalgic celebration of his childhood when such mustaches were more common.
Bars is the drinking and party songs-themed disc. Beginning with "Fins", the album also includes "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)?" and "Pencil Thin Mustache." "Elvis Imitators," an attempt at an Elvis Presley rockabilly song, written by Steve Goodman and Mike Smith, and "Domino College" were both previously unreleased on a Buffett album. "Fins" and "Cuban Crime of Passion" were co-written with novelist Tom Corcoran.
Of course he was physically not strong because of his pencil thin body. Later it was the railway coach devan who had to put him through weight training to strengthen his arms for punches. Before joining the railways, he gave Tamil Nadu its first gold medal in the national championship in 40 years. Since then he has been winning the gold medal at National championships almost every time.
He would stop on the front straight, climb up on his hood and lead the entire crowd in singing his own version of the classic Southern American song Dixie. Flock's uniform would consist of Bermuda shorts and argyle socks in addition to a pencil-thin moustache reminiscent of Clark Gable. Total winnings for this race were $23,855 ($ when adjusted for inflation). Sixty-six drivers competed; all of them were born in the United States.
In 1964, Winters wrote Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity (Prentice Hall), an etiquette book aimed at young girls, which inspired the alternative rock band Nada Surf's 1996 song and video "Popular." As well, Jimmy Buffett's song "Pencil Thin Mustache" contains a reminiscence about being "bucktoothed and skinny ... writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny."Freeze, Di. "Fan Letters for Sky's Niece Penny", (Gloria Winters interview), Airport Journal, January 2006. WebCitation archive.
In a dark alley, a wino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her and beats up the drunk as she leaves. Along her way, a pimp, with a pencil-thin mustache, and sharply dressed, approaches her, buys her a flower from a flower girl's basket, and cajoles her into escorting a porcine rich man in a chauffeured limousine. As they cruise the through the night, she thinks back to her tragic youth and her abusive father.
The Badd Lads was a comic strip that ran in The Beezer for twenty years starring Fingers, Knuck and Boss who were inept criminals. They were always getting caught, escaping jail and then finding themselves incarcerated again. Fingers was your quintessential spiv with the pencil thin moustache, Knuck was the thick set, soft goon and Boss was the short but smart brains of the outfit. The Badd Ladds was illustrated by Malcolm Judge from January 1960 through to 1987.
The ring-headed dwarf snake is a pencil-thin species that grows to a maximum length of but most adults are considerably smaller than this. The skin is smooth and the edges of the scales are slightly darker than the centres. The upper surface of the body is a uniform yellowish-brown, greyish-brown or reddish-brown colour and the underparts are glossy white. The top of the head has a large black blotch inside which are either two whitish spots or a pale "W"-shaped mark.
The most significant changes, however, were to Aphrodite and Athena; the former shifted from a giggling pencil-thin schoolgirl-like teenager, to a conniving fully mature armor-clad lust goddess, with an entirely different voice and manner of speech as well. Athena was altered from a blonde in monotonous silver armor; to a brunette cloaked in blood-red dual-split dress with matching cape, plus golden shin guards and arm-bands in addition. Despite the complete change in depiction, her voice did remain the same.
Construction of a Formula One car, the Tipo 100, began in mid-1962 on a farm near Bologna, with the car being unveiled in that city in December 1962. The Tipo 100 had a pencil thin body, and was powered by a V8 1,494cc engine, which featured fuel injection and double-overhead camshafts. The transmission was a 6-speed Colotti gearbox. Suspension consisted of rockers arms with inboard coils for the front, and double wishbones with coils for the rear, while disc brakes were mounted inboard.
Faecal incontinence can result from mechanical and neurological problems, and when associated with a lack of voluntary voiding ability is described as encopresis. Pain on passing stool may result from anal abscesses, small inflamed nodules, anal fissures, and anal fistulas. Rectal and anal disease may be asymptomatic, or may present with pain when passing stools, fresh blood in stool, a feeling of incomplete emptying, or pencil-thin stools. In addition to regular tests, medical tests used to investigate the anus and rectum include the digital rectal exam and proctoscopy.
"The Great Filling Station Hold Up" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean and was his first single from that album. The single reached No. 58 on the US Country chart in 1973. The song appears on Live at Fenway Park, a live album that opened with an acoustic set consisting of "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes", "The Great Filling Station Holdup" and "Pencil Thin Mustache".
Silipigni, a dapper figure of old-world elegance with a pencil-thin mustache, manicured nails and ascot, was as meticulous with his productions as he was with his own appearance. Before conducting works like Leoncavallo's Zaza, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur and Verdi's Attila, he did painstaking research. For a production of Tosca six years ago, he matched the color of choir robes used in Rome in 1800. Often, the works had not been heard in the United States for decades before Silipigni presented them, turning Newark, NJ where the company was based, into a destination for lovers of verismo and operatic obscurities.
The Jocks (Scottish boys) wore various tartan jumpers and tam o'shanter caps, which were so absurdly large that their wearers' eyes were rarely visible. Their names were Big Jock (the leader), Wee Eck, Hector, Angus and Sandy. The Geordies (North East England boys) wore tiny caps and almost identical dark school uniforms; some of their socks were ridiculously tight, making their shins look pencil thin. The names of the Geordies were not always consistent: the fifth Geordie was referred to as 'Sidney' in the 1979 Dandy Annual but this name was later given to the leader of the Geordies.
In his early appearances, the Wizard wore a tuxedo and cape, thus he was similar in appearance to Mandrake the Magician (a resemblance made even more obvious by his dashing pencil thin moustache). At first, his cape and mask were white, but they were soon switched to a more striking red. During the Moskovia Invasion crossover storyline (which featured the Shield) where he was briefly blinded by an enemy attack, he developed a bullet-proof, explosion-resistant costume that consisted of blue tights with red trunks, cape, and mask. He wore this costume for the remainder of his Golden Age appearances.
There's gold in them thar hills I tell you. During this time Cohen commissioned two short films from director Alan Parker who later wrote of Cohen: > Nat Cohen was an avuncular, vulgar man with a shifty, pencil thin moustache > who looked more like a Soho strip club spiv than a film mogul. His lowbrow > taste in film production had secured him a sizeable wallet and hence his > puffed–up position running EMI. No one could remember any films he’d made > except that they’d apparently made a ton of money — one of his racehorses > had even won the 1962 Grand National.
The Stanley sisters called him "Spiv", because of his pencil-thin moustache, margarine-coated hair, and pork-pie hat, and the young Lennon called him "Twitchy" because of a physical tic/nervous cough. Julia's family and friends remembered that he also had a fiery temperament, which could result in his being violent when drunk. Lennon remembered seeing his mother during a visit to Mimi's, when her face was bleeding after being hit by Dykins. Paul McCartney later stated that Julia living in sin with Dykins while she was still married was a point of social ostracization for Lennon, as it was often used as a "cheap shot" against him.
On a second, and this time solo audition with Vivian Van Damm, English became resident comedian at the Windmill Theatre at the same time compering a show for Bob Potter. English stayed at the Windmill as the principal comic until August 1950. His early professional career was as a stand-up comic in the persona of a stereotypical wartime "spiv", and he became known as "The Prince of the Wide Boys"– Denis Gifford – Obituary: Arthur English – The Independent – 23 October 2011 dressed in a trilby hat, a white jacket and padded shoulders with a pencil-thin moustache set off with a flamboyant kipper tie four feet wide.
The Stanley sisters called Dykins a "spiv", because of his pencil- thin moustache, margarine-coated hair, and pork-pie hat, but the young Lennon called him "Twitchy" because of a physical tic and nervous cough Dykins had. Although Julia never divorced Alfred Lennon, she was the common-law wife of Dykins, although Paul McCartney admitted to being sarcastic to Lennon about his mother living in sin while Julia was still married. Julia's sister, Mimi, called Julia and Dykins' home—at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool—"The House of Sin" and her own house (where Lennon lived) "The House of Correction". When Jackie was born prematurely on 26 October 1949, Julia went back to the hospital every day to see her, although she was often not allowed (by Mimi) to visit Lennon.

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