• "So there comes a point with that sort of thing where you think maybe a slightly quieter life would be ideal, but we shall see, " he added.

    BBC: 'Vindicated' Mosley returns to F1

  • His decision is personal, driven by family bereavement and the wish to pursue a slightly more settled life.

    BBC: Shaking it up

  • India resumed after the interval on 41-2 from 17 overs and they found life slightly easier with the pitch holding as well as could be expected given the widening cracks on offer.

    BBC: Indian batsmen defy Australians

  • And if it sounds like we're obsessed with specs, know this: the T13's battery life is slightly longer and, as we established, its performance is a bit faster, too.

    ENGADGET: Toshiba Satellite U845 review: an inexpensive Ultrabook worth considering

  • Thank goodness, then, for Kevin Spacey, who brings a glee and relish to Luthor's larger-than-life villainy that compensates for the slightly sombre whole.

    BBC: Brandon Routh in Superman Returns

  • When the same people are asked whether they think murderers should be given the death penalty or life in prison without parole, slightly more Americans choose prison (44%) than death (41%).

    ECONOMIST: The death penalty

  • Short battery life and weak audio dampen our enthusiasm slightly, but ultimately the XT is one of the best Ultrabooks available right now.

    ENGADGET: Look and feel

  • From a family with no other college graduates and only one who attempted it, I was bound to work for slightly above minimum wage for the rest of my life.

    WHITEHOUSE: Engage and Connect

  • Although the connections we show of inequality to life expectancy, infant mortality and homicide are slightly weaker (though still statistically significant with correlations of between 0.4 to 0.6), there are an additional 200 independent analyses that chart the link between health and inequality and another 50 between violence and inequality.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Mr Browner nicely retells, for instance, the cautionary tale of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a well-meaning but slightly dim toff who thought she had found her role in life as hostess to London's literary smart set.

    ECONOMIST: Hospitality

  • To accuse a movie of getting Pakistan's street life wrong when it treats extreme torture as mundane office work seems slightly off the mark but that is the real debate.

    BBC: Viewpoint: Has Zero Dark Thirty insulted Pakistan?

  • Quality of life improved significantly for those getting both treatments, while it worsened slightly for those given only drugs, according to the study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

    FORBES: Brain Implants Help Parkinson's Patients

  • Martin Gottfried, a theatre critic for the New York Post, has written a conventional, meat-and-potatoes biography, slightly hampered by Mr Miller's refusal to talk to him about his personal life.

    ECONOMIST: Literary biography

  • Yet the idea runs deep, in British life of the past half-century, that a true toff must be hushed and slightly ill at ease with his own toffery.

    WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Julian Fellowes: The Anti-Snobbery of 'Downton Abbey'

  • Someone who has spent a good portion of her life gaining purchase has suddenly been asked to sell something, and she seems to find it slightly beneath her.

    NEWYORKER: The Other Obama

  • After his goalscoring exploits last season, Bellion has featured slightly less frequently this term, thanks to Blanc's squad-rotation system, but he is content with life on the Garonne river and feels his maturity off the pitch is reflected by his play on it.

    BBC: How Bellion bounced back

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