As the two leading double acts of the day, Morecambe and Wise and the Winters brothers enjoyed a playful rivalry — the Winters themselves mocked the slight edge Morecambe and Wise had over them in popularity while Morecambe, when asked what he and Wise would have been if not comedians, replied " Mike and Bernie Winters ".

# Artistic dress has romantic, vaguely medieval lines with a slight train, and is worn without a corset or hoops.

Violet and Quigley Quagmire have slight romantic interest of each other and they both kissed in the book ' The Slippery Slope '.

He said " With a slight drift from the camp disco, ' Please Stay ' indulges in a light, fast acoustic sound, backed up by a thumping beat and lauded by soothing, inviting vocals from Minogue, she draws you into it and makes you feel like you're strutting the romantic streets of Paris.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

" Haflidason concludes, " Once over, the mood of the film hits home and a longing develops to visit once again the characters of this warm and deceptively slight comedy.

All Roman comedy stems from Greek New Comedy but rewritten in Latin with slight adjustments to local taste and the long, narrow stage of Roman theatre.

A slight variation of the " comedy of errors " discipline is farcical theatre, which revolves around humor caused by the foolish mistakes of unintelligent characters and the chaos that derives from it.

The Girl Most Likely to ... is a black comedy with slight psychological thriller elements written by Joan Rivers and starring Stockard Channing and Edward Asner.

The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

The MRC study showed protection waned to 59 % after 15 years and to zero after 20 years ; however, a study looking at native Americans immunized in the 1930s found evidence of protection even 60 years after immunization, with only a slight waning in efficacy.

Cream produced by cattle ( particularly Jersey cattle ) grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat ; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, hence the name of the yellowish-white color, cream.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

Archimedes used to demand just one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth ; so I too can hope for great things if I manage to find just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshakable.

The historical classification of Diprotodon consisted of eight species ( Diprotodon optatum Owen, 1838 ; Diprotodon australis Owen, 1844 ; D. annextans McCoy, 1861 ; D. minor Huxley, 1862 ; D. longiceps McCoy 1865 ; D. loderi Krefft, 1873a ; D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ( nec D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ); and D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ( nec D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ); based on size or slight morphological differences of single specimens collected from isolated geographic regions.

He soon became skilled, and promoted a plan for publishing, in Washington, portraits of eminent American statesmen ; however, he met with but slight encouragement.

Differences in praxis ( practice ) tend to be slight ; they involve such things as the order in which a particular set of hymns are sung or what time a particular service is celebrated.

Lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s ; examples include Jeopardy!

# Selection is overwhelmingly the main mechanism of change ; even slight advantages are important when continued.

Some combination or hybrid bits combine direct pressure and leverage, such as the Kimblewick or Kimberwicke, which adds slight leverage to a two-rein design that resembles a snaffle ; and the four rein designs such as the single mouthpiece Pelham bit and the double bridle, which places a curb and a snaffle bit simultaneously in the horse's mouth.

The largest and tallest of the galloping hounds, in general type he is a rough-coated, Greyhound-like breed ; very muscular, strong though gracefully built ; movements easy and active ; head and neck carried high, the tail carried with an upward sweep with a slight curve towards the extremity ".

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

In telescopes, the nebula appears as a visible ring with a green tinge ; it is slightly elliptical because its three dimensional shape is a torus or cylinder seen from a slight angle.

A rise in the elevation of the land due to the melting of heavy glacier ice caused a slight rebounding effect of underlying rock ; this land rise, however, was not enough to eliminate all the effect of the rising sea level and its invasion of former land features.

The second generation ( NB ) was introduced in 1998 with a slight increase in engine power ; it can be recognized by the fixed headlights and the glass rear window, although first generation owners may opt for the glass window design when replacing the original top.

A larger MTU brings greater efficiency because each packet carries more user data while protocol overheads, such as headers or underlying per-packet delays, remain fixed ; the resulting higher efficiency means a slight improvement in bulk protocol throughput.

Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

Only Kubrick's name was submitted as a nominee in this category, resulting in his winning the award, which many consider a slight to the four men whose work contributed to the film's success.

2. Only AMC 12A or AMC 12B takers are eligible for the USAMO ( with the slight exception mentioned in item 5 below ).

Only slight changes were made to the previous arrangement.

Only slight wrinkle ridges now mark where the western rim once lay.

Only slight intensification took place before the storm crossed the International Dateline and entered the Joint Typhoon Warning Center's area of responsibility.

Only about 20 % of rotatable HRS antennas are ALLISS, but this may be a slight overestimate.

Only ten of these cartridges were specially made with the same rom set, costing Imagic only a few thousand dollars to produce by making slight changes to the original mask, as opposed to making a brand new Rom from scratch.

Only the slight projection of the battery trays below the frame rails is noticeable at a distance.

In his book, Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting, 1750-1900, Herman Warner Williams, Jr., wrote, " As our first native-born painter to specialize in genre subjects and to engage a wide audience for them, Alvan Fisher is entitled to more than the slight notice that has been given him ... Only the canny Alvan Fisher was successful in turning a profit from the new themes in his paintings.

Most of these are slight differences in the wording of the prayers ; for instance, Oriental Sephardic and some Hasidic prayer books state " חננו מאתך חכמה בינה ודעת ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You wisdom ( ḥochmah ), understanding ( binah ) and knowledge ( daat )", in allusion to the Kabbalistic sefirot of those names, while the Nusach Ashkenaz, as well as Western Sephardic and other Hasidic versions retain the older wording " חננו מאתך דעה בינה והשכל ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You knowledge, understanding, and reason ".

The Newcastle-based band Moira Stewart ( named after the British newsreader ) included a cover of " You Give a Little Love " ( with a slight change of title to simply " Give a Little Love ") on their début album " Sweetness, Yes!

* At the end of the 11th series, to mark his departure from the show, Merton cast himself into Room 101, having been nominated by Ian Hislop, his rival on TV show Have I Got News for You, but with a slight twist.

After receiving a strong push from the record label and Aguilera herself, the single became a big hit for Aguilera, with many considering it a ' comeback ' due to the slight underperformance of her previous single I Turn to You.