Sentence:  Clearly the producers of “The Producers” were so little inclined to tinker with a winning formula that they chose not to excise a few lines of dialogue to accommodate the <WSD>svelter</WSD> physique of their new leading man, preposterous though it is that anyone in a fit of pique would deride a fellow as “once-husky.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Attractively thin; gracefully slender. (from 1810s)