Sentence examples for Could have borne from inspiring English sources

If "Invictus" could have borne more complexity, it is far from simplistic.

"Maybe the industry could have borne these costs two years ago, but they probably can't today," the chief justice said.

"I think I could have borne it better had Miss Cartland not been so common-minded, so salacious and so illiterate," she wrote.

The fact that he was aided in this task by his friend and neighbor George Bernard Shaw is similarly an aspect that could have borne more teasing out.

"Only a saint could have borne with complete equanimity the inadequate recognition he had for years to endure," said the writer Shirley Hazzard (herself a Maxwell charge at the New Yorker) after Maxwell's death.

Few friendships could have borne the strain they put on theirs - by marrying sisters, for example; but among its quieter pressures was the fact that they encouraged in each other the worst habits of hasty composition.

Loki's belief that humans are craven could have bore a bit more scrutiny (but then the question of whether people are really worth saving is one Mr Whedon has already addressed elsewhere).

Anna couldn't have borne it".

But I couldn't have borne it from anyone else.

He knew I could not have borne to let him see me all undressed.

I couldn't have borne it if he'd lost interest".