Sentence examples for Slightly heartened from inspiring English sources

He sounded slightly heartened.

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(It is only slightly heartening to see that the report uses and recognizes the term "children's rights").

"Trust his stuff," I said, heartened slightly.

Heartened by a slightly better performance than management expected in the company's latest quarter, Oracle believes its sales are poised to rise for the first time in nearly two years.

We are forecasting a payrolls figure of 220,000, slightly above consensus, and we are heartened to be that side of the forecasting pack by these figures.

And while experts said they were heartened by the pickup in activity, the overall number of refinancings this year was expected to be only slightly more than a quarter of the volume at the height of the housing boom in 2003.

"Heartened and disheartened," Paul said.

Heartened by Donovan's performance?

The Socialist Martine Aubry, a kind of more comforting maternal version of the slightly Palinesque Ségolène Royal, and on the right, Sarkozy's old nemesis, the former foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, will doubtless both be heartened, politically, by this news.

But Robert was heartened.