Sentence examples for a bit resigned from inspiring English sources

"That's more or less what I do," he said, sounding a bit resigned.

"I'm not happy that he's going," Mr. Bloomberg said in a phone interview last week, sounding a bit resigned.

Judy Ashmore, a systems analyst from Milwaukee, seemed a bit resigned, suggesting, "If we can't have him as president, I hope we can have him as vice president".

Yuck really nails the drone, that low, slow guitar moan of the early 1990s — not guttural in a grunge way, but something a little more restrained and polite, maybe even a bit resigned.

Dylan goes for something quieter, a touch more defiant than Holiday, a bit more resigned — as broken as Holiday sounds, she was only in her early forties when she recorded her version.

HAVANA -- The everyday people in Cuba whose lives President Barack Obama aims to help improve with a historic visit to the island on Sunday anticipated the visit with a mix of open enthusiasm, cautious optimism and, at times, a bit of resigned skepticism.

To my mind, giving in to the inevitability of sporting less muscle and more fat each year is a bit like resigning yourself to your house getting dusty or your car getting rusty.

She snapped me out of my way of thinking and I allowed myself to be a bit irrational – I resigned from the army, and told everyone I would become an astronaut.

Down a piece, he resigned.

But given the surge of outside investigations into such companies, and considering the people who serve on the NYSE's board of directors, it takes no great leap to conclude that the front line is starting to look a bit frayed.Last October, Linda Wachner resigned from the NYSE board soon after Warnaco, her lingerie company, went bankrupt, having repeatedly restated its accounts.

But this was a bit of a fluke: Mr DeLay resigned after the primary, so Republicans could not replace him on the ballot.