Sentence examples for a certain element and from inspiring English sources

One year, the party had somehow been announced from the bandstand at the local bar, and pretty much everybody in town (or at least all the members of what my mother might describe as "a certain element" and my father refers to simply as "riffraff") showed up.

And within these kinds of characters is often a certain element of darkness and obscurity, which we try to reflect in appearance and mannerisms.

But a certain element of fun, and intimacy, is missing.

With Mr. Obama's newness comes a certain element of chance, and Mr. McCain, though he leans ever more doctrinaire, is still erratic enough that on the Internet he can be found singing — to a classic Beach Boys tune, mind you — about bombing yet another sovereign nation.

But by at least offering a regionally accredited MBA degree program to those who can scrape together the funds to participate adds a certain element of hope and possibility.

What distinguishes this kind of dystopian fiction from its adult counterpart — beyond its being less dire and apocalyptic — is a certain element of earnestness, even preachiness, and the moral is pretty transparent: be yourself.

After a black family bought a house on Ray's block, an unredeemed neighbor complained to him that "a certain element" was taking over, and the word "element" immediately entered our lexicon as an irresistibly sublime piece of swamp-think.

"We wanted to transport our brand image to reflect what the Red Bull brand is all about: We are fast, we are on the leading edge of technology, we are extreme in many respects, but we also have a certain element of self-irony, and we are a bit controversial," said Mitsch, an Austrian.

"These other bands have been set up to be fake, they are not trying to sell the real thing whereas with this new Sugababes line-up there is a certain element of the management and label trying to pull the wool over people's eyes," argues Peter Robinson, editor of music website Popjustice.

Although, at the same time it detracts from a certain element of affection, connection, and in consequence, respect for the other person as a human being with their own three-dimensional story, fears, and fantasies.

"There is a certain element of Big Brother to it, and I'm not sure I'd use CCTV to spy on my chefs, but it's different when you've got an operation that big," he says.