Sentence examples for a slightly foreign from inspiring English sources

The subtitle of this droll seventy-minute tragicomic jewel is "A Monologue for a Slightly Foreign Man".

Altogether more substantial and fact-filled, "A Year Around the Great Oak" was first published in Germany over two decades ago, and retains a slightly foreign feeling in this English translation.

It's just that it's become a slightly foreign country to me.

I didn't see myself as someone with a slightly foreign accent teaching them how to read T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

I did not feel alien — I was born in this country, as my parents had been, and I donned my Yale sweatshirt without a sense of imposture — but I seized upon the opportunity I'd been granted to learn with an energy that seemed slightly foreign.

Investors are struggling with low alternative yields and for the first time in four years are seeing earnings rise due to a marginal uptick in GDP, a slightly improved foreign earnings outlook, and a modestly weaker dollar.

Leeds (in the West Yorkshire SHA) has a slightly lower foreign presence (5%) with only Liverpool and Sheffield (the Cheshire&Merseyside and South Yorkshire SHAs) among Britain's seven largest cities with very low shares of foreign-trained nurses (less than 4.5% of their potential workforce).

So this is the only country that I know very well, and the only one that I'm a citizen of, but it has also always been slightly foreign, too.

Pfeiffer — who admirably carried off the exotic roles of Madame de Tourvel in "Dangerous Liaisons" and a Soviet damsel in distress in "The Russia House" — makes no attempt at the "trailing slightly foreign accent" Wharton ascribes to Ellen Olenska; instead, she does a kind of Grace Kelly imitation and in moments of urgent expression falls into the laid-back cadences of her native California.

Eno may feel slightly foreign, but he's wholly original.

When you put wooden cabinets in, it always felt slightly foreign.