Sentence examples for almost an assault from inspiring English sources

Warnock said: "It's almost an assault, how one of the four officials can't be in a position to see that.

Speroni subsequently had to be replaced, with Palace boss Neil Warnock describing the challenge after the match as "almost an assault".

Daubert and its progeny conceived of scientific and technical expert testimony almost as an assault on the courtroom: the innermost citadel of the law.

There will almost inevitably be an assault on dominant narratives on both the Palestinian-Israeli issue and on Islam and Muslims.

When the initial warnings about Kids Company were voiced, first tentatively, then more insistently, they seemed an almost indecent assault on a charity that had gained a status tantamount to national treasure.

The dramatic turning point arrives when Wuornos, driven back to prostitution, picks up a sadist (Vincent Corey) who ties her up and rapes her in an assault almost as horrifying as the rape scene in "Boys Don't Cry".

Here's what I learned about it: the worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they've always happened through American institutions and practices.

In the dining room arrived a pageant of dishes that was an almost hallucinatory assault on the senses.

This is a spectacular and gorgeously created film, with allusions to Harold Lloyd and Fritz Lang, and it's an almost overwhelming assault on the senses from the very first shot: a vision of post-first-world-war Paris which sees the city as one gigantic clockwork contrivance.

That's an almost unfathomable assault on one's sense of identity.

Its juddering din stops you in your tracks, an almost physical assault that crowds out thought.