Sentence examples for almost capable of from inspiring English sources

Why is it overparenting to do for your child what he or she is almost capable of?

Madeline Levine ("Raising Successful Children," Sunday Review, Aug. 5) says "the happiest, most successful children have parents who do not do for them what they are capable of doing, or almost capable of doing".

I read part of it out loud to my husband last night: The happiest, most successful children have parents who do not do for them what they are capable of doing, or almost capable of doing; and their parents do not do things for them that satisfy their own needs rather than the needs of the child.

The happiest, most successful children have parents who do not do for them what they are capable of doing, or almost capable of doing; and their parents do not do things for them that satisfy their own needs rather than the needs of the child.

It is likely that Miss Churchill's vehicle would amuse her illustrious parent in much the same manner as he is entertained by the machinations of the Labour Party, but I dont think he could help being pleased by her performance in it since she is an actress of unusual grace, charm, and intelligence, almost capable of disguising the spectacular monotony and foolishness of her part.

A very fine nanotextured silicon surface was achieved which is almost capable of 98% light trapping in the visible spectral range after complete hierarchical surface passivation (surface hydrogenation and SiNx:H antireflection coating deposition).

These predators were almost certainly capable of killing the largest of their herbivorous contemporaries.

At first, even the need for post-war relief and rehabilitation was under-rated, having been seen "almost as capable of being met by semi-private charity".

The economy, he concluded, was almost certainly capable of higher levels of growth without inflation than in the past because of a sharp gain in the advance of productivity, the basic measure of business efficiency.

They said he was almost scarily capable of doing the right thing at precisely the moment his team needed it — and the volleyed goal that broke the Dutch resistance in Johannesburg became inarguably the demonstration of that.

As anyone who has heard his recent solo work can tell you, urban producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley's genius functions intermittently, but on a good day, he is almost uniquely capable of balancing ineffable pop nous with an intuitive avant-garde sensibility.