Sentence examples for almost punitive from inspiring English sources

Baumbach seemed to be revelling in futility; the film was grating, almost punitive.

It's a perverse, almost punitive set, leaning heavily on new album Hesitation Marks and other recent material, omitting anthems such as "Closer", "Hurt" and "Head Like a Hole".

She had begun drinking heavily in the late thirties, and an almost punitive honesty, mixed perhaps with guilt, fuelled her work.

Apart from Bruce Greenwood's roistering performance — he might be the star of a Wild West show — the movie is almost punitive to sit through.

Many Israeli leaders, on the left as well as the right, are today calling for a kind of forced, almost punitive, disengagement by Israel from the Palestinians.

"Never Let Me Go" is set in a boarding school called Hailsham, and flatly narrated, in a style of almost punitive blandness, by a young woman named Kathy.

But over the last three decades, rather than seeking a balance, the American approach has become almost entirely punitive: we have the second-highest rate of incarceration in the world (after Russia), and are the only prominent Western democracy with the death penalty.

"To love and selfies!" young women exclaim, toasting one another at a restaurant, and there are times when the movie feels almost too punitive for its own good — as though the parents, in their moral fecklessness, deserved to be stripped of their offspring.

How we invest our money and resources is a testament to the kind of nation we will ultimately manifest, and our almost exclusively punitive approach to dealing with conflict sets a tone that should be challenged.

Such warnings are almost always resolved without punitive action.

That put further pressure on Thursday's emergency EU summit, with the Europeans almost obliged to impose punitive measures on Russia.