Sentence examples for an honest enough from inspiring English sources

This is a workmanlike movie that is never quite scary enough, and never quite ingenious enough, though the four leads do an honest enough job.

That's an honest enough admission about the culpability of the financial community in bundling the toxic derivatives packages still disastrously undermining the economic health of the nation.

If it is used as a get-out-of-jail card (no pun intended) because of a legal issue, because his feet are to the fire, or for some similar reason, then this is not an honest enough and thoughtful enough foundation to merit yet another go-round.

In cricket there is still the occasional batsman (rarely an Australian) honest enough to "walk" without waiting for the umpire's decision.

The famously unfettered Conservative minister Alan Clark refashioned that formula later, putting it up a notch or two in the mendacity league by telling the Matrix Churchill hearing on arms sales to Iraq that in answering parliamentary questions he'd been "economical with the actualité" – an answer honest enough to cause the trial to collapse.

If you believe in laissez faire, you must believe in having a government honest enough to insure that no advantage is being bought by political contributions.

Though a bullied child, she is a discriminating reader, honest enough to admit to the beastly clergyman Brocklehurst that she does not like Psalms, because they are "not interesting".

The exchange reveals much: first, people care for this "Wonder Woman of American letters" as friend and writer; second, misery unsettles identities and at this point Oates, author of more than 50 novels, does not see herself primarily as a novelist; third, she is honest enough sometimes to paint a quite unattractive self-portrait.

I think our music is honest enough in an underground sense, so I'm not bothered by that.

Although a lot of people are honest enough to say they don't know enough about it, among those who think they do, the government's assurances about the innocuousness of the new constitution are not believed.

The Bush that Bush wants to present is a decent man, personally courteous, honest enough to admit his flaws – including his boorishness back when he was a heavy drinker, once asking an elegant female friend of his parents, "So what's sex like after 50?" – and who did what he thought was right.