Sentence examples for announced rather from inspiring English sources

With that in mind, David Morris, one of Mr Livingstone's advisers, announced rather grandly that "the end of the Routemaster marks the end of transport apartheid".

"Every movie becomes, for me, autobiographical," Mr. Bertolucci announced rather gratuitously in 1977, right before the American premiere of his vexed epic "1900".

Mental states are too often simply announced rather than evoked: "Something was going wrong in Will's psyche"; "Rowan seems perturbed by this information"; "Helen is raw with shame".

But then the people at the Quicken Loans Arena, where the Convention will be held, announced, rather alarmed, that their rule against heavily armed spectators was fixed.

I just see the country being raped," he announced rather incongruously when invited to discuss his passion for West Ham on talkSPORT.

Lord O'Donnell, formerly Britain's top civil servant, said it would be better if ministers spent their time implementing policy that had already been announced rather than changing too much in the last 10 months before the election.

"Please welcome me to the stage," he announces rather hurriedly at the beginning.

She's a bit of a Bond villain, the Waif, anticipating and describing and announcing rather than killing.

The opening credits of Joel and Ethan Coen's new film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," announce rather grandly that the picture is "based upon 'The Odyssey,' by Homer".

Then in January the History Channel dropped the project, their first attempt at a scripted drama, announcing, rather portentously, that: "this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand" and referring to it as "historical fiction".

As I walk to collect my dinner, it can be somewhat off-putting to be met by kitchen staff who announce, rather loudly, that "the vegan is here" in need of her "special meal" of tinned mushrooms and a fruit cocktail.