Sentence examples for barely asks from inspiring English sources

It doesn't matter that the novel barely asks us to believe any of this (it seems likely that the elderly novelist is losing his wits, and that this is his fond fantasy of paternal ownership); Gilbert spends precious pages on this narrative silliness, and the scene dribbles away.

You're together and he never (or barely) asks you anything about you - good Lord the minutes will tick by slowly with this one - and if not you, what is he interested in, anyway?

He was barely asked to run by the jockey Kent Desormeaux and buried an overmatched field.

The Giants played poorly Thursday night in their preseason opener, but they were barely asked about that yesterday.

England have not helped themselves, barely asking any questions with the ball and heaping the pressure on a notoriously vulnerable batting.

I remember one excruciating meeting at which my interviewer, despite knowing my qualifications and experience before inviting me along, barely asked me a question.

He will not take no for an answer, whether it involves ravishment or a restaurant table; indeed, he will barely ask the question, preferring to bully the world into an exhausted chorus of "yes".

"I barely asked anyone to vote for me".

In fact, throughout the trial, Asaro's defense team did a pretty mediocre job in cross-examination, barely asking the witnesses anything substantial and generally failing to get the attention of jurors.

Because Inventing Mary Martin has nothing on its mind other than sending the subject a love letter (as Justin West projects images of her over her 1913-1990 life span), Adams, Graae, Halliday and Skinner are barely asked to stop short of clutching their hearts as illustration of their devotion--and of Cole's--to the lady.

Just ask Mr. Forrester, barely known outside West Windsor when he ran for the United States Senate in 2002, or Jon Corzine, never heard of beyond Wall Street just four years ago.