Sentence examples for barely controllable from inspiring English sources

So I do my best to be proud and unashamed of Thespis, that sloppy, oversized, barely controllable monster.

It's not that you did it, it was that you did it with such barely controllable glee.

Taking his dream girl to a fancy restaurant, Marvin politely excuses himself from the table every few minutes to go to the restroom and vent his barely controllable animal urges in piercing howls.

The only medics still at liberty are dodderers and greenhorns; later, when Stalin's son Vasily Rupert Friendd), a barely controllable drunk, gets to the dacha and confronts them, he is incensed.

At a distance, it seems bizarre that a filmmaker of such well-tempered urbanity was ever considered the right choice for the rousing, barely controllable comic indignation of "Catch-22".

Instead, the angry, starving, part-Spanish, part-Lutheran, barely controllable army marched directly on to Rome, where soldiers poured through the walls and viciously sacked the city — robbing, raping, murdering, and destroying for days on end.

Instead of the silken dresses slithering across the body, barely stitched into controllable garments, there were tailored jackets in speckled tweed, worn mostly with pants and with a definite solidity compared to the designer's previous wisps and drapes.

(Controlling the controllable, Jop Groeneweg 2002).

Teenage girls, schoolgirls, just like your controllable characters.

"I can only control the controllables.

But you can only control the controllables.