Sentence examples for barely directed from inspiring English sources

His comments after the game were barely directed at Skomina, but at Arsène Wenger, his Arsenal counterpart, and the FA.

This might not be the Titanic of romantic comedies (it's tugboat size), but it's a disaster: cynically made, barely directed, terribly written.

A Complicite show emerges from the barely contained, barely directed chaos of the rehearsal room: "When I read things about what we do, or receive criticism, often I don't recognise the things people are talking about.

It is a splendid little tour de force, never overdone, yet all the while one sensed a barely contained merriment directed by a player toward his character.

Much of Houellebecq's barely concealed rage is directed towards the incapacity of those in the ivory towers to deal with the big questions: religion, sex and death.

Instead, natural settings invoke "soft fascination," a beguiling term for quiet contemplation, during which directed attention is barely called upon and the brain can reset those overstretched resources and reduce mental fatigue.

Even in the EDTA treated samples, NICD was barely detected, using an antibody directed to the C-terminal of Notch1, C-20.

The big impetus for Scottish independence is that under the UK's unitary system, Scotland has barely any direct control over Scottish affairs compared to your bog-standard Canadian province.

The coroner is mischievous and brimming with wit and sarcasm, most of it directed toward hapless and barely competent Communist apparatchiks.

Except for the piquant garnish of Mr. MacLachlan, the movie, written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid, is barely a cut above an amateur production.

One important finding was that normal breast tissue displayed either a complete lack of positivity or barely perceptible labeling with the antibody directed against MMP-9.