Sentence examples for basically a minute from inspiring English sources

Yet, the longest book and the one that tells the most about the Byzantine mentality (and most particularly the mind of the writer) is De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae, basically a minute description of the elaborate ceremonial and processions that made the emperor a hieratic symbol of the state and strove to impress foreigners with his grandeur.

Tomlin's very NSFW speech (which you can find on YouTube) was basically a minute long rant against the Patriots (and their Microsoft Surface hating coach Bill Belichick), who the Steelers will play next week.

It's basically a four minute long Hollywood epic, recalling a supposed golden era of colonial Africa and the wonderful adventures of chiseled white men flying planes over zebras and stuff.

It's basically a 4 minute ode to the out-of-body joys of strobes and looks like something you'd see in deep, dank, dark parts of YouTube where the playcount's barely hit double figures.

"I just visited my grandmother, and basically a 10-minute drive took me an hour and a half," said Maite Lázaro, from Guaynabo, a town outside the capital San Juan.

There was basically an hour and forty minutes, and while a lot of people didn't make it out, a lot of people did".

"Lansky," a one-man show starring Mike Burstyn, is basically a 75-minute apologia for a life of crime.

Perhaps this is too much pressure to put on the filmed version of what was basically a 75-minute staged seminar.

Mr. Wong may be a master of color and composition, but this is basically a 90-minute vacation slide show with an O.K. soundtrack.

The parade aria from the youthful "Ascanio in Alba" is basically a 10-minute routine of unbroken fioratura, which naturally tires a voice.

Cut to an extended 12-string-guitar solo by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, "Street" is basically a 72-minute exercise in people watching, the kind one might do while sitting on a stoop, except here the watcher is in motion and the watched nearly at a halt.