Sentence examples for began somewhat from inspiring English sources

While developments in Bengali literature began somewhat earlier, they followed the same general course as those in Hindi.

On May 26 the opera house's short season began somewhat unimaginatively with a traditional production of Puccini's "La Bohème".

This is a lofty description of something that began, somewhat whimsically, with a forty-eight-page, paperbound booklet called "Twentysix Gasoline Stations".

The poem was untitled, and began somewhat less ringingly, with a version of what was subsequently to become the second line.

The fictional journey from rural Wales to Cairo that separates the two winning novels echoes Thomas's own story; one that began somewhat sedately, but has latterly embraced far-flung adventure.

Opting for the eight-course tasting menu, dinner on a September Saturday began somewhat surprisingly with green-pea custard garnished with peas in a pod and mint syrup and ice, a dish that was garden-party pretty but as intricately imagined and assembled as a Fabergé egg.

"Le Bateau Ivre" begins, somewhat abruptly, in the voice of the boat.

In the seventies, I did begin, somewhat ambitiously, to build my own library.

"My favourite is Dutch Eredivisie side NAC Breda," he begins somewhat unconvincingly.

It begins somewhat portentously with a plaintive pair of questions: "Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?

Though the book begins somewhat in the shadow of its obvious precursor, W. G. Sebald, it easily develops its own identity.