Sentence examples for being an exercise from inspiring English sources

This being an exercise in the academic world, there remain some doubters.

The warmth and heart that creeps into Hogan's screenplay saves Muriel's Wedding from being an exercise in emotional flagellation.

What stops it being an exercise in romantic nostalgia is Michael's reminder that in his recollection "atmosphere is more real than incident".

But it was immediately accused of being an exercise in "bluewash", allowing misbehaving firms to improve their image by simply wrapping themselves in the UN's flag.

"As well as a masterpiece, it's probably Harold's most comprehensible play for people worried about Pinter being an exercise in style – which he wasn't," Leveaux says.

Either way, to conceive of the government of Hong Kong as being an exercise in the identification and neutralisation of dissidents or all those deemed to be "unpatriotic" would be profoundly counterproductive.

It's an exercise.

A date is an exercise in adjustment.

For me, it was an exercise.

Rather, this is an exercise in nostalgia.

So that's an exercise in pointlessness.