Sentence examples for best a total from inspiring English sources

"He is – at best – a total irrelevancy", says Jerusalem-born Dr Ghada Karmi of Exeter University.

But as a system it is at best a total letdown.

While the BBC have absolutely no excuse for what was, at best, a total lapse in journalistic ethics and principles, Lord McAlpine's identity may not have been exposed in the public domain in the past due to the discipline imposed on the mainstream press media by our libel laws.

Scottish Chambers of Commerce chief executive Liz Cameron accused the SNP administration of "demonstrating, at best, a total lack of understanding of the pressures facing businesses in Scotland today".

From the poor ergonomics of the controller and a slow 8-bit processor, to clunky software that sometimes didn't work at all (until you blew into the game cartridge), the NES was at its best, a total pain to use correctly.

Phil was the best, a total pro.

And though he was nominated eight times by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as best director, a total bested only by William Wyler, all of his films were well and truly written before they were anything else.

Decades followed each other — thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty began to extend the bliss of fifty — and then came my cancers, Jane's death [i.e, his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon], and over the years I traveled to another universe.

Decades followed each other — thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty — and then came my cancers, Jane's death, and over the years I travelled to another universe.

Consortium named C5 was the most promising and reached as best result a total hydrocarbon biodegradation of 93.5% in the experimental design and reached levels of degradation optimized on trial in the bioreactor for the constituents of the marine fuel MF-380.

Theaters in the United States like the New Victory have become beachheads for this kind of work, but the economics of audience size — "Egg and Spoon," for instance, works best with a total audience of 30, including kids and guardians — give Europe's state-financed theaters an edge.