Sentence examples for but capable from inspiring English sources

This is a crew attracted to roving abstraction but capable of tight focus and brisk concision.

As a shaggy but capable five-piece, they managed some likable grooves.

He was an intensely shy, soft-spoken, man, but capable of decisive, occasionally ruthless, action.

These humane responses are living seeds, a little buried perhaps but capable of a great flowering.

At 80, Sir Roger is a trencherman, not shaken but capable of being stirred.

He was refreshingly detached, rather ornate in style, but capable of vivid narrative and description.

Most of these are moderate by instinct but capable of being vindictive.

Sirenians in general are slow-moving but capable of short bursts of speed.

His prose is loose-jointed, colloquial, relaxed-looking but capable of piercing accuracy.

This made Federer a somewhat uninteresting person, nearly self-less, but capable of unimaginable physical grace.

Not only willing--but capable, too.