Sentence examples for caught something of a from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Carter's national standing, buoyed initially by the Iranian hostage crisis, began to fade again in March 1980, Mr. Kennedy caught something of a second wind, eventually winning 12 states, but he lost the nomination after a floor flight at the Democratic Convention.

Paton had caught something of a lucky break Special Counsel Jackson (his co-accused) was intimately connected with the Attorney General's office, and AG Manson, likely fearful of the effect Jackson's conviction would have on his own political career, gave his associate a stay of execution.

A Variety critic tells me that Sergio does catch something of a new mood, mournful but in quest of something to admire.

Her tales of food-bank Britain caught something of the spirit of the times, a make-do-and-mend heroine for the cut-the-deficit George Osborne years.

Maybe a different composer, such as Jonathan Dove, could have caught something of the novel's squalid eerieness.

Jhumpa Lahiri, a British-born writer of Indian descent living in America, catches something of this in her novel, "The Namesake".

In the tone of, say, Jonathan Franzen, we catch something of the elegiac.

Instead, as I pulled my horse over a ridge westward, my eye caught something on the top of a low mountain across a valley.

But, for the most part, Kopple takes us places for only a brief stopover: a scene of sport fishermen shouting "Yeah, baby!" whenever they catch something segues into a clip of a heavyset old black woman in a parking lot putting a catfish she just caught into a plastic bucket.

Because then it's all about 2014 anyway... SD After the long period of expansion inertia caused by the New York bottleneck, Orlando City were just one of many teams held in a holding pattern, and caught in something of a Catch-22 situation regarding a potential MLS standard stadium.

But at the Paley you can catch something nearly as illuminating: a video of a panel discussion about the show, from 2004, following its first season.