Sentence examples for deliberately short from inspiring English sources

The report itself is deliberately short and accessible.

She is keeping the meeting deliberately short to prevent her parents learning too much about him.

The rest of the sermon, though, was deliberately short on gags.

Harmison though is a different proposition, gaining steepling lift and some lateral movement without recourse to anything too deliberately short.

The characteristics of the current tyres make it hard even for the smoothest drivers, such as Jenson Button, to nurse them once they've reached the limit of their deliberately short life.

He took on board how Yasir targets the stumps and pads, inviting batsmen, when he pitches deliberately short, to cut or hit across the line, rather than recognise the bowler's skill in hurrying the delivery on.

Sometimes you get the frustrating sense that strong ideas are being deliberately short-circuited in the pursuit of a slightly self-conscious weirdness.

We have, in short, tried to take the cinematic mechanism apart to see what makes it run; we have deliberately short-circuited the directors' best attempts to make us give up our imaginations into their hands.

Of course, some fielders still try to create a scuff: Catchers may deliberately short-hop their throws before innings, and outfielders may do the same on routine throws to the infield.

On Monday, when the pope was the host at a customary reception for high-ranking members of Vatican departments, the guest list was substantially and deliberately shorter than in previous years, a Vatican official said.

An inspection of the boiler serving the family's bungalow found it had been incorrectly installed and a safety cut-off device had been deliberately short-circuited.