Sentence examples for described at best from inspiring English sources

If we take him at his word, there seems to be little point in studying the history of societies that can be described at best by intelligent speculation, and then only for certain places and times, like fourth-century Athens.

Such expressions of what can be described at best as cautious optimism reflect Brazil's continued vulnerability to events outside its control, such as a potential stock market plunge in the United States, a collapse of the new Government in Russia, or a reversal in the improving fortunes of the Japanese yen.

With what could be described, at best, as a kind of slinky grace (and at worst, pretentious posturing), the dancers, obscured by Roderick Murray's severe lighting, walked in slow motion, stretched their limbs to form solitary silhouettes and crawled around the piano.

"To consider banning taxis from Tottenham Court Road could be described at best as farcical," he said.

After what could be described, at best, as a decent start to the holiday season, indications are that sales have already started to tail off.

As Mike explains, the process was very fair at the beginning but after an odd period of "investigation" the decision to shut down his account can be described, at best, as ridiculous.

The data set allows us to relate the demand for freight transport to the economic characteristics of shippers ; The data set encompasses complete transport chains, from origin to the final destination, whereas most transport surveys describe at best single routes, but do not follow a good that undergoes several successive shipments in different vehicles or on different transport modes.

Geometric morphometrics shape analysis (see, [33]) is based on 14 landmarks (Figure S1, Table S3) chosen to describe at best the calvarium morphology, while taking into consideration the state of preservation of the fossils.

Since all the analyses suggested a variation of HEV IgG prevalence over time, we carried out an additional analysis to improve the inferential power of the model for describing at best this observation (figure 2).

In 2017, NHS England issued guidance instructing doctors not to hand out prescriptions for homeopathic treatments, which chief executive Simon Stevens described as "at best a placebo" and "a misuse of scarce NHS funds".

Gwyneth, with the kind of self-centred self-righteousness that only Hollywood A-listers can master, decided that if she needs to follow this medically dubious "elimination" diet (a diet one doctor has already described as "at best non-evidence-based hope, and at worst plain old malpractice"), then so does everyone else in the world.