Sentence examples for detects a certain from inspiring English sources

While it plays, and off-air, Mairead detects a certain over-enthusiasm in the voice of her DJ partner.

Ms. Manji detects a certain incoherence in Ms. Hirsi Ali's views: "She wants Muslims to reform, but she also seems to believe that Islam is inherently retrograde".

After hearing her sing for the first time, Cosme tells Flo that he detects "a certain want of accuracy," and the same could be said of the play.

Chromi": E. coli that is programmable to turn one of five colors when it detects a certain concentration of an environmental toxin.

It's not that he disses the movie (well, he kind of does...) or decries Hollywood and all its artifice (no, wait, he does that, too) - but one detects a certain straining against the destiny that seems laid down before him.

Hannibal Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini Directed by Ridley Scott R 131 minutes The nose -- a specialist with an ultrakeen olfactory sense -- brought in to help trace the whereabouts of the fugitive Hannibal Lecter (Mr. Hopkins) detects a certain scent on a communication from Lecter to the F.B.I. agent Clarice Starling (Ms. Moore).

In wireless sensor networks used for detection applications, sensors communicate to detect a certain phenomenon.

But I do detect a certain complacency setting in.

Earlier, Susanne's husband had detected a certain ticking in her, a bomb.

I detect a certain amount of tiredness amongst some of these fighters.

One critic (me) had detected a certain opulent vacuity in his work around that time.