Sentence examples for easily devolved from inspiring English sources

Had the Nov. 17 strike succeeded, Israel's latest clash with Palestinian fighters, then in its fourth day, could have easily devolved into a protracted and devastating ground war.

And while accounts of the "other" part of the rock lifestyle could have easily devolved into that song "88 Lines About 44 Women," and we do get a lot of details about breast size and shape, the women here nevertheless come across as a coherent armature in a blurrily indulgent time, like Patty Oldenburg, Claes's ex, who gave Hell a crash course in art-world sophistication.

Adams earned critical accolades for her work in Junebug; Carina Chocano of Los Angeles Times noted, "Adams' performance in a role that could have easily devolved into caricature is complex and nuanced".

"I like working on photographic projects where the subject matter of which could easily devolve into cliché," Mr. Friedman said.

"One of my problems with it is that it can so easily devolve into barked commands," Schwalbe wrote.

Wit can be effective but can too easily devolve into cleverness without some toughing edge of weirdness.

Analysts worry that unless these programs are run with discipline, they could easily devolve into corrupt bailouts.

Rather than place the scene in, say, the doctor's office, where it could easily devolve into redundancy and heavy-handedness, Whole Foods kept it grounded in a familiar, upbeat locale.

Between her and her "c" word of a boss Quinn (Constance Zimmer, her venality at eleven), the show could easily devolve into a mere cruel soap, its own guilty pleasure.

But while the relationship with one's predecessors may begin with a kind of remote affection, it can easily devolve into something more fraught, often on account of their ad hoc home improvements.

It is a novel that takes every theme, narrative technique and preoccupation of the author and turns it inside out, revealing how qualities that have established Mr. Amis as one of the foremost stylists of his generation can easily devolve into self-indulgence and mannerism; how daring choices in subject matter and form can mutate into mere grossness and hollow pretension.