Sentence examples for elastic standards from inspiring English sources

Her mother, Rhoda, an Irish beauty, was considered an eccentric even by the elastic standards of the British Isles.

By today's elastic standards of taste it is hard to imagine how shocking Rickles was 35 years ago, blasting TV's determined peachy-keenness with his razor-sharp digs.

Even by the elastic standards that prevailed then, this sort of "reporting" was bound to draw the disapproving eye of Twain's editor.

And there is indeed the ghost of something lovely in the landscape, where the beaches curve north to the Russian border".It is a normal town, but blown up a bit"But to call Sukhumi "normal", even by the elastic standards of the Caucasus, is stretching things.

BTK would determine what falls into each classification, using its elastic standards of morality.

He grimaced; twitched, sniffed, gulped water and, toward the end, seemed too weary to make much sense even by his own elastic standards.

It was a decidedly lawyerly and elastic standard.

"But reasonable doubt is an elastic standard, and it seems to work in favor of whites much more often than it does blacks.

The Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit agricultural watchdog group that reveals industrial practices within the elastic organic standards, began rating eggs over five years ago.

In terms of PR, even by the elastic moral standards of Renaissance plutocrats the Borgias were to fornication and torture what the Medicis were to the flowering of the arts.

But even by Nevada's often elastic civic standards, having the state's premier daily in the hands of one of the Republican Party's biggest donors has pushed journalistic boundaries into unfamiliar territory.