Sentence examples for equal measure that from inspiring English sources

This book is intrigued, in seemingly equal measure, that Cheri peels off a girl's Catholic school uniform for the delectation of her customers — and that she imagines she is being guided toward moral redemption by a nun.

There was more to it than just the match, of course, and the Football Association will be relieved and delighted in equal measure that England's supporters refrained from polluting the occasion with the anti-IRA chants heard at previous matches.

There is not even a direct train line to Manchester, despite its being only 30 miles away (although that is on my list of things to do if I'm elected... ) In Brixton, I used to feel depression and wonder in equal measure that the City, that global hub of financial prowess, could be so near and yet so far from the communities I represented.

Reading this book, one is hit again and again with the fact – tragic and astonishing in equal measure – that Banks didn't know he was dying until he'd almost finished the first draft, that the cancer that was the subject matter of his novel would soon become the urgent subject matter of his life.

Marian Fontana's heartfelt, if predictable, "Falling Short" has great one-liners but mines familiar territory to win sympathy for its online-dating heroine; Paul Weitz's "Change" lampoons drug burnouts and the bourgeoisie in such scrupulously equal measure that its criticism of the characters neutralizes itself.

Loki is both systematic and highly intuitive, and Gyllenhaal, looking haggard and eaten up inside, projects decency and obsessiveness in equal measure — that's why he keeps getting cast as a cop in movies.

The intermission-less play has such a furious momentum that weaves humor and horror together in equal measures that left me breathless by the end, admiring not only the tremendous skill on display - Alex Breaux and Lucas Caleb Rooney bring a Cain and Abel ferocity - but the emotional wallop it produces on the level of a Greek tragedy.

Another is Houston, where the City Council approved an equal rights measure that included protections on bathroom use, only to see voters override it in a referendum in November.

It was based on the premise that since all Polish noblemen were equal, every measure that came before the Sejm had to be passed unanimously.

Mujica became the distinction for all that he was, and, almost in equal measure, all that he wasn't.

Exhilarating and exhausting in equal measure – and that just for those watching – England and Australia slugged it out on a day that had been expected to produce runs and instead saw the home side's batting succumb to the sheer endeavour of Peter Siddle, who took five for 50, and then the Australians stumble against the new ball.