Sentence examples for ever being much from inspiring English sources

"You paid £20 and you brought your own jokes!" Manford riposted, after leaving a silence for his heckler to elaborate on an obvious, albeit well-timed cry of "Twitter!" Manford was more creative than his detractors, without ever being much more than workmanlike.

The record indicates that Lake Alaotra has been in existence for at least 30,000 years, with evidence of climatically-driven fluctuations but no evidence of the lake ever being much larger or having occupied the entire floor of the topographic basin.

Not that a tart had ever been much good, any more than the elderly waitress would have been.

Karol Sikora is a cancer specialist I wouldn't ever be much soothed by anything Sartre wrote.

"Deep down, I don't think he expected I'd ever be much more than a secretary.

None of this is especially surprising or scandalous, and it's naive to think public intellectual life in a closely-divided democracy will ever be much different.

Hawthorne was not pro-slavery, but he was constitutionally opposed to enthusiasm and doubted the world could ever be much improved.

They quickly develop resistance to the drugs that are thrown at them, suggesting that no one drug will ever be much use in itself.

We are no more landlords of our fate than we ever were, much though we may have increased our sense of being overseers of our own — and everyone else's — earthly estate.

"YES BRUCE NAUMAN," the enthusiastic title of the exceptional if very male group show at Zwirner & Wirth, prompts a question: Has there ever been much in the way of "no" to Bruce Nauman?

Betty Meyers, the lonely Navy wife looking after three young kids in "Evening on the Côte d'Azur," loathes France and wants to return home to New Jersey, but she won't fool herself that things will ever be much better.