Sentence examples for exacted a cost from inspiring English sources
But that brilliance exacted a cost from the singers.
That decision to pound home the work's portentousness, exciting as it was, exacted a cost in subtler passages, like the rising and falling chromatic figures that follow soon after the introduction.
He played the outer movements of Beethoven's Sonata No. 1 in F minor (Op. 2, No. 1) with a briskness that seemed reckless at times and that exacted a cost in smudged textures and missed notes.
Effects elicited only in Mixed blocks with adults were found in young children even in single-task blocks; while young children could exercise inhibition in steady state it exacted a cost not seen in adults, who (unlike young children) seemed to re-set their default response when inhibition of the same tendency was required throughout a block.
China has been known to enjoy throwing its weight around, but being big also exacts a cost.
But that approach exacts a cost in the mechanical quality that Antheil wanted, and no doubt in accuracy as well.
At the very least, this will put to rest the common misconception that taking action on climate change exacts a cost to profitability".
That's a polite way of saying that politicians are notorious for their selective use of statistics.Arguably, this dogged pursuit of neutrality exacts a cost.
Then he told her to go see Henry in H.R. Why had he told her to sit down first?" Park's decision to omit all details of the business, however, exacts a cost.
Outdoor concerts by concert bands can be a hard sell these days: the repertory generally has an olden quality, marches and gallops not being especially in vogue now, and the amplification that is usually necessary to help these groups compete with traffic exacts a cost from whatever subtlety the playing may show.
Without ever spelling out the details (any more than Isaac Asimov explained the intricacies of his robots' "positronic brains"), Miéville treats magic as another form of technology, one that follows dimly apprehended rules and that typically exacts a cost greater than its practitioners anticipate.
