Sentence examples for extreme instance that from inspiring English sources

Entitled "Still Loony," the chapter is an extreme instance that typifies a major problem, one that worsens as the book proceeds: because he wants to get everything in, including hundreds of dropped names, Townshend can't take the time to make much come alive.

Muammar el-Qaddafi's threat in March to unleash a bloodbath in rebel-held Benghazi was just the kind of extreme instance that R2P's framers had in mind.

For this instance, that's 21.6.

A more extreme instance of a polis that was never fully synoecized in the physical sense was Sparta, which, as Thucydides elsewhere says, remained "settled by villages in the old Greek way".

A more extreme instance of a polis that was never fully synoecized in the physical sense was Sparta, which, as Thucydides elsewhere says, remained "settled by villages in the old Greek way". It was an act of conscious arrogance, a way of claiming to be invulnerable from attack and not to need the walls that Thucydides again and again treats as the sign and guarantee of civilized polis life.

Iago is an extreme instance of the kind: that is to say, of diseased intellectual activity, with the most perfect indifference to moral good or evil, or rather with a decided preference of the latter, because it falls more readily in with this favourite propensity, gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions".

They took Lamarck's idea to grotesque extremes by claiming, for instance, that cuckoos repeatedly emerged de novo from eggs of small birds as a particularly remarkable adaptation.

However, the strength of the putative bias in rates of gene conversion seems extreme and appears implausible, requiring for instance that the rates of forward and reverse mutations be different by over a hundred-fold [ 33].

That must have been an extreme instance.

The old Broadway insisted that its stars have that extra something -- in both presence and sheer talent -- that was so extreme, in many instances, that it bordered on the freakish.

California is an extreme instance.