Sentence examples for faintly successful from inspiring English sources
Compared with 25 years ago, when pre-Reagan tax rates clobbered anyone even faintly successful, or even 16 years ago, when Walter Mondale quixotically campaigned for a fiscal hike, the tax climate may not be flat but it's surely flatter.
Dead Long Enough James Hawes (Vintage, £6.99) Buy it at a discount at BOL In which we learn how truly dreadful it is to be a rather successful but faintly balding man facing his 40th birthday.
In the wake of Alice Sebold's phenomenally successful debut novel, The Lovely Bones, a faintly unwholesome new sub-genre seems in danger of emerging.
A figure such as Robert Macfarlane becomes in the public eye both a successful and widely admired author, and a spiritual role model of faintly druidic mien.
My attempt to deflect attention from its deficiencies by sticking sparklers into the crevices was not entirely successful either; the chocolate started to melt, distorting the ladybird's cheery face into something faintly nightmarish.
That a faintly ridiculous row over hunting – laden with class baggage and emblematic of the Tory toff – was such a successful battleground for the SNP highlights one of the key features of Scottish politics today.
Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.
Barnes looks faintly harassed.
His eyes blinked faintly.
Klitschko smiled faintly.
