Sentence examples for fairish from inspiring English sources

Sir Tim Lankester, a former British civil servant who played a central role in the affair, has now produced a gripping account of what Douglas Hurd, Britain's foreign secretary from 1989-95, called, with typically patrician understatement "a fairish nightmare".The project entailed at least three separate scandals.

The project was – in the words of the British foreign secretary who presided over it for six years – "a fairish nightmare".

In truth, it would probably prefer that they get a fairish trial somewhere else than have to deal with them at home.As for progress in Iraq, Downing Street is irritated with the Pentagon's rhetoric and reluctance to heed advice.

There was a fairish six innings (two earned runs, seven strikeouts) from a slimmer C. C. Sabathia, and a surprise three-run third-inning clout into the right field by Mark Teixeira, who's never comfortable at the plate until about Bastille Day.

The real Lawrence (1888-1935) was barely 5ft 5in tall, stocky, fairish, with a pronounced jaw.

So, not the whole world perhaps, but - allowing for the hype - a fairish slice of continuing media interest.

Presently a lean, bespectacled man with fairish hair came over to me, with a few students drifting up behind him.

Straightforward copies, painted in oil on canvas, are installed alongside craft-fairish versions, executed in beans or needlepoint.

There is, for one thing, little privacy, no art-fairish partitions to give each nonprofit its own nook.