Sentence examples for hardly brave from inspiring English sources

Her silence is hardly brave, but it does reflect the realities of a divided party.

This is brash, but hardly brave; as an estimation of "the two best writers around," it is rather quaint.

I assume his opposition to the Iraq war was sincere, although it was hardly brave, given the state of opinion polls in 2002-03.

He was hardly a brave leader, yet his decision to oppose Blair on Iraq was courageous and important and, in the light of events since, absolutely right.

It was, after all, in early 1999, a time when it was impossible to ignore Internet hype; Mr Welch was hardly a brave pioneer.

Into that category fall many of their "policy" loans to once-favoured companies, now bust.So it is hardly a brave new world for South Korea's banks, and it is not certain their managers can cope.

Enemy, for example, mimics the rhythm of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and self-consciously apes a Velvet Underground guitar freakout: it's a fantastic guitar pop song, but it's hardly a brave new sound.

She hardly resembled the brave 22-year-old woman with a pretty smile and thick chestnut locks.

While hardly a move into brave new musical pastures, it's not without charm and the use of a female voice puts just enough distance between this and the original, the entwining harmonies recalling Gram Parsons's duets with Emmylou Harris.

But shutting down family reunification, which has also been a means by which rootless newcomers become rooted, hardly seems like the bravest, or most American, of answers.

In the end, she spoke up for libraries, which was both brave (it's hardly the sexiest of subjects, or at least not for a black tie crowd of B-list celebs) and timely.