Sentence examples for hardly called for from inspiring English sources

But then she realized her urban aerie hardly called for a fake country touch.

The painter's sculptural leanings most curiously come out in his cartoons for tapestries, which, by nature, hardly call for three-dimensional effect.

Livni, after all, is eager to appear more influential than Netanyahu in the West and to replace him as custodian of the crucial American relationship; she can hardly call for an American-imposed solution.

"I'm confident what's set up will work so therefore I can hardly call for a public inquiry to substitute for it".

Just to state the trivial and obvious: the field of PND and selective abortion is not new – in spite of the fact that the range of techniques is constantly expanding – and is therefore hardly calling for any pioneers in the classical sense.

Barner's mother hardly called him for two weeks.

But the contractor he works for has hardly called him in recent months.

But hardly anyone called for that.

The Lobster, which screened this morning, is a dystopian tale of a future where single people must find a mate in a creepy hotel within a certain time or face transformation into wild animals and, even those who didn't like it, can hardly call it a bid for the mainstream.

But one can hardly call this a victory for the union side.* The custom in America has been to use the expected rate of return on assets as the discount rate.

Lions, to use his example, do not torment gazelles, because torment requires malice; we could hardly call a lion malicious for acquiring sustenance with the only means it possesses.