Sentence examples for hardly desired from inspiring English sources
It happened in training camp, when Ryan described Smith's play during one error-laden practice as brutal, and it happened again Sunday, when he rejected the notion that Smith's penchant for turnovers — 10 in four games — was a normal, if hardly desired, aspect of the development of a first-year quarterback.
"I myself would not like to live surrounded by the kind of culture Dr. Wertham could thoroughly approve of," he wrote, "and what I would not like for myself I would hardly desire for Paul.
But realism is hardly the desired effect.
Toss in her supposed involvement in the Alaska Independence Party, which advocates the state's secession from the Union; her 17-year-old daughter Bristol's unwed pregnancy; and her husband's DWI 22 years ago and the picture painted is hardly the desired one of conservative family values.
As for myself, I can hardly deny desiring an audience after I finished my journey into solitude and returned to the world.
The interior design of a discotheque would hardly be appropriate for a research library, and a college classroom would hardly provide the desired atmosphere for a kindergarten.
Legal proceedings against former communist politicians (few of which ended with convictions) hardly achieved the desired function of clearing up and catharsis.
Available evidence suggests that, while the NHS is loved by the public, the service from GPs and dentists (essentially private contractors) leaves much to be desired – hardly a promising omen for the future.
When Shanghai Bobby inherited the lead from the tiring front-runner well before they entered the final turn in the 1 1/16-mile contest, it was hardly the situation Napravnik desired.
Indeed everyone felt that a more splendid series of scenes had seldom, if ever, been witnessed in a Manchester theatre, while the music was interpreted in a manner which left hardly anything to be desired.
It is noteworthy that the use of substoichiometric amounts of phenol was required to avoid formation of diaryl phosphoramidate byproducts that are hardly separable from the desired product.
