Sentence examples for hardly pure from inspiring English sources

Not bad (two years earlier, half as much was seized) but it was hardly pure profit.

"This campaign of yours is hardly pure," Mr Dean said recently.

As a whistle-blower, Merrell Williams Jr.'s character and motives were hardly pure.

McClendon's motivations were hardly pure; he knew that preventing new coal plants meant more demand for his company's product, natural gas.

But when the questioning moved on to another issue, Mr. Santorum circled back to point out that Mr. Romney, who had gone from supporting abortion rights to opposing them, was hardly pure on the issue: "By the way, I just want to add that when I was standing up behind Arlen Specter, Mitt Romney was pro-choice," Mr. Santorum said.

Here, CPE is commonly used to replace capacitance because it is hardly pure capacitance in the real electrochemical process and it is defined by admittance Y and power index number n, given by Y = Y0 (jω) n.

This comparison understates the problem, too, because SAT scores are hardly a pure measure of merit.

With its pop-culture imagery and playful inclusion of jazz, rock and funk, Mr. Daugherty's music could hardly be called pure in any sense of the word.

That fantastic blue was set against a pure and hardly less fantastic whiteness.

The decades that followed were hardly an idyll of pure food and flawless regulation.

The sky was a pure blue — hardly a cloud in it, and not a hint of smog.